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Dyck, Harry (1943-2008)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2008 Jun 16 p. 6
Birth date: 1943
text of obituary:
By Gladys Terichow
Mennonite Central Committee
WINNIPEG, Man. — A Manitoba businessman who supported Mennonite Central Committee projects died June 1 while on an MCC learning tour in Ukraine. Harry Dyck, 65, a partner and manager of Winkler Meats, was part of an eight-member group in Ukraine visiting MCC partner organizations that receive shipments of MCC material resources.
The tour was hosted by the MCC team based in Zaporozhye.
On Sunday morning the learning tour participants and MCC workers had participated in a church service and took communion together with local partners from the Baptist church in Yalta, Crimea. The group was spending the afternoon at the Black sea.
Dyck was the first one to go into the water. When the group noticed he was floating face down, he was quickly brought to shore and given CPR.
An autopsy determined he had suffered a heart attack.
Dyck is well known in Manitoba for bringing the MCC mobile meat canner to the province and allowing hundreds of volunteers to take over the meat processing facility for a week once a year to process 22,500 cans of meat for distribution in Ukraine and many other countries.
"His contributions to meat canning are amazing," said Wilf Unrau, tour leader and manager of MCC Canada's warehouse in Plum Coulee, Man. He said Dyck was "one of those guys who believe that somehow we can make things work."
