Dyck, Henry Janzen (1880-1970)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 30 Jul 1970 p. 2

Birth date: 1880

text of obituary:

Aged Retired Elder, Board Member, Dies

Rev. H. J. Dyck, 90, for 50 years a member of the Herald Publishing Co. board of directors and writer of the widely read and appreciated Review Column, "Messages for the Heart," died Sunday at 5:20 p.m. in Bethel Deaconess Hospital after an illness of several months.

Rev. Dyck was yet able to attend the Herald Publishing Co. 50th Anniversary Observance in the Newton First Mennonite Church on Sunday afternoon, June 28, an occasion he had looked forward to with much anticipation.

Born May 31, 1880, at Unter- Laakendorf, Germany, he came to America with his parents in 1893 and grew up to young manhood at the family home near Elbing, Kan. He was elected minister, and later elder of the Zion Mennonite Church, a position in which he served until his retirement in 1952. He was active in various phases of District and General Conference work and was president of the Bethel Deaconess Hospital and Home for Aged board of directors for 10 years.

He is survived by his aged wife, an invalid in Bethel Home for Aged, Walter and Martha Dyck, Henderson, Nebr., and Dorothea of the home; also a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at the Zion Church in Elbing, conducted by Rev. Harold Graber, pastor of the church.