Obituary: Heinz D. Janzen – M.Div. graduate 1956

Heinz D. Janzen, 83, died on Wednesday (June 15, 2011) in North Newton.

He was born to the late Peter M. and Mary (Dirks) Janzen on June 19, 1927, in a hospital elevator in New York City, shortly after their arrival in the United States as immigrants from the Ukraine. Heinz grew up in Ontario, Calif., and was baptized in Upland Mennonite Church in Upland, Calif.

Heinz served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 47 as an electronic technician. Following his discharge, he studied at Biola College in Los Angeles; Bethel College in North Newton, where he received a bachelor of arts in history in 1952; and Goshen College in Goshen, Ind., where he received a bachelor of science in education in 1953. He then did graduate work at Goshen Biblical Seminary in Goshen, Ind., and New York Theological Seminary in New York, where he was granted a master of divinity degree in 1956.

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