Samuel E. Entz
Samuel E. Entz, 79, 1000 South Oliver
in Newton, Evangelist and mechanic for Commissions on Overseas
Missions, died Tuesday (May 11, 1999) at Columbia Wesley Medical
Center.
He was born May 21, 1919, in rural
Newton to Bernard W. and Anna (Claassen) Entz. He married Leona Enns
Aug. 12, 1948, in Meade. She survives of Newton.
He was a member of Grace Community
Church in Newton. He attended District 35 Kellas School, one year at
Newton High School, three years at Hesston Academy and graduated from
Grace University in 1949.
He was drafted in Civilian Public
Service Dec. 8, 1941. He served for four years in Dennison, Iowa and
North Platte, Neb. He was founding member and elder of Grace
Community Church for many years. He was a missionary in Zaire where
he was an Evangelist and mechanic. He was an ordained minister in the
General Conference Mennonite Church.
He served on the Advisory Council of
Grace University in Omaha, Neb. After returning from Zaire he had a
mechanic shop at his home.
Other survivors include: two brothers,
Walter B. Entz and Willard C. Entz, both of Newton; and two sisters,
Hilda Busenitz and Edith Harms, both of Newton. He was preceded in
death by two brothers, Daniel E. Entz and William E. Entz; and one
sister, Martha Entz Klaassen.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.
Friday at Grace Community Church with Pastor David Reimer
officiating. Burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5 to 9 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday with family greeting friends from 7 to
8:30 p.m. Thursday at Broadway Colonial Funeral Home.
Memorials have been established with
Grace University in Omaha, Neb., African Inter-Mennonite Mission in
Elkhart, Ind., or Grace Community Church in care of the funeral home.
