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Funeral Service Wednesday for Vernon Dennis
EDMONTON, AB (August 4, 2003) - A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m.
Wednesday, August 6, for Vernon Dennis, a retired missionary of the
Evangelical Covenant Church who died Friday, August 1.
The service will be held at the Evangelical Covenant Church, 8503 82nd
Avenue, Edmonton. Internment will be at the Malmo Covenant Church cemetery
about 60 miles south of Edmonton.
Dennis and his wife, Vangie, were called in 1954 for medical service in
Congo, according to records in the Department of World Mission. "Their
first term was spent at Karawa where Vern was very busy - one record day he
did 13 surgeries!" recalls staff member Eileen Thorpe. "Besides this, he
was a very good handyman and cared for the station vehicles, radios, etc.
After Independence in 1960, he returned alone (wives were not permitted
back) with wife and children joining nine months later, being stationed at
the Wasolo hospital temporarily, then Karawa again." They returned to
Chicago where he was in private practice at Swedish Covenant Hospital from
1965 until his retirement. The couple moved to Canada in 1997.
"He had a reputation for being very kind and generous," Thorpe said. "And
he had the very first electric car that I can recall ever seeing," she
added. "He was quite a tinkerer."
"On behalf of the Evangelical Covenant Church and our world mission
department, I want to thank our Lord and Savior for this gifted colleague
who shared his life with so many on two continents," said John C.
Notehelfer, interim executive minister of the Department of World Mission.
"I know that our African brothers and sisters who remember the 1960s have
loved ones who have tasted of Vern and Vangie's love and healing touch."
The couple were members of North Park Church in Chicago for more than 20
years. It is suggested that those desiring to send memorial gifts directed
them to the Covenant's Department of World Mission, the Cross Cancer
Institute or to a charity of choice.
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