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Services Held for Myron Hegge
TACOMA, WA (November 21, 2003) - Funeral services were held on Tuesday at
First Covenant Church in Tacoma for longtime visitation pastor Myron
Hegge, who died at the Tacoma Lutheran Home on November 12. He was 83.
He served with First Covenant Church after retiring from many years as a
missionary to Japan with the Evangelical Alliance Mission.
Born in rural North Dakota on January 31, 1920, Hegge came to faith
after his high school years as a soldier at the Christian Serviceman's
Center in Tacoma on October 14, 1941. Later that day, the 21-year-old
met his future wife, Irene Bergman, a member of First Covenant Church in
Tacoma. Hegge served with the U.S. Army in Australia and New Guinea
during WWII. Following the war, he and Irene were married on August 16,
1946.
The Hegges attended Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta,
shortly after their wedding. They studied for three years there and
decided they wanted to become missionaries to Japan. They served
together in western Japan with The Evangelical Alliance Mission from
1950 to 1984. And after returning to the United States, the Hegges moved
to Tacoma and became members of First Covenant.
"They were together doing everything - they did visitation together,
they were on the mission committee together," said Byron Amundsen of
Covenant World Mission, who served with Hegge at Tacoma for more than
six years. "They were always very hospitable people. They were a team."
Hegge is survived by his wife, Irene; son, Deane Hegge of Pasadena,
California; daughter, Gloria
Hegge and son-in-law Jonathan Beachy of Wichita, Kansas; daughter, Grace
Ahrens of Lancaster, California; and six grandchildren and numerous
nieces and nephews.
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