|
Home
Saturday Service for Former Covenant Missionary
ROCKFORD, IL (October 17, 2005) - A funeral service for former missionary
Eleanor (Jones) Engeman, 87, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the
chapel at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Rockford. She died this past
Saturday, October 15.
Engeman knew as a child that she wanted to be a missionary. She and her
husband, Harry, were commissioned in 1949 to missionary work in China,
but were unable to go to China because of the Communist revolution.
Instead the couple served in Japan from 1950 to 1981. While in Japan,
she served as an English and Bible study teacher and ministered to
women's groups. She moved to Rockford in 1981 when Harry became the
pastor of North Park Covenant there until 1987.
Engeman was born in 1918 at Aurora, Nebraska, where her father, Arvid
Jones, was the pastor of the Mission Covenant Church. She grew up in
Marquette, Kansas, and Ceresco, Nebraska. She was a member of Batavia
Covenant Church in Batavia, Illinois.
Engeman graduated from North Park College in 1938 and the Swedish
Covenant Hospital School of Nursing in 1941. After marrying Harry, she
spent a year at the Yale University Institute for Far Eastern Languages
for Chinese and Japanese language studies. Her work in Japan included
time in Tokyo, Nagaoka, and Shibukawa.
She is survived by two daughters, Joyce Marsden, and Joan Tomlin; one
son, Stewart; and four grandchildren. Harry and a son, Stephen, preceded
her in death.
Copyright © 2008 The Evangelical Covenant Church. |
|
|
|
