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Memorial Service Planned for Roy Sveiven
SANTA BARBARA, CA (March 14, 2006) - A memorial service will be conducted
Saturday, March 25, for retired Evangelical Covenant Church Pastor Roy
Sveiven, 93, who died Tuesday, March 7.
The service will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Samarkand Covenant Village in
Santa Barbara where he had been residing with his wife, Lyla, who
survives him. Rev. Robert M. Kronberg will officiate at the service.
Sveiven was born in Sacred Heart, Minnesota. He attended Oster Mission
Covenant Church in Waverly, Minnesota. He was first licensed in 1935 and
was ordained after graduating from North Park Theological Seminary.
Sveiven served a number of Covenant churches from 1934 until his
retirement in 1977.
He served five Covenant churches in Minnesota: Mission Covenant in
Cannon Falls, Buffalo Lake Covenant in Murdock, Svea Hill Covenant in
Elk River, Oster Covenant in Waverly, and Lakeview in Duluth. Sveiven
also pastored Squaw Peak Covenant in Phoenix, Arizona.
He served three home missions churches: Countryside Covenant in
Glenview, Illinois; Mission Covenant in Edmonton, Alberta; and Kerman
Covenant in Kerman, California. Sveiven also served several
non-Covenant congregations.
Sveiven served as manager of Covenant Harbor Bible Camp in Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin, from 1954-1957.
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