Justus G. Holsinger, 96, died Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, at Newton Medical Center.
A memorial service was on Saturday, Aug. 18, in the Schowalter Villa Chapel in Hesston. A private burial service was held Aug. 9 at Eastlawn Cemetery in Hesston.
He was born July 8, 1911, near Harrisonburg, Va., to Henry S. and Elizabeth Cline Holsinger.
He met Salome Fast in Puerto Rico where he was serving as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service during World War II (from 11-4-1942 to 4-16-1946) and she was serving as a nurse with Mennonite Central Committee. They were married on Dec. 16, 1944.
He was baptized at Lindale (Va.) Mennonite Church as a teenager. He became a member of Hesston Mennonite Church after moving to Hesston in 1952 and served as an elder, adult Sunday school teacher and superintendent. He wrote "Upon this rock: Remembering together the 75-year story of Hesston Mennonite Church" in 1984.
He also served as coordinator of the South Central Conference of the Mennonite Church, which includes HMC.
Holsinger received undergraduate degrees from Eastern Mennonite College and Bridgewater College, both in Virginia, in social and natural science and graduate degrees in history, political science, psychology and education from the University of Virginia and the University of Kansas.
He taught in public schools in Virginia and then at Bluffton College in Ohio.
After that, Justus and Salome served in Puerto Rico where he directed the Mennonite La Plata Project, which included agriculture, education and medical work. In Puerto Rico, he helped the Academia Menonita de Summit Hills, a K-12 school, receive accreditation.
He was academic dean at Hesston College for seven years and then became director of teacher education and professor at Bethel College in North Newton. He also taught at Friends University in Wichita and Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. He served as the executive secretary of the Council of Mennonite Colleges.
After retiring at Bethel, he accepted service assignments in Bolivia, where he helped start the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center, and in Puerto Rico where he researched and wrote the story of the first years of Mennonite mission work, "Serving Rural Puerto Rico."
He is survived by his wife, Salome; two sons, Dave of Houston and Don of Edmonds, Wash.; two daughters, Betty Shenk of Harrisonburg, Va. and Becky Rand of Winter Park, Colo.; a sister, Catherine Miller, of Harrisonburg, and 11 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
His parents, four sisters and one brother preceded him in death.
Memorials have been established with the Holsinger Teaching Scholarship at Bethel College, the Good Samaritan Fund at Schowalter Villa and Mennonite Central Committee, in care of Miller Funeral Home, P.O. Box 32, Hesston, KS 67062.
A memorial service was on Saturday, Aug. 18, in the Schowalter Villa Chapel in Hesston. A private burial service was held Aug. 9 at Eastlawn Cemetery in Hesston.
He was born July 8, 1911, near Harrisonburg, Va., to Henry S. and Elizabeth Cline Holsinger.
He met Salome Fast in Puerto Rico where he was serving as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service during World War II (from 11-4-1942 to 4-16-1946) and she was serving as a nurse with Mennonite Central Committee. They were married on Dec. 16, 1944.
He was baptized at Lindale (Va.) Mennonite Church as a teenager. He became a member of Hesston Mennonite Church after moving to Hesston in 1952 and served as an elder, adult Sunday school teacher and superintendent. He wrote "Upon this rock: Remembering together the 75-year story of Hesston Mennonite Church" in 1984.
He also served as coordinator of the South Central Conference of the Mennonite Church, which includes HMC.
Holsinger received undergraduate degrees from Eastern Mennonite College and Bridgewater College, both in Virginia, in social and natural science and graduate degrees in history, political science, psychology and education from the University of Virginia and the University of Kansas.
He taught in public schools in Virginia and then at Bluffton College in Ohio.
After that, Justus and Salome served in Puerto Rico where he directed the Mennonite La Plata Project, which included agriculture, education and medical work. In Puerto Rico, he helped the Academia Menonita de Summit Hills, a K-12 school, receive accreditation.
He was academic dean at Hesston College for seven years and then became director of teacher education and professor at Bethel College in North Newton. He also taught at Friends University in Wichita and Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. He served as the executive secretary of the Council of Mennonite Colleges.
After retiring at Bethel, he accepted service assignments in Bolivia, where he helped start the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center, and in Puerto Rico where he researched and wrote the story of the first years of Mennonite mission work, "Serving Rural Puerto Rico."
He is survived by his wife, Salome; two sons, Dave of Houston and Don of Edmonds, Wash.; two daughters, Betty Shenk of Harrisonburg, Va. and Becky Rand of Winter Park, Colo.; a sister, Catherine Miller, of Harrisonburg, and 11 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
His parents, four sisters and one brother preceded him in death.
Memorials have been established with the Holsinger Teaching Scholarship at Bethel College, the Good Samaritan Fund at Schowalter Villa and Mennonite Central Committee, in care of Miller Funeral Home, P.O. Box 32, Hesston, KS 67062.
Justus G. Holsinger, 96, died Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, at Newton Medical Center.
A memorial service was on Saturday, Aug. 18, in the Schowalter Villa Chapel in Hesston. A private burial service was held Aug. 9 at Eastlawn Cemetery in Hesston.
He was born July 8, 1911, near Harrisonburg, Va., to Henry S. and Elizabeth Cline Holsinger.
He met Salome Fast in Puerto Rico where he was serving as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service during World War II (from 11-4-1942 to 4-16-1946) and she was serving as a nurse with Mennonite Central Committee. They were married on Dec. 16, 1944.
He was baptized at Lindale (Va.) Mennonite Church as a teenager. He became a member of Hesston Mennonite Church after moving to Hesston in 1952 and served as an elder, adult Sunday school teacher and superintendent. He wrote "Upon this rock: Remembering together the 75-year story of Hesston Mennonite Church" in 1984.
He also served as coordinator of the South Central Conference of the Mennonite Church, which includes HMC.
Holsinger received undergraduate degrees from Eastern Mennonite College and Bridgewater College, both in Virginia, in social and natural science and graduate degrees in history, political science, psychology and education from the University of Virginia and the University of Kansas.
He taught in public schools in Virginia and then at Bluffton College in Ohio.
After that, Justus and Salome served in Puerto Rico where he directed the Mennonite La Plata Project, which included agriculture, education and medical work. In Puerto Rico, he helped the Academia Menonita de Summit Hills, a K-12 school, receive accreditation.
He was academic dean at Hesston College for seven years and then became director of teacher education and professor at Bethel College in North Newton. He also taught at Friends University in Wichita and Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. He served as the executive secretary of the Council of Mennonite Colleges.
After retiring at Bethel, he accepted service assignments in Bolivia, where he helped start the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center, and in Puerto Rico where he researched and wrote the story of the first years of Mennonite mission work, "Serving Rural Puerto Rico."
He is survived by his wife, Salome; two sons, Dave of Houston and Don of Edmonds, Wash.; two daughters, Betty Shenk of Harrisonburg, Va. and Becky Rand of Winter Park, Colo.; a sister, Catherine Miller, of Harrisonburg, and 11 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
His parents, four sisters and one brother preceded him in death.
Memorials have been established with the Holsinger Teaching Scholarship at Bethel College, the Good Samaritan Fund at Schowalter Villa and Mennonite Central Committee, in care of Miller Funeral Home, P.O. Box 32, Hesston, KS 67062.
A memorial service was on Saturday, Aug. 18, in the Schowalter Villa Chapel in Hesston. A private burial service was held Aug. 9 at Eastlawn Cemetery in Hesston.
He was born July 8, 1911, near Harrisonburg, Va., to Henry S. and Elizabeth Cline Holsinger.
He met Salome Fast in Puerto Rico where he was serving as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service during World War II (from 11-4-1942 to 4-16-1946) and she was serving as a nurse with Mennonite Central Committee. They were married on Dec. 16, 1944.
He was baptized at Lindale (Va.) Mennonite Church as a teenager. He became a member of Hesston Mennonite Church after moving to Hesston in 1952 and served as an elder, adult Sunday school teacher and superintendent. He wrote "Upon this rock: Remembering together the 75-year story of Hesston Mennonite Church" in 1984.
He also served as coordinator of the South Central Conference of the Mennonite Church, which includes HMC.
Holsinger received undergraduate degrees from Eastern Mennonite College and Bridgewater College, both in Virginia, in social and natural science and graduate degrees in history, political science, psychology and education from the University of Virginia and the University of Kansas.
He taught in public schools in Virginia and then at Bluffton College in Ohio.
After that, Justus and Salome served in Puerto Rico where he directed the Mennonite La Plata Project, which included agriculture, education and medical work. In Puerto Rico, he helped the Academia Menonita de Summit Hills, a K-12 school, receive accreditation.
He was academic dean at Hesston College for seven years and then became director of teacher education and professor at Bethel College in North Newton. He also taught at Friends University in Wichita and Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. He served as the executive secretary of the Council of Mennonite Colleges.
After retiring at Bethel, he accepted service assignments in Bolivia, where he helped start the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center, and in Puerto Rico where he researched and wrote the story of the first years of Mennonite mission work, "Serving Rural Puerto Rico."
He is survived by his wife, Salome; two sons, Dave of Houston and Don of Edmonds, Wash.; two daughters, Betty Shenk of Harrisonburg, Va. and Becky Rand of Winter Park, Colo.; a sister, Catherine Miller, of Harrisonburg, and 11 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
His parents, four sisters and one brother preceded him in death.
Memorials have been established with the Holsinger Teaching Scholarship at Bethel College, the Good Samaritan Fund at Schowalter Villa and Mennonite Central Committee, in care of Miller Funeral Home, P.O. Box 32, Hesston, KS 67062.
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