This website is dedicated to the honor and memory of my parents who spent most of their lives based near Nappanee, Indiana, and died six months apart in 2006:
Edna Marie (Swartzentruber) Hochstetler - born on June 30, 1932 & died on April 25, 2006.
Dean Lamar Hochstetler - born on October 6, 1928 & died on October 30, 2006.
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Compiled by Clair Hochstetler - the eldest of their four sons (while living in Canberra, Australia from June 2008 to June 2015.)
Don Jacobs: I loved ministering and teaching with Dean - it was like...
Ministering with Dean was like chucking 2000 years of history and walking with Jesus and his disciples through Palestine and the world touching people with the healing power of the atoning work of Jesus. I loved ministering and teaching with Dean.
Having served as a missionary in East Africa I discovered many, many things. How excited I was to meet and learn from this dear brother, Dean, who understood exactly what I was learning.
Dean will continue to inspire me. He was God's special gift to me through these years.
He is now with his Jesus - safe and sound and secure - forever.
Don Jacobs Retired Director of Mennonite Christian Leadership Foundation
Ministering with Dean was like chucking 2000 years of history and walking with Jesus and his disciples through Palestine and the world touching people with the healing power of the atoning work of Jesus. I loved ministering and teaching with Dean.
Having served as a missionary in East Africa I discovered many, many things. How excited I was to meet and learn from this dear brother, Dean, who understood exactly what I was learning.
Dean will continue to inspire me. He was God's special gift to me through these years.
He is now with his Jesus - safe and sound and secure - forever.
Don Jacobs
Retired Director of Mennonite Christian Leadership Foundation