OBITUARY: Reverend John D. Woodin, 1930-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[Adapted from: Mitchell County Press online - March 17, 2004 - www.mcpress.com]

                                                            


                           Rev. John D. Woodin

A celebration of life for Rev. John D. Woodin, 73, of Kalona, was
held Thursday, March 11, 2004 at the Kalona United Christian and
Baptist Church with Pastors Rolland Smith, Mark Martin and Bill
Rathbun officiating.  Burial was in Sharon Hill Cemetery, Kalona.
John passed away on March 7, 2004 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.
Peterseim Funeral Service, Kalona was in charge of arrangements.

John D. Woodin was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, to Dr. and Mrs.
John G. Woodin, on October 26, 1930.  He graduated from Grand Island
Senior High School and attended the University of Nebraska, where
he was active in music.  He married Marilyn Jungclaus on June 15,
1952.  Between his junior and senior years at the University he was
drafted into the Army and did basic training in Missouri, later
serving Camp Atterbury, Indiana, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, and Fort
Riley, Kansas.  He trained to be a chaplain performing clerk
duties during the Korean Conflict.

John graduated from Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas.  He did
his graduate work for his pastoral career at the seminary of
Berkeley Baptist Divinity School in Berkeley California.  He served
as youth pastor in Oakland, California, in First Baptist Church.

He was called to his first church in Osage, Iowa. He served the
Osage First Baptist Church for 6.5  years before he accepted the
call to the United Christian and Baptist church in Kalona, where
he was pastor for 28 years, retiring in 1991.

While serving in Kalona, John was instrumental in beginning the
Mid-Prairie Council of Churches and the Kalona Historical Society
and helped begin the Kalona Historical Village.

After retiring, John became an interim minister serving Iowa City
First Baptist Church, Burlington First Baptist Church, Fairfield
Baptist Church, Ollie First Baptist Church, The United Church of
Christ in Fort Madison and The First Baptist Church of Waterloo.

Surviving John is his wife Marilyn, son John F. and wife Nancy
of Dubuque and grandchildren Rob of Minneapolis, and Michael of
Cincinnati, son James and wife Heather of North Liberty and
grandchildren Corey and Amanda of North Liberty and one sister
Dorothy of Topeka, Kansas.

His parents and one sister preceded him in death.



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