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Services Held for Dr. J. Melburn Soneson
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (April 2, 2001) - Services for retired North Park University professor Dr. J. Melburn Soneson were held Wednesday at Bethlehem Covenant Church. Soneson, 79, died late Saturday evening at the Colonial Acres center in Covenant Manor.
Soneson joined the North Park University (then college) faculty as an instructor of philosophy and religion in September 1956, eventually attaining full professor status. From 1983-1987 he led groups of North Park students to work at a school in Furcy, Haiti, a small community in the mountains outside of Port-Au-Prince. The college board and North Park Theological Seminary granted him Emeritus Faculty status just prior to his retirement June 1, 1988.
Soneson received an Associate of Arts degree from Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he met his wife, Dagmar. He went on to earn his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chicago. Before joining the North Park staff, Soneson earned a doctorate in Philosophy.
Soneson is survived by his wife, Dagmar, and children Karen, Janet, Jerry and Dan.
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