Covenant News

Memorial Service September 4 for Fern C. Enns

SAN DIEGO, CA (July 25, 2005) - A memorial service for former Missionary Fern C. (Anderson) Enns has been scheduled for 3 p.m. September 4 at Grace Covenant Church in Spring Valley, California. Enns, 82, died on Saturday.

She was a resident of Mt. Miguel Covenant Village where her husband, Marlan, was the first administrator from 1965-1974. They recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.

The couple directed mission work in Ecuador and Mexico City, planting the first three Evangelical Covenant Churches in both locations. The couple served 17 years in Ecuador. In 1949, they opened a work in Ibarra that later became the First Covenant Church in Ecuador. Marlan served as pastor at Ibarra and also was director of the Theodore W. Anderson School in Quito. The couple served in Mexico City from 1974 to 1978 and selected the first target area in nearby Satelite City.

Fern and Marlan moved to Texas in 1980, and worked in the border town of LaVilla, where they helped an outreach program to establish new Spanish-speaking congregations.

Fern was born in Kingsburg, California. She attended Reedley Junior College in Reedley, California, and was a 1944 graduate of San Jose State College in San Jose, California. She is survived by her husband and four children: William, Marlene, Janette and Richard.

A memorial service is pending in Mexico City. More information will be posted to this online Covenant news report as it becomes available.

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