DEATHS

AND OBITUARIES

Dean Hiebert

Services for Dean Ellis Hiebert, 77, who died July 21, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Ebenfeld Church, rural Hillsboro. Burial will be an hour before the service at the church cemetery.

Born Feb. 27, 1948, at Salem Hospital in Hillsboro to Otto and Bernice (Neufeld) Hiebert, he professed his faith at age 6 and demonstrated his involvement by distributing Bibles with Gideons International and being part of other evangelical efforts through the church.

The family lived on a farm 1½ miles from the church, and he eventually had his own sheep farm.

While attending Tabor College, he met Canadian student Eileen Kroeker. They were married in 1969, a year before graduation, at St. Catharines, Ontario.

She survives along with their three children, Pamela Matthews, Kaiden Hiebert, and John Michael Hiebert; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and sister Faye Ressel.

Younger brother Gordon Keith Hiebert preceded him in death.

Memorials have been established with the Gideons and Good News Bible Fellowship.