THE OBITUARY November 20th, 2005 Gary Harder Text:     2 Timothy 1:1-14The funeral service in the old box-like rural church could have been a replay from 30 years earlier. The obituary, read first in German and then in English, sounded like most obituaries do, the basic life-story told cryptically and read with little emotion, “This is the life story of Jake Willms, born in 1910 in the Molotchna colony in Russia”, intoned one of the lay ministers with dignity and … Continue reading The Obituary – Gary Harder – Nov. 20/05