The Rev. Dean H. Lewis died on June 14, 2021, in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 94. Born September 6, 1926, in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Samuel T. Lewis and Pharis Haynes, he grew up in Harrisonville, Missouri. He entered the Naval Air Force in 1944 upon graduation as Valedictorian from high school and was discharged as an Aviation Radar Technician 2nd Class. He graduated from William Jewell College as President of the Centennial Senior Class of 1949, having been selected as one of five members of the Aeons Honor Society, and won national recognition in debate and extemporaneous discussion. After graduation from Yale Divinity School in 1953, where he was awarded the Mersick Prize in Preaching, he was ordained to the Ministry of the Presbyterian Church USA and installed as Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Springdale, Arkansas. Following five years in that pastorate during which the congregation grew from 53 to 157, he served for 30 years in agencies of the General Assembly of t
Higinio Martinez was born on August 29, 1929 in Chama, New Mexico to, and preceded in death by, Higinio Martinez Sr. and Louisa Rael Martinez. He is also proceeded in