Beyler, Clayton V., 1918 - 1973
Clayton Beyler was born in Harper, Kansas in 1918. He was ordained to the ministry in 1944 and served with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in India and China in the mid 1940s.
Clayton was Dean of Instruction of Hesston College (Kansas). He died of a heart attack in 1973 at the age of 55.
Millard was born in Bakersfield, California on October 10, 1918, to Norman A. and Sarah Flohr Lind, and was married to Miriam Sieber Lind on April 17, 1943, in Goshen. Millard was a graduate of Goshen College in 1942 and received a ThD from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1964. He was a member of Goshen College Mennonite Church. Lind had a deep commitment to his family and to his church. He served the latter as a pastor, writer, editor, and notably as a teacher. He was Professor of Old Testament at Goshen Biblical Seminary and its successor, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, from 1959 until his retirement in 1998. Lind is remembered by several generations of Mennonite church workers and pastors for his love of the Old Testament texts, his teachings on the Pentateuch and the prophets, and for his life-long inquiry into themes of state violence and power from an Old Testament perspective. Among his published writings are a study of Old Testament warfare, Yahweh Is a Warrior (1980), and of capital punishment, The Sound of Sheer Silence and the Killing State (2004). (Source: Yoder-Culp Funeral Home, Goshen, Ind.)