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In Memoriam: Rev. Harold Dekker
1918 – 2006
Rev. Harold Dekker, the last surviving World War II chaplain in the Christian Reformed Church, died March 16 from heart failure.
Dekker grew up in Chicago, where he attended Chicago Christian High School.
He studied at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary, graduating from the latter in 1942.
Rev harold dekker biography
He married Frances Sytsma in 1940.
The young theologian--he had then just reached the age of 24--showed a great deal of interest in the spiritual needs of American servicemen, and so the denomination appointed him its first “Service Pastor.” Within a year, however, he entered the U.S.
Navy as a chaplain and saw action in the South Pacific. Following his discharge in 1946, he joined the faculty of Calvin College. In 1947 he agreed to become the pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of Englewood, N.J., where he served till 1950.
That year he joined Rev. Peter Eldersveld as a radio preacher for the Back to God Hour. He returned to Calvin