Edgar Willis Epp: civil servant, administrator, and educator; born on 20 March 1931 in Laird, Saskatchewan, the second of four children of Bertha (Friesen) Epp and Gerhard P. Epp. Edgar was raised in Laird and after graduation from high school attended the Canadian Mennonite Bible College, where he earned his Bachelor of Christian Education in 1952; there, too, he met Leola Jantz of Drake, Saskatchewan. They married on 21 August 1952 and had six children.
While his varied career included work as lay pastor and choir director, social worker and jail warden, farmer and teacher, Deputy Minister and Dean, Edgar is widely remembered for his passionate but good-humoured commitment to social and criminal justice. In 1971, as a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church Commission on Ministries, Epp helped draft The Way of Peace, which – like his tombstone in the Laird cemetery – quotes Micah 6:8: “what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.”
While his varied career included work as lay pastor and choir director, social worker and jail warden, farmer and teacher, Deputy Minister and Dean, Edgar is widely remembered for his passionate but good-humoured commitment to social and criminal justice. In 1971, as a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church Commission on Ministries, Epp helped draft The Way of Peace, which – like his tombstone in the Laird cemetery – quotes Micah 6:8: “what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.”
Edgar Willis Epp: civil servant, administrator, and educator; born on 20 March 1931 in Laird, Saskatchewan, the second of four children of Bertha (Friesen) Epp and Gerhard P. Epp. Edgar was raised in Laird and after graduation from high school attended the Canadian Mennonite Bible College, where he earned his Bachelor of Christian Education in 1952; there, too, he met Leola Jantz of Drake, Saskatchewan. They married on 21 August 1952 and had six children.
While his varied career included work as lay pastor and choir director, social worker and jail warden, farmer and teacher, Deputy Minister and Dean, Edgar is widely remembered for his passionate but good-humoured commitment to social and criminal justice. In 1971, as a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church Commission on Ministries, Epp helped draft The Way of Peace, which – like his tombstone in the Laird cemetery – quotes Micah 6:8: “what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.”
While his varied career included work as lay pastor and choir director, social worker and jail warden, farmer and teacher, Deputy Minister and Dean, Edgar is widely remembered for his passionate but good-humoured commitment to social and criminal justice. In 1971, as a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church Commission on Ministries, Epp helped draft The Way of Peace, which – like his tombstone in the Laird cemetery – quotes Micah 6:8: “what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.”
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Epp, Edgar Willis
1931 - 1991
Do Justice, Love Kindness, Walk Humbly with your God
Micah 6:8
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