Rev. Dexter H. Edwards Jr.

Reverend Dexter H. Edwards Jr., died on Saturday, Nov. 24. He was born May 22, 1926.

He joined the United States Navy in 1944 and served in South Pacific and Okinawa on the USS Burleson and USS Taledega.

He married Myrtle J. Brinkmann on Dec. 23, 1947. He attended Colorado State University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture in 1950. He continued his education earning a Master of Theology from Dallas Seminary in 1961, Master of Cross-Cultural Communications from Wheaton College Graduate School, and ordained in Colorado in 1951.

He served churches in many locatio...