3 6 PUT YOUR NAME IN PRINT New job? New degree? Baby? House? Award? We want to know your news. Send it in! E-MAIL biolamag@biola.edu MAIL News & Notes, <strong>Biola</strong> Magazine, 13800 <strong>Biola</strong> Avenue, La Mirada, CA, 90639 WEB SITE www.biola.edu/biolamag Please limit your updates to 60 words and include your years of graduation or last year you attended <strong>Biola</strong>. Death announcements must be submitted by a family member or be accom panied by a photocopy of a published obituary. Photos must be at least 1 megabyte for digital photos. Photo inclusion is based on space availability. Print photos will not be returned. Your update will appear in the first available issue. and Carissa works as a juvenile detention officer for Maricopa County. Adam (’05, M.A. ’06) and Laura (Bostwick, ’04) DeClercq are proud to announce the birth of their first son, Garrett Thomas, on March 21 in Fullerton, Calif. Garrett weighed 8 pounds and measured 20.5 inches. Ryan (M.A. ’05) and Emily (Lenderman, ’04, M.A. ’07) Buttes are delighted to announce the arrival of their son, Chase Patrick, born Nov. 21, 2009 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Ryan and Emily currently serve as missionaries in the Dominican Republic. You can read more about their ministry at www.stonesonthealtar.com. Jeff and Joy (Buller, ’05) Walker joyfully announce the birth of their daughter, Grace Noel, born April 25, 2009. She arrived weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces and measuring 19 3/4 inches. Jeff is a special education teacher and Joy is a stay-at-home mom. Rick (M.A. ’08) and Jennifer (Filakouridis, ’03) Stoody joyfully announce the birth of their first child. Madeleine Marie was born July 4, 2009. The Stoodys live in Santa Barbara, Calif. Rick is getting his Ph.D. in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara. Jennifer was a pediatric nurse but is now a stay-at-home mom. Deaths Patricia Kelso (’38) Lokkesmoe went home to be with the Lord on April 14. She was 94. While at <strong>Biola</strong>, she was the first editor of the <strong>Biola</strong> Chimes newspaper and a member of the Evangel Girls women’s quartet. She had been married to Marvin Lokkesmoe for 63 years when he passed away in 2005. They had three children — Tim, Mary Pat and Jim — all of whom attended <strong>Biola</strong>. Pat and Marvin had a love for missions and the work of the Navigators and Wycliffe Bible Translators. She is survived by her three children, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, who will miss her greatly. Christ in early July, at the age of 92. After growing up in Minnesota, Montana and Oregon, Olga began studies at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in 1940, graduating in 1943 with a degree in Christian education. From childhood, God had placed in her heart a desire to serve him, she thought, in Africa. (Later, it was two of her sons who served there.) At <strong>Biola</strong> she was impressed by a handsome young man who worked with her in the dining room. It was Curt Claassen, whom she married on June 1, 1944, in Dallas, Ore. He too had felt a call to missions, and to India in particular. They boarded a ship for India in November 1945, under the General Conference Mennonite Mission Board. There they served in the fields of evangelism, teaching in the Janjgir Bible School, church planting, encouraging isolated Christians in villages and mentoring Indian evangelists. Their four sons — Lloyd, Gordon, Eldon and Loren — all grew up in India, graduating from Woodstock Boarding School. In 1975 the family moved to Berne, Ind., to serve in the First Mennonite Church, where Olga taught Sunday school, participated in Women in Mission and involved herself in many other ways in church life. Olga is survived by her loving husband, their four sons and wives, her grandchildren and many nephews and nieces. Harry Luman Bascom (’49), age 87, passed into the presence of his Creator on June 2, in Santa Barbara, Calif. During his life, Harry served as a pastor at three California churches: Calvary Baptist Church in Monrovia, Cogswell Road Community Church in El Monte and Trinity Baptist Church in Santa Barbara. From 1951 to 1954, he served as a missionary in Venezuela with the Orinoco River Mission. Later, he served as a chaplain in the Los Angeles County jail system and as a Los Angeles County probation officer, specializing in juvenile and family services. He received a bachelor’s degree from Cal State Los Angeles in the late 1950s and a master’s in psychology with honors from Pepperdine <strong>University</strong> in 1972, and was a licensed marriage and family Olga Rose (Schultz, ’43) Claassen entered the heavenly presence of her Lord and Savior Jesus Continued on page 38 B I O L A
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