Obituaries

On the morning of January 1936 a little beautiful brown eyed girl was born in Jac village to Maria and Ioan Taloș. Her parents named her Lucretia. Around the tender age of 3 while swinging on the little gate an older man with tears in his eyes approached her and offered her a cumin cake. In her heart he always was a beacon of love for God, family and country. A hero who was always at his post. An unforgettable memory was when her grandmother begged her father “Ioan, you now have four daughters: Milica, Lenuța and Raveica. Let...

Viorel Captiu, son of John and Sofia Captiu, was born on December 25th, 1937, in Neagra, Alba County, being the smallest of six siblings. He finished his primary education in his native town, high school in Alba Iulia, and hydrological technical school in Bucharest. He was a faithful employee, and took joy in completing his job responsibilities to the best of his ability. He worked for 36 years at the Ploiesti Hydrological Station. In 1964 he married Dina Munteanu and had a daughter, Cristina Madalina. In 1989 he arrived in the United States in Troy, Michigan. Here he repented...

Benjamin Cocar was born on September 23, 1955 to Ana and Cornel Cocar in Lescovita, Caras Severin. At that time his father was a seminary student at the Seminary in Bucharest. His only brother, Buni, was born two years earlier. He enjoyed a worry free childhood, but without much pampering. In the home of pastor Cornel Cocar and wife Ana, the Scripture was often taught, his grandmother being the first neo-protestant believer in her village with a passion to save the souls of many. In their home the Scripture was studied and God was praised, his parents being gifted...

Traian Niculas was born on January 14th 1930 in the village of Cetea, Alba County, Romania, in the family of Nicolae and Iudifta Niculas. He was the second of four siblings - Ioan, Traian, Ana, and Aurel . His childhood was spent in his native village and as a young man he started working in different areas of the country, finally finding in the city of Campia Turzii, Cluj County a good place to work . It was here that he met a young lady ,Maria Latis, who was living in the neighborhood with her widowed mother and sister,...

Ana Nicoara was born on April 21st 1934 in the city of Campia Turzii, Cluj county, the daughter of Mihail and Maria Latis. Her father died when she was only two years old, thus both she and her older sister, Maria, being fatherless, were raised up by their mother and maternal grandparents in mom's native village, Viisoara. She accepted Jesus and got baptized in the local church of Viisoara when she was 14 years old, then shortly after, both sisters move to Campia Turzii where Ana starts working in the local company, and becomes an active member of the...