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George Savchenko collection

 Collection
Identifier: M0089

Dates

  • 1944–1948

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Biographical / Historical

George P. Savchenko was born in a sod home near Makoti, North Dakota to Ukrainian immigrants on May 8, 1913. He was a gifted musician, graduating from high school in 1933 and marrying Scandinavian immigrant Olga Vik in 1935. George and Olga had three children and spent the next several years pastoring churches in the western United States.

In 1944, the Savchenko family became the first missionaries of the Church of God to the territory of Alaska. They worked hard until 1948 digging out a mission church among the harsh conditions, working over a wide geographical footprint to minister to both indigenous peoples and transplanted Americans.

After their tenure in Alaska, Savchenko attended Lee College, Dartmouth College, and Montana State University working as a secondary school educator in music and industrial arts. Olga passed away at the age of 62 in 1979 and George married Ruth Pettyjohn of Cleveland, TN in 1980. George passed away on October 24, 2001.

Extent

2 Linear Feet (3 containers)

Language of Materials

English

Russian

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Status
Completed
Date
2021
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Hal Bernard Dixon Jr. Pentecostal Research Center Repository

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