Willard Winn Erdman ’33

Winn was born Jan. 22, 1912, in Quincy, Ill., and died Dec. 9, 1999, in Las Cruces, N.Mex.

At Princeton, he majored in classics and played for the rugby club as well as other sports. At the end of his junior year he dedicated his life to Christian service. He was a founding member of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship. After college he attended Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained on Jan. 26, 1937, by the Presbytery of New Brunswick and was assistant pastor for churches in Germantown, Pa., and Albuquerque, N.Mex. He married Roxanna "Tanna" Propst on Apr. 12, 1937. In 1943 they accepted assignment from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions to serve in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Tanna died in 1957, and on Dec. 3, 1959 Winn married Margaret Shelby. They returned to the US in 1972. Winn was pastor to churches throughout New Mexico until and beyond his retirement.

Winn was an excellent student of languages. He loved to fish for trout and was able to do so up until two months before his death.

Winn is survived by his second wife, Margaret, and by his and Tanna's six children,Winn Jr., Julie Atkinson, Charles, Jim, Marian Dyer, and Daniel '73, and their spouses, 11 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1933