Bruce Loring Strickland, 89, died April 1, 2023. He and his family moved to Auburndale, MA in 1941. He graduated from Boston Christian High School, Wheaton College (Illinois) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Bruce served in pastoral ministry in Watertown, MA, Port Jefferson Station, NY and Dolton, IL. He was an adjunct professor at the Stony Brook School (NY), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (IL) and Moody Bible institute (IL). Bruce was a high school Bible teacher at Keswick Christian School, St.Petersburg, FL, for 22 years, retiring in 2001.

In 1956 he married Jean Arthur Rosenau, who served with him for 55 years before her death. They have three children; Dr. Martha Jean Strickland (Hummelstown, PA), Lynn Kile (St.Petersburg, FL) and Robert Bruce Strickland(Telford, PA); four grandchildren: Craig Kile, Wesley, Seth and Kate Strickland, and two Great-grandchildren: Amelia May Kile, and John Robert Strickland.

There will be a memorial service at Christ the King Presbyterian Church, (Seminole, FL) on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 2:00PM.