Memorial Service Saturday for Roger W. Wiganosky

MOUNT VERNON, WA (May 23, 2012) – A memorial service will be conducted Saturday, May 26, for retired Evangelical Covenant Church pastor Roger W. Wiganosky who died May 13 at Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon.

The service will begin at 2 p.m. at Bethany Covenant Church, 1318 South 18th Street in Mount Vernon. A service of Celebration of his life will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 27, at Warm Beach Senior Community Center in Stanwood.

Wiganosky was born January 1, 1927, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He married Jeanne Manning in 1950 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He enjoyed the outdoors, camping with his family, fishing, and boating through the San Juan and Puget Sound area.

Following graduation from Wheaton College and North Park Theological Seminary in 1954, he served Evangelical Covenant churches in the Pacific Northwest until his retirement in 1992.

In addition to his wife, survivors include four daughters: Sharon Romero, Suzanne Record, Janice Morrow, and Julia Wiganosky; a son, David Wiganosky; eight grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

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