WOODLAND, CA (November 8, 2012) – Services are pending for John Withem, 58, senior pastor of Bayside Woodland Covenant Church, who died Sunday following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Withem was born September 8, 1954. He married his wife, Nancy, on June 23, 1979. In addition to his wife, Withem is survived by two children, Cristen and Jonathan.

More information will be published as it becomes available.

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