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 Margaret Gunzel (Mongolia, Hong Kong, TEAM of Canada) went to be with the Lord the morning of May 18, 2010. She would have turned 100 in August! Margaret was our oldest retiree. She was sharp of mind, aware of life around her and prayerfully active until two days before her departure to Heaven.
Margaret sailed for China in 1935. Her fiancé, Stuart, was already there, having gone to Mongolia in 1933. They were married two months after her arrival in China and moved up to Mongolia where they lived in a yurt, among the Mongolian people. Their ministry was to learn the language and carry out a complete revision and corrections of the New Testament translation which had been done almost a century earlier by British missionaries. During the war years they re-located to Hong Kong with numerous Mongolian refugees. There, they completed their work and the New Testament was published in 1954, the same year they were asked to lead TEAM's work in western Canada, where they served until 1975. Stuart went to be with the Lord in 1995.
The Gunzel's home was a haven for many to stop in for a cup of tea and words of grace and encouragement. Their daughter, Carol, has served with TEAM in Taiwan and is currently retired and living in Abbottsford, BC. She reports that even in Margaret’s time in assisted living, she was constantly looking out for others and how she could pray for them. In 2004, when asked what was the best thing about retirement, she replied, “There is time to pray!”
Stuart and Margaret had five children, all of whom survive their parents.
Funeral services were held Sunday, May 23, 2010 at Seven Oaks Alliance Church in Abbotsford, BC Canada. 
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