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          Jan John Gleysteen.

          Jan Gleysteen, 92, died Dec. 25, 2023, at Jenning’s Terrace nursing home in Aurora, Ill. In the last years of his life, he suffered from dementia and failing health.

          He was born July 16, 1931, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Jan Gleijsteen and Gerritje (Nowee) Gleijsteen.

          He attended the Royal Dutch Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam before coming to the United States in 1953 to study at Goshen College and Eastern Mennonite College. On June 30, 1955, he married Barbara Ellen Detweiler, and they moved to Scottdale, Pa., where he worked for Mennonite Publishing House as an artist, author, illustrator, book designer and Anabaptist history lecturer until his retirement to Goshen, Ind., in 1995.

          Jan Gleysteen Architect began in New York City in association with Chao-Ming Wu Architect in In Jan moved to Wellesley, MA and in

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        3. He was born in Hoorn North Holland on January twelfth In his boyhood and youth he worked at carpentry on the famous dutch windmills which.
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          5. Jan was a world traveler and will be remembered for his joke telling and his love of art, design, photography, history, books and trains. Having grown up in the occupied Netherlands during the Second World War, he was a lifelong advocate for peace.

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