To inform all Nasirian, or Nuer who are living here in America to joint Nyakuan's memrial service in Muscatine, Iowa on

Nyakuan, the teacher Died: Nov 05, 2006

Thursday May 05, 2007. Nyakuan pasted a way in Washington, Iowa at nursing home, she live in same city with Dr. Reanyang/Dr. Gordon, the medical doctor in Nasir from 1949 to 1964, 13 years in Nasir, and now still a live with age 97 years old. The all formers missionaries; a nurse, a teachers, a medical doctor, and pastors in Nasir will attend the memorial day: their are the following: Nyarial/Eleanor Vandevort from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she arrived at Nasir in same year with Dr. Reanyang 1949, Dr. Reanyang from Washington, Iowa, Nyabigoa/Arlene from Sioux City, Iowa, she was the nurse at Nasir and worked together with Bidong Nyoat, Dhuording Chol, Gach Duech, and so on, and Pastor: Manpiny/Pastor Jordan from Rochester, Minnesota, he moved out from Nasir in 1963 to Thiajak/Adura, in Ethiopia, he is very old enough. The formers missionaries will go a long together with their families, and friends in Jesus christ to attend the crucial day about Nyakuan.

We all encourage, people of Nasir please come and attend that memorial day. This lady's live was benefited our fathers educationally, and

Nyakuan stood in Wunbarkow with Mun Omod, and Mun hold Kaang call Jic-weng in Nuer, and Trumpet English. Wunbarkow is Cattle camp of Moun Omod. Mun same face with Jock

our fathers became wiser then other in the South, due to her teaching, she mad it clear during her teaching to our people that, human being has same value, same right, and same mind intellectually, the word became true, after she compelled by Islamic government, our fathers who were under missionaries school in Nasir, and Doleib were run out from Sudan to Ethiopia to started the First Movement under Yiech Diew, when Yiech passed a way, then George Nguut Diet replaced him, unfortunately for political purpose between Dinka, and Nuer, George was kill by his bodyguard in Liet-Nyaruach, the bodyguard was influenced by some military rankers. so the movement was Collapsed, the fighting started between two Nasirian militaries; Thir Mach, and Gony Tut because the political tactics has involved from other military rankers to destroy the Nasirian military power to switch to Dinka, and allied with Anyuak the majority people in First Movement, under the leadership of Oter who was killed in Upper Nile big fighting at "Tharyier Malaul" .

I learn this story from Jok Muon Omod the former student of Missioner school, and the former of the First movement was really too close to two leaders; George Nguut, and Yiech Diew. Click the map and you will know to go

has a power Jock Mun Omod, that the first time for Nasir people to be a welknown among the people of the South, and then George Nguut Diet replaced him . and we have value in the South Sudan, due to this lady, he was spent her live in our land to educated our fathers and mothers for both languages English, and Nuer. the question Why Nuer none speaker touch the Nuer speaker .

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Biography      

Nyakuan/Marian with Nasirian boys, the first educators in Nasir 1952

Nyakuan/Marian Farquhar, missionary to Sudan, was born near College Springs in Page County, Iowa in 1917. Nyakuan/Farquhar graduated from Amity High School in College Springs, Iowa in 1935 and proceeded to Tarkio College in Tarkio, Missouri. During her college years, she taught primary grades in Coburg and New Market, Iowa for three years. After she received her B.A. in 1940, Farquhar taught high school English in Elliott and Atlantic, Iowa for three years. The summer of 1940 she worked at a Fresh Air camp in the Chicago area.

          By 1943, Nyakuan/Farquhar was determined to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a missionary. As a child she had heard missionaries speak at her church about their work. In addition, two of her sister’s college friends recounted stories of their parents, who were missionaries in the Sudan. Nyakuan/Farquhar was accepted for a tour of duty in Africa and trained at the Kennedy School of Missions in Hartford, Connecticut and the Biblical Seminary in New York. She sailed for Sudan on August 28, 1945.

            In the usual five-year tours of duty, Nyakuan/Farquhar worked in Nasir, a settlement in southern Sudan close to the Ethiopian border. Her goal was to persuade the Nuers to allow their daughters to be educated. She taught the girls in a three-room thatched school created by her predecessor, Blanche Soule. While teaching, she developed a series of primers for educating Nuers to read and write. Nearly every literate Nuer learned from the books that she created. Farquhar remained in Sudan until 1964, when the Sudanese government expelled all missionaries. She proceeded to teach English as a second language in Hong Kong for 18 months and then taught English for 10 years in Dembi Dollo, Ethiopia. Farquhar was forced out of Ethiopia by Marxists in 1977 and returned home for two years before she was able to travel back to Sudan. From 1979 to 1982, she worked with the Wycliffe Bible Translators to create an eight-book series of primers for Nuer children in first through third grades.

In 1983, she retired to her family’s farm. She returned to Sudan from 1986 to 1987 to contribute to a Presbyterian hymnbook for Nuers and from 1988 to 1989 to assist the Wycliffe Bible Translators with a further project. In 1993 she moved to the United Presbyterian Home in Washington, Iowa.  In January 1994, she went to Nairobi, Kenya to work three months with Nuer evangelists and to help Wycliffe with translation of a Nuer Old Testament. While in her eighties, she helped Sudanese immigrants in Iowa, Omaha and other places adjust to their new lives and used the primers she created to teach them to read and write.

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Komach Deng Dey