Strock, John Roy.

John Roy Strock was born on a farm outside of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on June 8, 1882, to George Wood Strock and Barbara Herman Strock. He graduated from Carlisle High School in 1898, after which he took a preparatory course at Dickinson Preparatory School, finishing in 1899. He enrolled at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and in 1903 graduated Phi Beta Kappa, receiving a bachelor of arts degree. In 1905 he enrolled at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and three years later earned a bachelor of divinity degree.

He was ordained into the ministry and commissioned as a missionary for the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States (GS) on September 3, 1908. He sailed for India on September 9, 1908, and arrived in Guntur, India, on November 1, 1908. He married Elizabeth M. Evans, at St. Matthew's Church, Guntur, on November 9, 1911.

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