
Local Bahá’is


Local Baha’i – Paul Johns -Tlingit
Paul Johns – Tlingit Baha’i Paul Johns was born in 1930 in Klukwan, Alaska, a small Tlingit Native Village 22 miles north of Haines, Alaska. Not much is known about his early life, except that […]

Local Bahá’i – Marilyn Heaton
Bahá’i Temple, Panama PIONEERING IN PANAMA Our family of 5 with three children under 10 moved from Prescott, Arizona to tropical Panama in 1970 as foreign pioneers to help establish Baha’i communities in a country […]

Local Bahá’í – Claudia Janssen McDermott Schultz
Claudia Janssen McDermott Schultz I was born on April 26th, 1935 at dawn in the San Mateo, California hospital to Alyce Barbara Armstrong Janssen. My father was Horace (Harvey) Lincoln Janssen of Danish descent from […]

Local Bahá’ís – Joyce and Leo Baldwin
Joyce and Leo Baldwin Leo Baldwin, a journalism graduate at Humboldt State University in California, pioneered to Alaska at the age of 22 for the Baha’I Faith. He met and married Joyce, a Tsimshian Indian […]