Let Us Remember - New York Annual Conference

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2012 New York A nnual Conference - 323
VIII. LET US REMEMBER
A.MEMOIRS
Reverend Paul C. Baresel, Jr.
June 16, 1931 - October 18, 2011
Reverend Paul C. Baresel, Jr. passed away in
Greenwood Lake, NY. He was born in the Bronx,
NY, to Paul C. and Bertha Jung Baresel.
As a young man, Paul enlisted in the United States
Navy and served on the USS Conger submarine and
was honorably discharged with commendations for
outstanding service. Following his discharge from
the Navy, he followed in his father’s footsteps and was employed by the New York Bell
Telephone Company. After being assigned to the United Nations he became the line
foreman in charge of telecommunications during the era of Nobel Laureate Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold, the Cuban crisis and visitation by Pope Paul VI.
He experienced a different calling in life, however, and after receiving his degree
from the Boston University School of Theology, he left his position with “Ma Bell” to
receive his first parish assignment in Harriman, NY. Rev. Baresel subsequently served
the following charges: Pine Bush & Walker Valley; Hillside, North Hillside, West
Taghkanic & Glenco Mills; Woodhaven: Epworth Parish; Calicoon, Fremont Center,
Hankins & North Branch; Pine Plains; Highland & Lloyd as well as assisting others in
the area when needed; he continued to do so even after retirement.
Paul was a consummate volunteer in many organizations in all the communities he
served. This included the Monroe Ambulance Corps, Harriman Fire Department,
Pine Bush Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties,
Office of the Aging, Literacy Volunteers, Meals on Wheels and Red Bird Missionary
Conference. He was instrumental in the startup of Harmony House for the Drug
Rehabilitation Center in Harriman, NY, in the late 1960s.
Paul leaves his brother James Baresel and wife Lisa of NC, his daughter Donnalee
Forbes Patch and husband Dwight of Whitefish, MT; his son Paul C. Baresel III and
wife Susan of Greenwood Lake; his grandchildren Dwight Patch III, Dreux Patch,
Paul Baresel IV and Rachel Baresel, as well as cousins, nieces and nephews and many
friends.
He is remembered and missed by family and friends as a compassionate, energetic,
loving and talented man.
Submitted by Paul and Susan Baresel
LET US REMEMBER
After retirement, he played as hard as he had worked. With his wife Nancy, Paul
traveled extensively in their motor home to tour the United States. Together they
continued to enjoy volunteer work with Red Bird Mission and indeed planned their
calendar by the weeks they would spend there. “Back home at the ranch,” much time
was spent woodworking, landscaping, gardening and generally having a good time
with their furry canine children, their human children and grandchildren.
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Reverend William H. Baudendistel
July 18, 1928 – March 31, 2012
Rev. William H. Baudendistel, D. Min., known
fondly as “Dr. Bill,” died peacefully of complications
due to cancer at the age of 83 at Mary’s Meadow,
in Holyoke, MA. His son and daughter were with
him as he crossed the threshold to eternal life. Dr.
Bill moved to Massachusetts in May of 2011; before
that he lived in Mulberry, FL, for twenty-five years.
His beloved wife, Ruth, passed away in 1997, his
cherished son Bill in 2002. He is survived by his sister Susan Liedell and her husband
James Liedell of Yarmouth Port, MA; his son Mark Baudendistel and his wife Ann
Makley of Jackson Hole, WY; his daughter Jan Baudendistel and her husband James
Pewtherer of Pelham, MA; his daughter-in-law Kathy Baudendistel of Lakeland, FL;
his grandchildren Will, Janmarie, Mark, and Jacob Baudendistel of Lakeland, FL; and
his extended family.
Bill Baudendistel was born in Brooklyn, NY, on July 18, 1928. He grew up on Long
Island in Rockville Centre where he attended public schools and St. Mark’s United
Methodist Church. He was very active in the Boy Scouts and earned the rank of Eagle
Scout while in high school. Bill enlisted in the U.S. Navy and spent three years on
board an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea during the aftermath of WWII. He
was yeoman to the chaplain on board ship; this experience sparked a passion for travel
and meeting people of other cultures that lasted throughout his life.
Bill entered college following his honorable discharge from the Navy and met his
future wife Ruth while doing undergraduate work at Baldwin-Wallace College in
Ohio; they were married in June of 1952. Bill entered seminary at Drew University
in New Jersey and was ordained a Methodist minister upon completion of his studies.
He and Ruth then began thirty years of parish ministry in New York and Connecticut
serving the following charges: Uniondale; Port Washington; Armonk; Saugerties &
Centerville; Hamden Plains; Forestville: Asbury; and Philmont (Hillside Charge). He
had a special love of working with young people and ecumenical work. Dr. Bill earned
his Doctorate of Ministry in 1977.
MEMOIRS
Family summers were spent at camp. Dr. Bill was a chaplain and rifle master at Camp
Pinnacle in Lyme, NH, for almost twenty years. Generations of Pinnacle campers
remember the stories that Dr. Bill would tell in full Native American dress around the
campfires; his Native American name was Sageto, “storyteller.”
In their late 50s, Bill and Ruth began a new phase in their ministry: leading groups to
the Holy Land, greater Middle East, and Europe for study and travel based on biblical
teaching. They worked with Educational Opportunities (EO) and Noseworthy Travel,
a division of EO, in Mulberry, FL. They came to know the lands of the Bible just as
well as their own backyard. They made lasting friends wherever they went. When the
family journeyed to the Holy Land to scatter Ruth’s ashes on the Sea of Galilee in 1998,
there was nowhere that people did not approach the group to say, “Hello” and fondly
recall their time with Ruth and Bill. It was Dr. Bill’s goal to help Americans develop a
stronger relationship to the teachings of Christ through “walking in His footsteps” and
coming to know the people and cultures of this part of the world. He and Ruth made
dozens of trips to the Middle East and Mediterranean. After Ruth died, Bill continued
hosting trips until February 2011. During his last months of life, he helped to organize
trips from his Hospice bed and began work on a book of meditations and photos that
he called, “One World, One People, Many Cultures.”
Any visitor to Dr. Bill’s home could see the words of John Wesley, the founder of
Methodism, in a frame on the wall. In part, it read: “Do all the good you can, In all the
ways you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.” Dr. Bill truly lived
by these words. He will be dearly remembered and deeply missed by his family and
tremendous circle of colleagues and friends. His enthusiasm for life, his joy in meeting
others, and his devotion to living the ideals of Christ will always be alive for those
blessed to have known him.
A memorial service for Dr. Baudendistel was held on July 7, 2012, at First Presbyterian
Church, Lakeland, FL.
Submitted by Jan Baudendistel
Reverend Jorge Julio Cortizo
May 27, 1926 – February 18, 2012
Jorge Cortizo passed away at the Lutheran Medical
Center in Brooklyn, NY, after suffering several strokes.
He was 85. Jorge was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, to
Gumersindo Cortizo and Guillermina Aznarez.
Jorge attended Colegiio Eliza Bowman, a Methodist
school, where the seed of faith was planted. He
continued his education at the Escuela de Artes
y Officios San Lorenzo where he became a draftsman. Known for his impeccable
architectural drawings and for being able to draw a straight line without a ruler, his
architectural drawings were used for years to teach future Cuban architects.
He was offered the opportunity to do his theological studies in the USA, but decided
to remain in Cuba. He attended the Matanzas Evangelical Theological Seminary,
graduated in 1951 and was ordained a deacon and elder in the Methodist Church by
Bishop John W. Branscomb.
Jorge met his wife Raquel at the seminary where they were married on the day of
Raquel’s graduation from seminary, one year after his own graduation. The following
year their only child, Dorcas, was born.
In 1968 he was called to New York to shepherd a bilingual church, Immanuel &
First Spanish UMC. This church was formed by the union of two historic churches:
Immanuel Swedish, the first Swedish Methodist church in existence and First Spanish
which was the first Protestant Hispanic church in Brooklyn. He served at Immanuel for
23 years and led separate services in English and Spanish every Sunday.
LET US REMEMBER
Jorge shepherded churches in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the USA. In Puerto Rico he
founded a Methodist church in the community of Country Club, a sector in the north
of San Juan. The congregation began meeting in the carport of a house and eventually
outgrew the facilities. From 1962 to 1966 he served as a professor at the Evangelical
Seminary in Rio Piedras. By the time Jorge left for his next call, the congregation had
bought property where eventually a new church was constructed. In his next call he
became a true “circuit rider” as he was appointed shepherd of four churches requiring
him to travel between all four in the countryside and town of Hatillo.
Personal evangelism was his love and when asked how the new people arrived at
Immanuel’s doorstep, he said, “They were won one at a time.” For years he was a
spiritual counselor for men in Anchor House. He also ministered to AIDS patients in
the surrounding community. He was a leader in the late 60s and early 70s in the war
against neighborhood prostitution and car theft. Cars were being burned at Immanuel’s
doors in those rough days. As a result, he was rewarded with death threats, but refused
to leave the community. Jorge never drew attention to himself; the spotlight was
always on Christ.
His specific passions were for cats, opera, and books. He loved to read theological
books, Latin American literature, history, and good literature in general.
Jorge is survived by his wife Raquel and daughter Dorcas who were with him at the
moment of death. He is also survived by grandchildren Hilary and Devin, son-in-law
David Kimball, brothers Guillermo, Orlando, Leonel, and sister Esther.
Submitted by Dorcas C. Kimball
Reverend Lloyd A. Duren
January 12, 1924 – July 7, 2011
Pastor Lloyd A. Duren died of complications of heart
disease and kidney cancer at Westchester Medical
Center after a long and fruitful ministry.
Even as his health failed in later years, he maintained
an active life of reading, thought and faith,
communicating with family and friends in social
action from his computer desk in his home at The
Pines in Ossining, NY. He continued to study actively, teaching on-line courses in
philosophy within the last few years. He stayed abreast of technology so as to remain
active with passions, not only in social action, but also photography and family, closely
following the growth and activities of his grandchildren.
MEMOIRS
His career in Methodist ministry was summarized adeptly in the “Let Us Remember“
announcement of July 21, and the notice was especially appreciated by the family,
who, living a distance from the lower Hudson Valley, kept in close touch and visited,
but were less familiar with the people and places of his activities.
Pastor Lloyd Duren served our conference at Brooklyn: Warren Street; Bridgeport:
Newfield; and Huntington. In 1966 he was appointed to Schenectady: First, later
becoming the executive secretary of Better Neighborhoods Inc. in Schenectady. Lloyd
returned to the NYC conference in 1974 to serve the following charges: Brooklyn: St.
Mark’s; and Poughkeepsie: Trinity. After retiring in 1986, he served as director of the
New York Methodist Credit Union in White Plains, NY, for several years and continued
to volunteer his time on social action projects at Riverside Church in Manhattan, NY.
Lloyd is survived by three sons: Stephen and Margaret Duren of Waterville, ME; Mark
and Jan of Sarasota, FL; Thomas Duren of Schenectady, NY; two granddaughters,
Gwendolyn and Leigh of Portland, ME, and grandson, Jason Duren. He was
predeceased by his wife, Janice, on April 26, 2006 and a son, Paul, in 1980.
At First UMC in Schenectady, NY, he was pastor and subsequently executive director
of Better Neighborhoods Incorporated, which made a substantial contribution to
affordable housing in that city.
Thus, the family is also thankful for the efforts of “Pastor Tony” (Reverend Beck) in
helping plan a memorial service last August in Beacon, where New York conference
members and lower Hudson Valley friends and colleagues gave accounts of the latter
years of his life. At a graveside service at Vale Cemetery in Schenectady, where Lloyd
is buried next to his oldest son Paul. Reverend Daniel Ling completed the circle of
service, faith, and family, with folk music from the era of social change performed by
Lloyd’s son Thomas.
His father served in the Maine Seacoast Ministry in the mid 1950s at the small church
on the remote island of Frenchboro, accessible only by ferry from the “downeast”
Maine coast. A picture of the harbor and church bell, painted by a parishioner at
Lloyd’s church in Huntington, hangs in Steve’s house.
It is a reminder not only of his ministry, but of his fatherhood, including his love for
photography and for outdoor activities such as camping, hiking, and canoeing. He
combined his interest in astronomy, to view the heavens, while on family camping
trips. Lloyd was a highly skilled photographer who left a life record of family photos
that are being cataloged and reviewed by his son Mark. Lloyd also photographed
people in the course of social and economic struggle and change, not only in the
United States, but in his visits to Vietnam, Central America, and England, where he
traveled with his wife, Janice. Over the years, some of these photos became exhibits
that enlightened others about social strife.
But they are fondly remembered by the family in another way. On a summer-long
camping trip when the boys were young, Lloyd was often attending post graduate
courses part of the day. A graduate of Harvard University and Union Theological
Seminary, he never stopped learning or examining moral, ethical and religious
concepts of the times. But he left time for campfires, swimming, canoeing and hiking
with family. His love for these activities endured long past their childhood, when he
continued to arrange camping and canoeing trips that served as family reunions.
A tradition may have begun in New Hampshire at Lloyd’s family camp, built by his
father, also a Methodist minister. There the family would gather, not only for love of
the outdoors, but for the Sunday sings on the camp porch—favorite hymns to lantern
light. Growing up with visits to that camp, Lloyd had developed his love of hiking,
climbing the high peaks of the Presidential Range in the nearby White Mountains.
Lloyd hiked, camped and canoed with family at sites from Wyoming and Montana
to Maine, the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and Lilly Bay on Moosehead in
Maine being two favorite venues. Exploring the Catskills and Adirondacks on foot
each summer lead to snowshoeing and winter camping trips there as well. Long canoecamping trips included the rugged Allagash of northern Maine, the Boundary Waters
area of northern Minnesota, the Flambeau of Wisconsin, and day trips from Schoharie
Creek in the Catskills, to the upper Hudson River in the Adirondacks, to Moosehead
Lake and the Penobscot River in Maine.
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This led to hiking the entire Appalachian Trail in sections over the years, a goal the
family pursued on camping trips from the Carolinas to Maine. Lloyd, accompanied by
all or some of the sons according to their ages and the length of the hike, would cover
sections of the trail, both on day hikes and multiday backpacking jaunts, the longest
through the wilds of Maine, east and north to the summit of Mt. Katahdin.
He continued these activities with wife Janice long after the sons were grown, often
planning a camping trip that included family visits.
Thus, “I lift up my eyes to the hills…” had a powerful literal and spiritual meaning to
Lloyd, a unifying element in his personal and public life. Known to family, as father,
grandfather and pastor, he is lovingly recalled by the opening of that psalm.
Submitted by Stephen and Mark Duren
Reverend William H. Hunter, III
July 24, 1934 – September 11, 2011
Reverend William H. Hunter, OSL, passed to the
Risen Lord on the 11th day of September, 2011. A
minister of Jesus Christ, he was called to ministry
in 1951, professed in The Order of St. Luke in 1956,
was ordained by the New York Conference of The
United Methodist Church as Deacon in 1957 and
Elder in 1959.
He grew in faith at Delaware Avenue UMC in Lorain, OH. Bill graduated from Lorain
High School in 1952 where he was on the tennis team, a member of DeMolay and a
model railroad enthusiast. He began furthering his education at Mount Union College,
Alliance, OH.
1954-1956, Portage County (Palmyra) and Mahoning County: Rev. Hunter served
the Palmyra and Pricetown UMCs while attending Mount Union College in Alliance.
During his ministry, both growing churches constructed additions, their progress led
finally to full-time ministry at each church.
1956-1957: A parish pastor throughout life, he served Orange County churches while
attending seminary at The School of Theology at Drew University, Madison, NJ.
1957-1960: He was appointed to Harriman and Southfields UMCs. While there, he
joined Shirley Marie Risch, a pastor’s daughter, in holy matrimony.
MEMOIRS
1960-1963: Shokan Area: He served the UMCs at Ashokan, Glenford and West Hurley,
now The Reservoir Church. In addition to the busy schedule of serving these three
churches, he was active as counselor, then director of camping programs at nearby Camp
Epworth, High Falls.
1963-1966, Columbia County: Pastor Bill served at Hillsdale and North Hillsdale
UMCs. While there, he began church school teacher-training as a round-robin among
county school districts through the Columbia County Council of Churches. Bill helped
plan chaplaincy rotation among area clergy for Memorial Hospital of Columbia
County at Hudson. He joined men in the community to revive Boy Scouting through
the church.
1966-1968, Westchester County: VanCortlandville UMC, where he was known for his
youth-fellowship and scouting work, was home for a short time for the Hunters. While
there, he directed religious programming over radio station WHUD on behalf of the
Peekskill Area Pastors’ Association (PAPA). During this time he completed the yearlong program of the County Department of Social Services that led to his Certificate
of Pastoral Care, while serving residents in several of its facilities.
1968 – 1978, Greene County: Coxsackie and Earlton UMCs were also served by Rev.
Hunter, then as interim at Cairo, South Cairo and Round Top UMCs from 1976-1978.
He also served as Protestant Chaplain, NYS Correctional Facility at West Coxsackie;
Chairman, Greene County Narcotics Guidance Council; and member, Coxsackie
Town/Village Cablevision Commission.
1978-1982, Queens County (New York City): Rev. Hunter served Bayside UMC with
its close relationship to Colonial Reformed Church and worked with the churches’
scout groups, including the only “open” scout unit in the community, and Camp
Melville in Putnam County which was maintained for outdoor purposes. “Pastor Bill”
served as President, Queens’ Federation of Churches Emergency Food Pantry, along
with Mrs. Hunter’s very active partnership.
1982-1986: Rhinebeck: He was appointed to Rhinebeck’s Garrettson Memorial and
Hillside UMCs. Special in the Hillside Church was its warm welcome to developmentally
challenged students at nearby boarding schools, who often outnumbered church
members at services.
1986-1990, Delaware County: Rev. Hunter also served Hancock UMC. He thus came
within a few miles of following in the footsteps of his father-in-law, Rev. W. Stanley
Risch, who had served UMCs in East Branch, Fishes Eddy and Harvard. Shirley spent
part of her elementary years at East Branch and was part of the church choir there. He
oversaw the conference’s Camp Kingswood during its off season. Summertime, he
was counselor and finally director of church canoe camps based there.
He was a member of the Hancock Rotary Club and on the local Board when Literacy
Volunteers formed as independent R.E.A.D., seeking freedom to better serve the area.
In addition, he worked with The American Red Cross and Civil Defense authorities in
Delaware, Sullivan and Wayne Counties to coordinate emergency services to the area.
1990-1993. For one year Pastor Bill was appointed to the Georgetown & Long Ridge
Churches; the next two years he served the Georgetown congregation.
Following retirement from full-time ministry, the Hunters settled in Kingston and
into life within the pews of Saint James UMC. He was interim or contract pastor
at several churches: Port Ewen Reformed; Shokan and Mt. Tremper Reformed; and
Union Center Community. He participated in several volunteer activities at St. James
UMC and through the Kingston Area Council of Churches during this time.
Rev. Hunter earned the STM degree from NY Theological Seminary; CPE from the
Hudson River Counseling Service, Hawthorne NY; the M.Div. degree from Drew
University, Madison, NJ; and BA in psychology from Mt. Union College, Alliance,
OH. Throughout his full-time service he maintained studies in a variety of ministryrelated subjects, with emphasis on the helping sciences.
Concurrent with pastoral duties were denominational assignments. Most notable
were leadership of the Metropolitan-area Television, Radio and Film Commission
(TRAFCO) for some years, then its Leadership Development Committee. A rare
privilege was being a small part of the nation-wide team that assisted the development
of the Church’s current The United Methodist Hymnal 1989 and The United Methodist
Book of Worship 1992.
LET US REMEMBER
Following 9/11, he was a founding member of the NY Annual Conference Disaster
Preparedness and Response team; continued with disaster, then health and safety
work with Ulster County’s American Red Cross. He was personally involved in the
Kingston area flood of 2005 and in Walton, NY, in 2006. He initiated the Ulster County
Emergency Chaplain Corps through the Kingston Area Council of Churches.
Pastor Bill was a modest contributor to religious periodicals, and at one time wrote
the “Pastor’s Pen” column for a local weekly (The Ulster County, NY Townsman
in the early 1960s). He also had short essays published in “The Upper Room” daily
devotional publication.
Bill was born July 24, 1934, in Elizabeth, NY, the son of William H. Hunter Jr., a
metallurgist, and Elinor (Welch) Louise. He grew up in Lorain, OH, a steel mill town
on Lake Erie. Mrs. Shirley Hunter is a daughter of the late Rev. W. Stanley Risch
and Ethel E. (Floughton). Their sons William H. IV of Brooklyn and Timothy R. of
Hudson, NY, predeceased him. The Hunters have six grandchildren: Timothy Jr., Jane,
Elizabeth, Julianne, Kevin and Chelsea; and three great-grandchildren. Also surviving
is a sister, Elinor Louise Bayse of Cleveland, OH.
Rev. Hunter’s body was donated to Albany Medical College. A Service of Death and
Resurrection was held at St. James UMC, Fair and Pearl Streets, on September 24th,
2011 in Kingston, NY.
Submitted by Julianne Hunter
Reverend James “Jim” R. McGraw
December 3, 1935 to May 28, 2012
Rev. James “Jim” Robert McGraw, 76, of New York
City, passed away at home.
He was an author and retired minister, serving over
the years as senior pastor at Windsor Terrace 19611963; Brooklyn: Cuyler-Warren Street 1963-1965;
Lexington UMC; Editor, Renewal Magazine 19651974; Researcher, Ministerial Inter-Faith Association
1974-1980; Research Associate, New York City Mission Society 1980-1984; Human
Rights Specialist, NY State Division of Human Rights 1984-1985; Writer Consultant
for the General Board of Global Ministries 1985-1986; returning to pastoral ministry
in 1986 at two Manhattan churches: Lexington Avenue 1986-1992; and John Street
1992-2003; and entered the retired relationship in 2003. He took great pride that the
John Street UMC was the oldest Methodist society in America, dating back to 1766,
and performed much research on the church’s history.
MEMOIRS
Always a fan of theater and acting, Rev. McGraw appeared in several productions in
retirement, including several episodes of the HBO series The Sopranos and the movie,
The Interpreter.
His last published work was a book, Prayers from Ground Zero, a collection of his
Sunday morning prayers after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The John Street
UMC is located just two-and-a-half blocks from where the World Trade Center towers
once stood. Rev. McGraw not only saw, but also felt, the devastation of the terrorist
attacks as every person in his congregation was affected by the events of ‘9-11.’
He was instrumental in the healing process for so many working in the financial
district as he developed a weekly “Wonderful Wall Street Wednesday” service at noon
each week, packing the church to full capacity with those who were dealing with the
losses and the scars of the terrorist attack. Many of the first services hosted Ground
Zero workers dealing with the devastation as they sifted through the rumble. Over the
weeks and months to follow, they were replaced by many others who worked in the
Financial District that lost friends and co-workers in the tragedy, struggling to make
sense of that event and turning to God and His Word for comfort.
Those Wednesday services continue to this day at the John Street UMC, a reminder of
the impact Rev. McGraw had on the church and his community.
He wrote seven books with comic and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, including Up
from Nigger and Dick Gregory’s Bible Tales, and was editor for 20 years at Adherent
Magazine and Renewal Magazine. He was a frequent contributor to Christianity in
Crisis Magazine and was involved with the General Board of Global Ministries of
The United Methodist Church, where he wrote speeches and documented the church’s
doctrine. He was also a speechwriter for former New York State Comptroller and onetime gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall.
Rev. McGraw, along with Dick Gregory, was extensively involved in the civil rights
movement in the 1960s and 1970s, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King and
Malcom X in a quest to bring civil and human rights to the forefront of the country’s
consciousness.
“I don’t know where it is you go when you die, but it’s a much better place now that
Jim McGraw is there,” said Dick Gregory after learning of Rev. McGraw’s death.
“What a beautiful human being he was.”
Randy Nugent, former general secretary to the General Board of Global Ministries
of The UMC, said Rev. McGraw was “a profound thinker, a prolific writer, and a
powerful preacher whose sermons both challenged the intellect and nurtured the spirit.
He was my good friend and I will miss him dearly.”
Growing up in Ft. Wayne, IN, he graduated South Side High School where he
lettered in football and was named to the All-City team. He also developed a love for
performing magic during this time, taking several family trips to the Colon, MI, Magic
Festival, where the Blackstone family operated a magic factory. He later became close
friends with Harry Blackstone Jr. He was active in his high school’s drama department,
appearing in many plays during his prep days.
In 1958, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
communications and speech. While attending Northwestern, he was a member of the
Delta Upsilon fraternity. He was also involved in the drama department, appearing in
several plays – including The WA MU Show. He was also a volunteer trainer for the
football team under Coach Ara Parseghian.
Rev. McGraw was preceded in death by his parents, Kenneth Michael and Rose
Josephine (Duthie) McGraw. He is survived by a brother Kenneth Eugene “Gene”
(Mary) McGraw of East Lansing, MI, a nephew, Scott (Marcia) McGraw of Portage,
MI, a niece, Shanna (Bill) Mikolic of Holt, MI, and three great-nephews and two
great-nieces.
A service was held on July 8, 2012, at the John Street UMC with Rev. Jason P.
Radmacher officiating. Fellow clergy, friends, family and former congregational
members attended with several giving personal testimonials as to the love and
friendship they shared with Rev. McGraw, including comic and civil rights activist
Dick Gregory and Rev. Dr. Randy Nugent, former general secretary of the General
Board of Global Ministries of The UMC.
LET US REMEMBER
After graduation from Northwestern, he attended Yale University Divinity School
where he received a master’s degree in divinity in 1960. His first pastoral experience
was at New Milford (CT) Methodist Church.
Rev. McGraw’s organs were donated to the New York University Hospital for research.
His cremains will be spread in the garden area adjacent to the John Street UMC at a
future date.
Submitted by Scott McGraw
Reverend Richard S. Parker
May 29, 1930 – July 12, 2011
Richard S. (Dick) Parker, eldest of three sons of
Doris Mae (Ela) and George Lloyd Parker, was born
in Springfield, Mass. Richard studied violin through
high school, worked one summer as a lumberjack,
and after the war worked at his father’s gas station.
He studied English at Brown University, where he
met Grace Irene Keefer, a pastor’s daughter. They
were married in 1951, and their extraordinary partnership lasted until her death in 2005.
Richard earned his Master of Divinity at Yale, and was ordained in 1954, Deacon’s
Orders and received Elder’s Orders in 1956. From 1951 until his retirement in 1997,
Rev. Parker served churches in South Meriden 1952-1955; and Kensington 19551958, in CT; then in Islip 1958-1968; Pougkeepsie: Trinity 1968-1973; Manhattan:
Broadway Temple 1979-1987; and Port Washington 1987-1997. In Islip, he
successfully led his congregation through a crisis of racial tension and fear following
the appointment of an African-American student pastor. He also served as chaplain
of the Islip Fire Department. In Poughkeepsie he was instrumental in building low
and moderate income housing at Tubman Terrace, a Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) project in which Trinity Methodist partnered with the local African Methodist
Episcopal congregation.
Rev. Parker also served six years as Long Island West District Superintendent from
1973-1979. He was ex-officio member of the board of New York Methodist Hospital
(NYM). Dick remained on the hospital board for over 38 years, chairing the Committee
on Quality Care for many years. For the past several years, he administered the
Hospital’s Pastor’s Clinic two or three times each year. He also served for many years
on the board of the Brooklyn UMC Home, heading the Quality Assurance Committee.
MEMOIRS
After retirement in 1997, he served as an interim Superintendant of the Methodist
Connecticut/New York District, and also as interim pastor of the Washington Square
and Island Park congregations.
Rev. Parker was influential in The United Methodist Church, through the New York
Conference and national levels. He is remembered for arguing several cases before the
Methodist Judicial Council, chairing the campaign to renovate the Methodist Building
in Washington, D.C., and leading the Methodist Federation for Social Action’s ‘Next
100 Years’ campaign. A member of the NY Board of Ordained Ministry, he mentored
many young clergy, and was widely regarded for his passionate and effective leadership
on issues of peace, justice, and inclusion. A compassionate champion of underprivileged
and underrepresented persons, many consider him “a giant” in the church.
A founding member of Methodists in New Directions (MIND), Rev. Parker served
three years on the steering committee, and has been called “a champion of LGBT
people (who) tirelessly fought to end the Church’s prejudice and discrimination.”
Dick and Grace led events at Camp Quinipet on Shelter Island, and a summer work
camp for young seminarians in Alaska in 1963. They made one mission trip to Puerto
Rico, another to bring needed medications to Mozambique, and a dangerous peace
mission to Nicaragua during the civil war in that country where the presence of their
mission group served to temporarily protect the villages where they stayed from roving
militia. They witnessed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s powerful speech at the March on
Washington on August 28, 1963.
Dick served as Fleet Chaplain for the South Bay Cruising Club (SBCC) of Long
Island, where he and Grace were active and enthusiastic members since 1968, cruising
each summer with family and friends in successive sailboats named “Charisma” for
the (Amazing) Grace of God.
Richard Parker died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City on July
12, 2011, with his daughter at his side; his ashes were interred in the Atlantic Ocean.
Rev. Parker leaves three sons and a daughter: Kenneth Parker of Gloucester, MA;
Deborah Parker of Peekskill, NY; Alan Parker of Sherman, CT; and Rev. Petero Sabune
and his wife Dr. Maureen Fonseca Sabune of Dobbs Ferry, NY; six grandchildren and
three great grandchildren survive; two brothers, David and wife Dorothy Parker of La
Jolla, CA; Kenneth and wife Nancy Parker of Lewisville, TX; his cousin Norris T. Ela,
of South Miami Beach, FL; and his sister-in-law Mary Lou Tobias of Brooklyn, NY.
Submitted by Deborah Parker
Reverend Max Andrew Schwindt
April 6, 1940 - March 5, 2012
Reverend Max Andrew Schwindt was born in West
Lafayette, OH. His father, Howard (Doc) Schwindt
expected him to go into medicine. He “rebelled”
and chose to major in Religious Studies at Ohio
Wesleyan University, where he met the love of his
life, Enid, also a Religious Studies major. They
graduated, got married, and moved to New Jersey,
where Max enrolled in Drew Seminary. Their son, David, was born in New Jersey.
In the late 1970s, Reverend Schwindt was diagnosed with an incipient form of
Parkinson’s disease and had to apply for disability status which he received in 1981,
when the family moved to Levittown, Long Island. He served for a number of years
at CW Post Campus of Long Island University, as an assistant director of admissions.
Later on, the ravages of Parkinson’s began to affect his mobility. He moved into a
professional care facility in Albuquerque, NM where his son, David, by then an M.D.,
had connections. Later, as his condition worsened, he was moved to a facility, the
Groton Regency, in Groton, CT.
LET US REMEMBER
After receiving his Master of Divinity degree, he was ordained deacon in 1963 and
joined the North East Ohio Conference. He immediately transferred to the New York
East Conference, where he received his elder’s orders at the annual conference of
1966. Max was appointed to churches in Queens: Middle Village, 1965-1967 (where
his daughter, Jennifer, was born); East Hampton, 1967-1968; Treadwell, 1978-1980;
and Valley Stream, 1980-1981.
In spite of the excellent care at Groton Regency, his Parkinson’s condition continued to
progress, until he was unable to feed himself and required a colostomy and tracheotomy.
On March 5, 2012, at the age of 71, he “finished his course in faith.” He is survived by a son,
David Schwindt, M.D. of Mystic, CT, and a daughter, Jennifer B. Schwindt of Sarasota,
FL. He is also survived by two grandchildren, Alexander and Kiara Schwindt of Mystic,
CT, a sister, Dorothy Davis of OH, and a brother, Charles Schwindt, M.D. of Florida.
Submitted by Rev. Richard (“Dick”) C. Williams
Reverend William Arthur Studwell
May 27, 1924 - February 22, 2012
William A. Studwell of Winter Park, FL and Silver
Spring, MD died unexpectedly at the age of 87 at
Broward General Medical Center in Ft. Lauderdale,
FL. He was born in Greenwich, CT and was the
oldest of the five children of George and Marjorie
Odell Studwell. He had a life-long love of music
and sang in the Episcopal Church choir as a boy, and
later in the churches he served. He graduated from
Stamford High School with honors and attended Trinity College in Hartford for one
year before entering active duty in the United States Army.
He served in the combat infantry in France from 1944 to 1946 with the 66th “Black
Panther” Division as an anti-tank gunner and a French interpreter. Upon returning
from the war Bill married his high school sweetheart Margaret “Peggy” Worley on
September 3, 1946. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College and received
a Master of Divinity Degree from Yale Divinity School. Bill began his ministry in
the New York East Conference in 1950 and served the High Ridge, Pound Ridge,
and Sellecks Corners churches. Through the New York East Conference he received
Deacon’s Orders in 1950 and was ordained an Elder in 1952, continuing to serve the
Pound Ridge and Sellecks Corners churches until his departure to India to become
Pastor of the Union Church of New Delhi in 1959.
MEMOIRS
As minister to members of many denominations, he played an influential role in the
lives of the US expatriate community. While interfacing with citizens from around the
globe to bring about the Green Revolution of the 1960s, Bill developed a deep respect
and affection for the Indian people that lasted all his life.
Upon return to the United States in 1965, he served the Clinton Avenue Church in
Kingston, NY, and in 1970 the UMC in Pleasantville, NY. After Peggy’s death in
1973, Bill led a church sponsored tour back to India where he met Barbara Richmond,
a widow from Chappaqua, NY. The couple married in Maitland, FL, the following
year and combined their large family in the Pleasantville parsonage. Bill continued to
serve the church and the community and was a member of the Pleasantville Volunteer
Ambulance Corps for ten years.
After retiring from the New York Conference in 1984, Bill continued his ministry in
Florida serving as Associate Pastor at the Clermont Methodist Church in Clermont,
and then as Pastor of Christ Methodist Church in Orlando. He was proud to have
officiated in the marriage of all nine of his children, several times sharing the service
with clergy of other faiths.
In retirement Bill was ecumenical in his thinking and an enthusiastic student of world
affairs. He enjoyed playing golf and travelling, remaining active until the end of his
life. His greatest pleasure was following the lives of his many children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
Bill Studwell is survived by his wife, Barbara Studwell; his sisters, Carol de la Torre
of Winston-Salem, NC, and Judy Studwell Hunt of Sarasota, FL; his children, Cheryl
Studwell Lazaroff of Tucson, AZ, Thomas Studwell of New York, NY, Kathryn
Studwell Sabino of Sherburne, NY, Philip Studwell of Brunswick, ME, David
Studwell of Ithaca, NY, Patricia Studwell Vaughan of Granger, IN; his stepchildren,
Clint Richmond of Brookline, MA, Donna Richmond Selden of Silver Springs, MD,
and Gail Richmond Robinson of Midlothian, VA; 19 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. A memorial service was held in Orlando, Florida on February 11, 2012.
Submitted by Barbara Studwell and Family
Reverend Vernon Charles Stutzman
December 16, 1918 – August 10, 2011
Vernon Charles Stutzman was the eldest of six
children born to Charles Stutzman and Lura
Vermilion Stutzman in the Ransom, KS, community
on a large wheat and cattle farm. He attended a
single-room country grade school and Ransom Rural
High School. He was a graduate of Fort Hays Kansas
State University and Southern Methodist University
Perkins School of Theology. He was ordained a deacon in the North Texas Annual
Conference and later transferred to the NYAC in 1953 and receiving elder’s orders in
that year.
In retirement, Vernon and Evelyn returned to her home state of North Carolina and
settled in Rutherfordton near family. Evelyn died in 1996 after celebrating 50 years of
marriage. The next year, Vernon married Evelyn’s widowed younger sister, Marjorie
Smithey Bickers, who survives him.
Vernon lived a life of community service in retirement and made a considerable
impact in Rutherfordton. The local community described him as an example of a true
LET US REMEMBER
Vernon’s early ministry included the Protestant chaplaincy at D.C. General Hospital
in Washington, D.C. from 1944 to 1946. It was there he met Evelyn Smithey, a
nurse from Roaring River, NC. The ministry there also sparked his interest in
hospital administration. Vernon and Evelyn married and moved to New York City
in 1946 to pursue an additional degree at Columbia University School of Hospital
Administration. Vernon served as Assistant Director of the Jewish Hospital of
Brooklyn and Administrator of Staten Island Hospital. Charles, Susan, and Ken were
born during this time. Being an ordained minister with credentials and experience in
hospital administration made him uniquely qualified to assume the leadership of the
New York Methodist Hospital. He served as CEO for 22 years, from 1953 until his
retirement in 1975. Vernon was a Preceptor and Lecturer at Columbia University, a
Life Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a Life Member of
the American Hospital Association, and a Special Consultant to the United Methodist
Division of Health and Welfare Ministries.
“gentle-man” who made lasting contributions to the people of Rutherford County. The
tribute to him in the local newspaper included the following: “Stutzman co-founded
Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity and was instrumental in the development of
the Recreation Trust Fund in Rutherfordton. Rutherfordton Mayor Jimmy Dancy said,
‘He was a strong person in our community and felt the needs of our whole community.
In reality, he is the one who got the Recreation Trust Fund and Habitat for Humanity
started.’” Since its inception in the late 1980s, Habitat volunteers have completed 64
homes. Although he had retired from active volunteering with Habitat, until last spring
he still attended monthly Board meetings and also presented the traditional Bible to
Habitat homeowners at each new home dedication. Dr. Ernest Yelton, co-founder of
Habitat, said Stutzman was a “man you’d want to model your life after.” Rutherfordton
Town Manager, Karen Andrews said: “He was one of those folks who was a pillar of
our community and although he wasn’t from here, this was his home.” He was also an
active volunteer with the Norris Public Library and the First UMC in Rutherfordton.
Vernon is survived by his wife, Marjorie, siblings, Dorothy Walters, Mildred Stoddard,
Velma McConnell, and Ray; sons, Charles and Ken, step-children, Wanda Bickers and
Neal Bickers, 5 grandchildren, 2 step-grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren. His
remains are interred in the family plot at the Rutherfordton Cemetery next to his wife
Evelyn and daughter, Susan.
Submitted by Ken Stutzman
Pastor Carolyn G. Watson
April 25, 1941 – February 21, 2012
Our beloved Carolyn G. Watson passed away peacefully
at 70 years of age, surrounded by her family.
MEMOIRS
Carolyn was born in Queens, NY, to Doris and
Joseph Sommer. She spent many cherished years
in upstate New York as a resident of Tannersville
and later, Jewett; she loved the mountains, working
at an antique store, volunteering for Hospice and
spending time with friends. In 2010, she moved to Staten Island to be closer to her
family. Carolyn was a spiritual counselor, an artist and created many beautiful things.
Carolyn Watson took great joy in her faith, helping others, nature, her artwork, her
grandchildren, her cats and gardening. Carolyn led a life of simple abundance.
Pastor Watson’s ministry in the New York Annual Conference as a Local Pastor
included appointments to churches in Castle Heights, Kaaterskill: Tannersville,
Hunter, Haines Falls and Platte Cove, NY.
Carolyn is survived by her two daughters, Karen Carbo of Staten Island, NY, and
Kristie Dickinson of Middleton, MA; three grandchildren, Calvin, Nolan and Kaitlyn;
sister-in-law Mildred Sommer, niece Amy and nephew Eric and their families; and
many dear cousins and friends. Carolyn was predeceased by her brother, Bob, and
dear niece, Lori.
A memorial service was held on March 2, 2012, at the Windham-Hensonville UMC in
Windham, NY, led by close friend and spiritual mentor, Rev. Tilda Norberg.
Submitted by Karen Corbo
B.
WORKERS IN THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
“These all died in Faith” Hebrews 11:13
Listed are those who have passed in the 10 years prior to this Annual Conference; for
information on those who have passed before June, 2002, please reference earlier Journals.
1.
NAME
CLERGY MEMBERS OF THE CONFERENCE
ENTERED
MINISTRY
EFFEC. YEARS
DATE OF
DEATH
AGE INTERMENT
LET US REMEMBER
Donald W. Hamblin
1942 60
July 13,2002 84
St. Paul’s Cemetery, Swiftwater, PA
Ronald Law
1948 54
July 26,2002 87
Southlawn Cemetery, Utica, OH
Richard W. Moore
1941 61
August 13,2002 84
Westbrookville Cemetery
Pedro P. Piron
1977 25
August 172002 72
El Circado, Dominican Republic
Walter Steinard
1960 42 September 21,2002 60
John Aye Ross
1957 45
September 242002 92
William Henry Perkins
1949 53 September 30,2002 74
Roy C. Nichols
1949 53
October 9,2002 84
Harrison Ernest Davis
1931 71
November 8,2002 90
Donated, Yale Medical School
Alan Deryck Moon
1953 49 November 13,2002 73
Cold Spring Cemetery, NJ
Robert R. Wright
1937 65 November 25,2002 84
Kenneth Brend Truran
1934 66
January 11,2003 91
Edwin Jeremy Arthur
1957 46
March 15,2003 69
Paul Warren Brown
1951 52
April 3,2003 76
Louis E. Young
1940 63
July 4,2003 88
Ashes Scattered Over Family Garden,
Center Harbor, NH
Ruthenia Helen Finley
1980 23
August 28,2003 70
Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
Laton E. Holmgren
1940 64
January 18,2004 88
Joseph William Bell
1936 68
February 2,2004 90
C. Wesley Christman, Jr.
1931 73
February 4,2004 95
Charles Wesley Lee
1939 65
March 23,2004 93
John E. Zampier
1979 25
April 8,2004 56
Ian Oakley Reid
1970 34
April 18,2004 57
Montrepose Cemetery, Rhinebeck, NY
Edward H. Holmes
1945 59
April 27,2004 85
Lebanon Baptist Cem., Urbanna, VA
Matthew Adams, Jr.
1977 27
May 8,2004 60
Richard C. Griffin
1987 17
July 11,2004 59
St. John’s Cemetery, Norwalk, CT
Richard L. Elder
1977 27
July 20,2004 62
Martha Kenoyer Lamb
1981 23 September 17,2004 77
Sanford C. Stamper
1969 36
October 6,2004 57
Edmundo G. Morgado
1936 69
January 2,2005 96
Donald John Rooney
1950 55
February 20,2005 75
Pt. Washington Nassau Knolls Cemetery,
Pt. Washington, NY
David V. Samuelson
1965 40
April 19,2005 94
H. Burnham Kirkland
1944 61
May 6,2005 87
Earl Sanford McCary
1951 54
May 21,2005 80
J. Wesley Day
1932 73
June 5,2005 94
Barber L. Waters
1948 55
June 19,2005 81
Howard Leslie Grant
1964 41
July 6,2005 83
Joseph G. Bailey
1947 58
September 9,2005 81
Arthur Stephen Marshall
1952 53
December 4,2005 87
Greenwood Memory Lawn Crematory,
Phoenix, AZ
James Joshua Thomas
1968
December 19,2005 87
Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, MD
James E. Fitzgerald
1969 37
January 28,2006 60
Soon Man Rhim
1964 42
March 4,2006 79
George Washington Memorial Park,
Paramus, NJ
Harry Leon Bryant
1962 44
March 20,2006 84
Ralph Bainbridge
1960 46
May 12,2006 84
CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
NAME
ENTERED
MINISTRY
EFFEC. YEARS
Gerald H. Sargent
1943 63
Ivan Jerome Roberts
1983 23
Duncan MacKenzie
1954 52
John Monroe Vayhinger
1940 66
James Jay Benson
1954 52
Marion Case Cox
1961 45
Robert Amasa Gevert
1930
Judith A. Mills
1978 28
Latimore B. Neale
1943 64
Odella Barksdale Williamson 1989 17
John Gordon Chamberlain
1933 73
Jacob Marco Hunsberger
1938 68
Kenneth H. Davis
1957 50
James L. White
1953 54
Phillip E. Sanbeck
1968 39
Gene Martin Smith
1996 11
Arthur Renfro Crowell
1949 58
Paul Frederick Abel
1950 57
George Camilleri
1972 35
Arthur Merlin Tingue
1953 54
Nicholas Nappi
1953 54
Calvin O. Pressley
1962 45
Roger Leslie Bauer
1960 47
Angel Manuel Arus
1951 56
Jeffrey Alan Glassey
1973 34
Arthur Thomas Tedcastle
1973 74
Nathaniel O. Thorpe
2000
7
Robert A. Pollard
1944 64
Reese E. Griffin
1947 61
William A. Robbins
1944 64
Clarence S. Bigler
1947 61
Robert K. Fell
1947 61
Ethelyn Bennett
1991 18
Roger Don Riley
1956 53
Austin Armitstead
1951 58
M. Lawrence Snow
1954 55
Herbert William Detweiler
1969 40
Constance Jackson
1993 16
John Seongmo Park
1979 30
William C. Carroll
1946 61
Frederick Craig Clark
1960 49
Harold Monroe Jenkins
1951 58
Claude R. Welch
1945 64
Harold Lee Beaumont
1940 69
Francis R. Lewis
1949 60
F. Allan Kirton
2004
Robert Standish Hamilton
1951 49
Duncan T. Trueman
1957 53
Evelyn Newman
1975 35
Helen Ayer Lombard
1970 40
Charlotte Ann Jaroscsak
1987 23
Hak Hee Nam
1987 23
Ellen Oliveto
1989 21
Charles A. Melano
Jodey R. Williams
2008
2
DATE OF
DEATH
AGE INTERMENT
March 3,2006 89
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
April 5,2006 69
April 8,2006 81
June 11,2006 90
Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, CO
June 16, 2 006 77
July 7,2006 69
August 26,2006
September 17,2006 62
October 7,2006 89
October 27,2006 73
November 29,2006 93
January 30,2007 91
Williamsport, PA
February 28,2007 73
Evergreen Cemetery, Bethel, NY
March 6,2007 76
Dighton, MA
March 12,2007 84
May 16,2007 63
June 27,2007 88
National Veterans Cemetery, Liberty, NY
July 19,2007 85
Wilmore, KY
July 22,2007 59
July 22,2007 77
Waldoboro, Maine
August 192007 79
Martha’s Vineyard
October 15,2007 80
Puerto Rico
November 6,2007 58
November 10,2007 100
Riverside Cemetery, North Barnstead, NH
December 9,2007 52
January 12,2008 85
Union Cemetery, Sayville, NY
July 11,2008 81
October 17,2008 87
November 11,2008 84
November 19,2008 86
January 6, 2009
February 5,2009 86
Glen Cemetery, Port Jefferson, OH
February 20,2009 84
March 5,2009 77
May 2,2009 83
July 18,2009
Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
July 26,2009 72
August 12,2009 87
August 19,2009 73
October 23,2009 85
November 6,2009 87
December 5,2009 95
Calvary Episcopal Church Yard
December 7,2009 90 Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC
January 30,2010 69
Port of Spain, Trinidad
February 17,2010 91
Stony Creek Cemetery
March 8,2010 85
Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, NY
March 9,2010 83
Sea View Cemetery, NY
March 27,2010 93
March 30,2010 78
June 8,2010 73
Oceanview Cemetery, Staten Island, NY
June 20,2010 71 Fairlawn Cemetery, Prattsville, NY
July 14,2010 94
Jul 24,2010 60
NAME
ENTERED
MINISTRY
EFFEC. YEARS
DATE OF
DEATH
AGE INTERMENT
Henry Bernard
1991 19
July 26,2010 76
Elemit A. Brooks
1952 58
July 29,2010 86 Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, NY
Paul Wilson Bowles
1960 50
September 8,2010 83
Pinelawn Memorial Cemetery
Wallace T. Viets
1943 67
October 6,2010 90
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
Robert A. Traina
1961 49
November 9,2010 89
Bluegrass Memorial Gardens,
Nicholasville, KY
Frank A. Horbert Jr.
1970 40 November 24,2010 89
Julian Norris Hartt
1943 68 November 29,2010 99
Robert Pearsall
1966 19
January 16, 2 011 84
Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, FL
R. Marston Speight
1963 47
January 19,2011 96
Hilltop Covenant Church Cemetery
Cromwell, CT
Merritt B. Queen
1939 72
February 2,2011 95
Albert J. Hillard
1953 58
February 10,2011 87
Aflred Liberatore
1971 40
May 23, 2 011 82
Thomas Irwin Vaughan
1968 43
June 1,2011 69
Andover, CT
Lloyd Alvah Duren
1947 39
July 7,2011 87
Vale Gate Cemetery, Schenectady, NY
Richard S. Parker
1951 46
July 12,2011 81
The Atlantic Ocean
Vernon C. Stutzman
1938 43
August 10,2011 92
Rutherfordton Cemetery, NC
William Henry Hunter, III
1952 41 September 11,2011 77
Paul C. Baresel, Jr.
1966 28
October 182011 80
William A. Studwell
1949 35
January 22,2012 87
Jorge J. Cortizo
1951 40
February 18,2012 85
Carolyn Watson
1984 22
February 21,2012 70
Max Andrew Schwindt
1963 42
March 5,2012 71
Robert C. McMillan
1940 36
March 7,2012 89
William Howard Baudendistel 1949 44
March 31,2012 84
The Sea of Galilee
James R. McGraw
1959 44
May 28,2012 76
2. SPOUSES OF CLERGY MEMBERS
PASTOR’S NAME
DECEASED SPOUSE’S (MAIDEN) NAME
DATE OF
DEATH
AGE
INTERMENT
LET US REMEMBER
Henry C.A. Bernard
Beatrice Bernard
July 5,2002
63
Edward L. Eastman
Jane Gruver Eastman November 21,2002
75
Odella B. Williamson
Clarence Williamson
January 18,2003
70
John E. Swords
Alison Fellows Moore SwordsMarch 9,2003
88
Elizabeth J. Lines
William H. Lines
March 19,2003
68
Cremation
Frederick M. Moore
Lois Moore
July 23,2003
70
Orient Cemetery, Orient, NY
SandraMoore-Levy
Wanamaker
David Wanamaker
September 4,2004
Josue Rosado
Socorro Rosado
September 28,2003
69
Sydney L. Parker
Lottie D. Parker
August 14,2004
84
Paul C. Baresel
Nancy Baresel
May 4,2005
75
Richard Parker
Grace Keefer Parker November 11,2005
83
Richard N. Ryley
Joan Strakey Ryley
November 12,2005
70
George R. Bailey
Mavis McCarthy Bailey
January 8,2006
87
First UMC Columbarian
Wesley Howard Allen
Mary Elizabeth Allen
February 9,2006
Cremated, Chittonville Cemetery,
Plymouth, MA
Lloyd Alvah Duren
Janice Duren
April 26,2006
80
Newton, MA
Richard Mills
Judith A. Mills
September 17,2006
62
James Charles Watson
Marion Doré Watson
March 6,2007
83
David James Harper
Linda Kathrine Harper
April 16,2007
67
William Marcus James
Juanita Odessa James
May 21,2007
94
Trinity Cemetery, NY, NY
Robert E. Kanthak
Lois I. Kanthak
May 29,2007
75
Quaker Hill Cemetery, Pawling, NY
David L. Parker
Merolyn Graham Parker
July 13,2007
71
Interment, Laurel Grove Cemetery, Patterson, NJ
Alfred Cotto-Thoerner
Dorothy Lee Cotto-Thorner July 20,2007
88
PASTOR’S NAME
DATE OF
DEATH
Charles Melano
Donald Goodson
Charles F. Brown
Robert A. Johnson
Albert H. Scholten
Donald O. Rackcliffe
Robert Hall Martin
Howard E. Newton
Frank A. Horbert
Arthur Hewitt
Irving A. Marsland
William Siktberg
Philip A.C. Clarke
John Olofson
Elliott Oakes
Kermit B. Morrison
Robert E. Richmond
Madeline L. McDonald
Robert J. Cave
Elven O. Riggles
Matthew H. Gates
Bradley Ben Burns
Richard David Mellerup
Doris Melano
October 24,2008
88
Gladys “Rhea” Goodson November 2, 2008
Elsie F. Mutch Brown
March 18,2009
83
Mildred M. Johnson
April 8,2009
77
Nila Jean Clark Scholten
April 12,2009
81
Lucille M. Rackcliffe
May 12,2009
78
Patricia King Martin
August 12,2009
Frances Perry Newton
October 5,2009
79
Yolanda Horbert
November 18,2009
86
Beatrice Hewitt
December 21,2009
78
Roberta M. Marsland December 24,2009
84
Laura Mae Siktberg
February 26,2010
84
Bettie Lee Carothers ClarkeMarch 12,2010
78
Sylvia Dietlin
November 23,2010
77
Martha J. Cheeks Oakes
March 2,2011
56
Mary Ellen “Susi” Morrison March 2,2011
82
Rose Mildred Richmond
May 3,2011
77
Russell McDonald
August 18,2011
85
Lois Palmland Cave
August 29,2011
81
Jill Riggles
November 10,2011
57
Alice K. Gates
January 5,2012
91
Maureen Burns
January 20,2012
77
Louise Virginia Brooks
Mellerup
February 11, 2012
AGE
INTERMENT
Orland, Me
Pine Grove Cemetery
Rolling Green Village Cemetery
National Cemetery, Calverton, NY
3. WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS OF CLERGY
CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
PASTOR’S NAME
DATE OF
DEATH
AGE
INTERMENT
Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke
Eunice Ensley Wicke
July 11,2002
91
Harold E. Miller
Ann Mary Meinking MillerOctober 9,2002
71
Arthur W. Goodhand
Jeanette Myers Goodhand October 16,2002
84
Gracelawn Memorial Park
Wilmington, DE
Harrison Ernest Davis
Edna Muelder Davis November 14,2002
89
Donated, Yale Medical School
Lewis H. Davis
Helen Ledgerwood Shelter Island Cemetery,
Davis
December 11,2002
99
Shelter Island, NY
Ernest Reith
Margaret Arthur Reith
January 8,2003
92
New Smyrna Cem., Edgewater, FL
Charles L. Austin
Gertrude Leonard Austin
April 7,2003
85
West Stockbridge, MA
Harold A. Bosley
Margaret Marie
Dahlstrom Bosley
April 8,2003
Bernard Clifton Graves
Augusta C. Lindstrom Graves May 27,2003
92
Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, MA
Walter R. Towle
Patricia Bailey Towle
July 7,2003
78 Beaverdale Meml. Park, Hamden, CT
Frederick B. Jones
Clara Estella McDonald JonesSept. 29,2003
85
Mettowee Cemetry, Granville, NY
Warren Glenn McCarty
Helen Hauger McCarty
Sept. 30,2003
82
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Kingwood, WV
George A. Ackerly
Dorothy L. Eggleston
Ackerly
November 13,2003
Clair F. Yohe
Louise L. Yohe
December 24,2003
Isle LaMotte, VT
James Thoburn Legg
Mary Gray Legg
January 15,2004
91
Douglas W. Cook
Virginia Fitzgerald Cook
May 19,2004
85
William G. Staszeski
Mafalda Staszeski
June 8,2004
97
Bethel UMC Cem., Tottenville, NY
Thomas Falshaw
Wahneta Anderson Falshaw June 24,2004
89
Cremated, Deerfield Beach, FL
James Salter Hood
Dorothy Buchanan Hood
July 15,2004
86
Harold Joseph Moser
Aasta Indahl Moser
August 9,2004
88
Seaside Cemetery, Gloucester, MA
Matthew D. Blair
Vivian Barlie Blair
August 31,2004
88
Cremated, Lancaster, PA
Jack Grenfell
Claire Coffin Grenfell September 7,2004
93
Mount Hope Cemetery, ME
PASTOR’S NAME
DATE OF
DEATH
AGE
INTERMENT
LET US REMEMBER
Donald W. Hamblin
Margaret
Diane
Kramer Hamblin
October 13,2004
64
Swiftwater, PA
Nils Herbert Janson
Alice Quist Janson
October 18,2004
96 Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Frederick I. Smith
Billie Sue Wade Smith November 13,2004
81
Cremation, Woodland Cemetery,
Bellport, NY
Alson Jesse Smith
Florence McLeod SmithNovember 22,2004
93
Cremation, Danbury, CT
Arnold Orville Olson
Mary Louise Olson
October 28,2004
77
Garrett, IN
Joseph D. Maxwell
Alberta Marchena MaxwellFebruary 14,2005 85
George Washington Cemetery,
Paramus, NJ
Ludvig W. Jansen
Gerda Kristina Jansen
March 15,2005 101
George M. Teague
Edna Mitchel Black Teague May 17,2005
94
Ralph John Morgan
Gertrude Foster Morgan August 31,2005
98
Long Island National Cemetery,
Farmingdale, NY
Gordon Brice Fear
Rhoda Noxon Fear Bates September 1,2005
96
Riverview Cemetery, Hancock, NY
Dorland Russett
Margaret Dodd Russett February 3,2006
81
Henry Burnham Kirkland Evelyn Diodamy Frasier February 27,2005
89
Clifford P. Albertson
Mildred I. Albertson
April 7,2006
9
Arthur Edwin Berry
Shirley N. Berry
June 4,2006
83
William H. Stewart
Alice M. Stewart Davidson August 11,2006 100
Richard W. Moore
Hanna Louise
Swords Moore
September 29, 2 006
83
Joseph W. Bell
Carol R. Bell
August 16,2006
92
Harold C. Jones
Dorothy Beadsley Jones November 54,2006
95 Gracelong Cemetery, Wilmington, DE
John G. Chamberlin
Mary Nies Chamberlin January 10,2007
Paul Whiteman Hoon
Alice Emerson
Blodget Hoon
January 13,2007
91
Peacham Cemetery, Peach, VT
George Perry Werner
Grace Ellen Werner
February 22,2007
95 Spring Bay Cemetery, Spring Bay, IL
John Bartle Everts
Dorothy R. Everts
May 22,2007
97
Roy B. Severance
Leota Severance
July 23,2007
Douglas F. Verdin
Margaret Bowdin Verdon
May 15,2008
84
Nicholas Nappi
Dorothea Maria
Darcy Nappi
December 20,2008
80
Louis E. Young
Jean Lappley Young
December 26,2008
91
Louis E. Young
James Jay Benson
Euna Lee Benson
December 28,2008
78
Francis Roderick Dail
Hilda Lee Dail
February 22,2009
88
John Monroe Vayhinger
Ruth Imler Vayhinger
March 18,2009
91
Willard G. Brown
Evelyn Brown
December 4,2009
91
Greenlawn Cemetery, Chester, PA
Richard Waller Nutt
Dorothy S. Nutt
February 3,2010
89
Wesley D. Osborne
Dorothy Osborne
February 24,2010
87
Garfield Thompson
Eleanor Thompson
March 8,2010
84
Paul T. Woodward
Edna Woodward
June 16,2010
89
Harry D. Robinson, Jr.
Sidney B. Robinson
July 23,2010
94
William C. Carroll
Doris Carroll
September 172010
87
Dean Maurice Kelley
Maryon H. Kelley Hall September 192010
86
Duncan MacKenzie
Margaret A. MacKenzie December 5,2010
82
Paul Marion Allen
Thelma Allen
January 3,2011
95
Ivan Nothdurft
Lorla M. Nothdurft
February 22,2011
92 Cape Girardeau County Memorial Park
Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, MO
Joseph G. Bailey, Sr.
Fannie Ellis (Baker) Bailey March 29,2011
88
Wallace Roy Randall
Charlotte (Palmer) Randall April 2,2011
89
Owen E. Mercer, Sr.
Juanita (Edwards) Mercer April 10,2011
90
Julian Norris Hartt
Elinor N. Hartt
April 17,2011
92
John George Butler
June L. Butler
April 24,2011
89
Ronald S. Law
Magdalene Takaro Law
May 13,2011
95
Southlawn Cemetery, Utica, OH
Daniel L. Bennett
Anita Bennett L. Boeck
May 28,2011
William Foster
Esther Swords Foster
July 5,2011
89
PASTOR’S NAME
DATE OF
DEATH
AGE
Edwin C. Minnich
Thursa Mae Minnich
Brackbill
October 19,2011
91
Arthur Renfro Crowell, Sr. Beatrice Crowell
November 29,2011
84
Robert A. Gevert
Miriam P. (Heydt) Gevert March 11,2012
88
John Jones
Virginia E. (Koegel)
Jones
May 22, 2012 89
4.
EFFEC. YEARS
Ruth Frame Harrod
NAME
12
DATE OF DEATH
May 30, 2006
CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
Grandview Cemetery at the
Mauseoleum, Allentown, PA
Riverside Cemetery, Brookline, VT
AGE 71
INTERMENT
CHILDREN OF CLERGY
AGE
DATE OF DEATH
Paul Frederick Abel
56
June 6, 2002
Kevin Martin Hobbs
43
June 29, 2002
Thomas George Tedcastle
57
October 20, 2003
Heidi Chapin Smith
32
May 2, 2004
Terry Grissom
38
August 2, 2005
Drew Hamblin
Lisa Jeanne Hankins
43
January 24, 2007
Wayne Newton
47
February 1, 2007
James Davis Jr.
52
June 24, 2007
Nancy E. Perkins Latham
44
August 1, 2007
Timothy John Rackcliffe
50
August 2, 2008
Sally Marie Nothdurft Galion 62
June 4, 2009
Paul Todd Bradley
44
February 24, 2010
Chay Stinson Ponlork
35
April 15, 2010
Jonathan W. Speight
58
April 24, 2010
Henri J. Fils-Aime
40
June 21, 2010
Katrina Snow
51
June 28, 2010
Joycelyne Gilles Day
16
October 10, 2010
Thomas Ford
26
August 22, 2010
Lynn Margaret Ary
52
October 15, 2011
G. Marilyn Watson
68
October 25, 2011
Michael Merlin Ackerman
39
April 29, 2012
6. MillersvilleMennonite Cemetery
DEACONESSES & DIACONAL MINISTERS
NAME
5. INTERMENT
SPECIAL REMEMBRANCE
NAME
Chichi Keesler
William T. Staubach, Jr.
Derwin Fox
Fletcher C. Wait
Howard Darling
Freda Adams
Samuel Singletary
Daisy Coke-Peart
Joseph Lorde
Shirley Paris
George Backofen
Lillian Hertlin
DATE OF DEATH
April 18, 2002
January 27, 2003
April 22, 2003
April 18, 2006
October 22, 2006
January 29, 2007
January 16, 2007
June 20, 2010
January 30, 2011
November 3, 2011
INTERMENT
Hamptonburgh Cem., Campbell Hall, NY
Williamsburg, VA

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