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OF THE SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Preserving and Celebrating Our United Methodist Heritage in
Central and Northeast Pennsylvania
Susquehanna Conference Pastors. This list [in progress] includes every person known
to have been licensed or ordained in the Susquehanna (1964-70), Central
Pennsylvania (1970-2010), or Susquehanna (2010 onward) Conferences within
United Methodism. Persons who served an appointment in one of those
Conferences but who were originally licensed or ordained in
Evangelical Church Central
Pennsylvania Conference before 1964
United Brethren Church
Pennsylvania Conference before 1964
Methodist Church Central
Pennsylvania Conference before 1970
Methodist Church Wyoming
Conference before 2010
are included in the files for those conferences and are not duplicated in
the Susquehanna Conference list.
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Born: married: Sharon _____
Died: obit:
2016 provisional deacon, recommended by Middlesex
2018 provisional elder
2020 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2016-18 coordinator, Bishops Partners in Mission
2018-23 Sunbury Catawissa Avenue
ACEY, TOWANDA LEE
Born: 8-12-1948 Harrisburg PA married: [single]
Died: 5-14-2019 Atlanta GA obit:
2005 license, recommended by Camp Curtin Memorial Mitchell
2006 provisional elder
2009 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 327
2005-09 Rockville
2009-10 Altoona Faith First
2010-11 Altoona Jaggard First
2011-13 Altoona Jaggard First Lakemont (ending 1/31/2013)
2013 retired
(1/31/2013)
ACOR, ALLEN F.
Born: 1-21-1934 Danville PA married: Shirley M. Dill
Died: 2-24-2015 Bloomsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 393
1978 license, recommended by Millville
Interment: Dutch Hill Cemetery, Columbia County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 259
1971-72 Millville
1974-76 assistant, West Milton
1978-95 Buckhorn-Rupert
1995-01 Beach Haven
2001 retired
2006-10 Hendrickson-Mooresburg (beginning 10/8/2006)
Note: Allen F. Acor taught high school math and science,
most notably at Millville High School 1964-1993, while serving churches under part-time appointment
ADAMS, DENNIS, MICHAEL
Born: married: Carol _____
Died: obit:
1998 ordained deacon, recommended by Woodycrest
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1998-02 Houtzdale First Madera
2002-07 Coudersport Park
2007-23 Grantville
ADAMS, THOMAS EDGAR JR.
Born: 7-6-1943 York PA married: Shirley Jane Clark (10/17/1964)
Died: 2-15-2020 Middleburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 327
1974 ordained deacon, recommended by York Fourth
1977 ordained elder
Interment: Zion UMC Cemetery, Middleburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 328
1972-74 Newport Parish
1974-76 Delta-Bryansville
1976 transfer to West Michigan Conference
1978 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1978-94 Penns Creek
1994 retired
Paxinos UCC
Richfield UCC
2000-20 Middleburg Faith Community
ADAMS, WILLIAM JR.
Born: 3-19-1927 Ephrata PA married: Julie N. Wittes
Died: 4-2-2007 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025,
1948 license, recommended by Ephrata Church of the Nazarene
1952 ordained, Church of the Nazarene
Interment: Witmers Cemetery, Port Trevorton PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 399
1959-68 Fairview Church of the Nazarene, Muncy PA
1968-69 Witmers, Central Pennsylvania Conference UMC
1969 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1969-77 Witmers
1977-89 Sunbury Catawissa Avenue
1989 retired
Note: In 2009, the widowed Mrs. Adams married a Mr. William C. Breon (1932-2019) and became the step-mother of independent pastor Rev. William Breon Jr.
AKER, KENNETH J.
Born: married: Diane _____
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Rouzerville
Interment:
Obit:
2018-22 Ortanna
2022-23 Greencastle First
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Kenneth Aker served as a local pastor.
AKIN, G. COLEMAN
Born: 9-27-1934 Monticello AR married: Karen Herrman
Died: 2-9-2010 obit: [d. 2006]
Interment:
Obit:
2003-04 Harrisburg Stevens Memorial (beginning 10/1/2003, ending 4/30/2002)
Note: G. Coleman Akin served in the Central Pennsylvania
Conference as a retired member of the Little Rock Conference
AKOMEA-AGYIN, DANIEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2023 license, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2025-25 Christ in the Valley Circuit (Franklin County)
ALBRIGHT, TERRY T.
Born: married: Betty _____
Died: obit:
2004 license
Interment:
Obit:
2003-10 Cumberland
2011 discontinued (1/4/2011), page 235
ALEXANDER, ANTHONY CEDRIC
Born: married:
Died: obit:
married2: Lenore Haas
1988 license, recommended by obit2: [d.9/5/2021]
Harrisburg Harris Street
1989 ordained deacon
1992 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-90 Dauphin-Heckton
1990-92 Runville
1992-93 Runville State College Bethune
1993-96 State College Albright-Bethune
1996-01 superintendent, Williamsport District
2001-08 Harrisburg Grace (ending 4/14/2008)
2008 withdrew, page 228
ALLEN, KAREN BUNTING
Born: 8-?-1960 married:
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Millville NJ Second
2008 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1995-01 Sullivan County: Valley, Hemlock, Nordmont St. Pauls
2001-06 Five Mountain: Shickshinny First, Hunlock Creek, Bloomingdale, Muhlenburg
2006-10 Allport Gethsemane
2010-13 associate, State College St. Pauls (ending 11/15/2023)
2013-14 medical leave (beginning 11/15/2013)
2014 withdrew (4/15/2014)
Note: Beginning in 2011 this name is KAREN B. URBANSKI.
ALLSHORE, GARY D.
Born: married: Cynthia _____
Died: obit:
2016 license
Interment:
Obit:
2016-21 Shermans Dale Youngs
2021-23 Milton Bethany
ALLWINE, EDWARD B.
Born: married: Laura _____
Died: obit:
2003 license, recommended by York Pine Grove
Interment:
Obit:
2003-10 Barts Centenary
2010-20 Mount Holly Springs
2020 retired
AMMAN, BARBARA
Born: married: Roy _____
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-00 Bedford Valley
2000-02 Beech Creek Faith Chapel
ALUTIUS, JOSEPH FRANCIS JR
Born: 5-7-1931 Tower City PA married: Marie Ruth Behney
Died: 7-28-2021 Hershey PA obit: [4/14/1931 2/11/2008]
1954 license, recommended by Columbus OH Westgate
1960 ordained elder, Northeastern Conference EUB
Interment: Fort Richardson National Cemetery, Anchorage AK
Obit:
1960-63 Matamoras Hope
1963-70 chaplain, US Army
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-84 chaplain, US Army
1984 retired
2009 no longer listed
Note: Joseph F. Alutius appears to be dropped from the
conference rolls with no explanation. He
had been a resident of Alaska for the past several years.
ANDERSON, FAITH E.
Born: married: Robert D. Anderson
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Three Springs Mt. Carmel
Interment:
Obit:
2013-18 Three Springs Parish (beginning 9/16/2013)
2018-22 Cito
2022-23 Allenport Newton Hamilton
ANDERSON, MARIAN K.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2004 license
Interment:
Obit:
2004-10 McElhattan
Note: Marian K. Anderson retired to Lewisburg PA.
ANDERSON, RICHARD F.
Born: married: Ruth _____
Died: obit:
2010 orders recognized from Evangelical Free Church
2011 license, recommended by Fishburn
Interment:
Obit:
2007-22 Millersburg Hebron County Line
2022 retired
2022-23 Trough Creek Valley Parish
ANDERSON, ROBERT E.
Born: married: Melanie _____
Died: obit:
2016 orders recognized from the Free Methodist Church
Interment:
Obit:
2012-14 Five Star Parish
2014-17 Pine Creek Valley
2017-18 Gatchelville Cross Roads (ending 9/15/2017)
2018-19 on leave (beginning 9/15/2017)
2019-23 Genesee Ulysses
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn (7/1/2023)
ANDERSON, WILLIAM THOMAS
Born: married: Shirley Krupa
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 351
1997 ordained deacon, recommended by Avis
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-98 Montgomery
1998-08 Catawissa First
2008-14 Woolrich Community (ending 1/1/2014)
2014 retired (1/1/2014)
ANDREWS, ARUN S.
Born: married: Miriam _____
Died: obit:
1993 ordained deacon, South India Regional Conference
1995 ordained elder, South India Regional Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1989-97 associate, Bagalore Richmond Town
1997-06 Bangalore Koramangala
2006-07 conference evangelist
2007-14 Ravi Zacjarias Ministries
2014-18 New Cumberland Trinity, Susquehanna Conference
2018 transfer to Susquehanna Conference
2018-23 New Cumberland Trinity
2023 disaffiliated
ARENAS. MIGUEL H.
Born: married: Pamela _____
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Waynesboro Christ
2015 provisional elder
2017 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2001-13 Harrisburg Stevens Emmanuel
2013-15 Oakville
2015-18 York Fourth
2018-20 Honesdale Central
2020-23 Charlton
ARMSTRONG, MATTHEW
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-22 Lake Ariel (7/14/2020 1/17 /2022)
2022 retired (1/18/2022)
2024 discontinued (4/17/2024)
ARNOLD, CANDACE S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
married2: David G. Arnold
1999 license, recommended by Mt. Union obit2: [divorced]
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1999-02 Snyders
2002-07 associate, Mechanicsburg First
2007-12 Duncannon Otterbein
2012-19 Cocolamus
2019-23 St. Thomas
2022-23 Ft. Loudon (beginning 11/28/2022)
ARNOLD, DAVID GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
married2: Candace _____
1995 license, recommended by obit2:
Fayetteville Mount Union married3:
1999 ordained deacon obit3:
Interment:
Obit:
1995-96 Waynesboro Peace
1996-99 Sideling Hill Parish
1999-02 Newport Parish
2002-05 Rockville (ending 3/27/2005)
2005-06 on leave
2006 withdrew, page 243
Note:
David Arnold returned to his pre-ministerial trade as a clockmaker and in 2014
was operatiung a shop on Logan Street in Harrisburg.
ATANASOFF, KAREN
Born: married: Stevan Atanasoff
Died: obit:
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Harrisburg St. Paul
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-87 Half Moon (ending 7/31/1987)
1987-96 Julian-Martha (beginning 8/1/1987)
1996-01 Axemann-Weaver
2001 Rolling Hills: Bethel Hill, Fairmount Springs, McKendree, Oakdale (Jul-Aug)
2001-06 Town Hill (beginning 9/1/2001)
2006-09 Millersburg First
2009-12 Hershey First
2012-15 Williamsport Pine Street
2015-19 Rockville
2019 retired
2021-22 Geyers
(befinning 2/2/2022)
Note:
Stevan Atanasoff is also an ordained member of the Susquehanna Conference.
ATANASOFF, STEVAN E.
Born: married: Karen _____
Died: obit:
1982 ordained deacon, recommended by Harrisburg Stevens Memorial
Interment:
Obit:
1980-84 Manada Hill Harrisburg St. Pauls
1984-93 Half Moon
1992-01 Howard Cooperative Parish
2001 Town Hill (Jul-Sep)
2001-05 on leave (beginning 10/1/2001 and ending 7/1/2005)
2005-06 Bethel Hill Fairmount Springs
2006-13 Williamstown
2010-13 Muir
2013-15 Antes Fort Oriole
2015-20 Geyers (ending 4/30/2020)
2020-21 on leave (5/1/2020 12/32/2020)
2021-22 Geyers (1/2/2021 2/2/2022)
2022-25 on leave (beginning 2/2/2022)
Note: Karen Atanasoff is also an ordained member of the
Susquehanna Conference.
ATCHISON, ALAN D.
Born: married: Catherine Jean Dunbar
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 351
2008 license, recommended by Selinsgrove Christ
Interment:
Obit:
2008-16 Manor
Hill
2016-23 Millersburg Grace
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2007 provisionary deacon, recommended by Curtin
2010 deacon
Interment:
Obit:
2007-17 Lexington KY Centenary, Equipping
Lydia Ministries
2017-23 Wildwood FL Wildwood, Equipping Lydia
Ministries
BAER, ROBIN LYNNE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Shade Gap St. Lukes
2006 provisional elder
2009 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2004-08 Mountainview Parish: Coolidge Hollow, Morris-Blackwell, Mt. Pleasant, Whitneyville
2008-14 Williamsport St. Paul-Calvary
2014-19 McConnellsburg
2019-21 Shavertown
2021-23 Fayetteville Calvary
BAER, TIMOTHY RAY
Born: married: Ann Brown
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by Altoona Greenwood
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-84 Bedford Valley
1984-92 Youngs (Cumberland County)
1992-04 Fishing Creek Salem
2004-12 superintendent, Chambersburg District
2012-18 Shepherdstown
2018 retired
Note: Timothy R. Baer is the son of Guy R. Baer of the
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Baer is the daughter of William M. Brown
of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.
BAILEY, VIRGINIA C.
Born: married: Kevin Bailey
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Elimsport
Interment:
Obit:
2012-16 Montgomery
2016-22 Almedia Ridge Street (ending 12/31/2022)
2022-25 unappointed (beginning 12/31/2022)
2025 discontinued 7/20/2025
Note:
Virginia C. Bailey served as a local pastor.
BAIR, WILLIAM RALPH
Born: 12-25-1954 Huntingdon PA married: Tammy Long
Died: 3-22-2024 Hershey PA obit:
2001 license, recommended by Shade Gap St. Lukes
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 331
2000-03 Valley Parish: Carrick, Concord, Doylesburg, Laurel Grove, Mt. Green, Spring Run
2003-15 Harrisonville (ending 11/22/2015)
2015-20 medical leave (beginning 11/22/2015)
2020 retired
2022-23 Sideling Hill (beginning 1/1/2023)
BAIRD, ALMON DAVID JR.
Born: 4-6-1946 married: Ida Flick (7/28/1979)
Died: 11-3-2024 obit:
1967 license, recommended by Grace Centre Hall
1970 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Unionville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 334
1973-73 Austin
1975-81 Milesburg
1981-86 Bendersville
1986-86 Scotland-Salem
1987-00 Richfield
2000-04 Fayetteville Otterbein
2004-07 Altoona Garden Heights-Lakemont (ending 12/31/2007)
2008 retired (beginning 1/1/2008)
BAKER, BLANCA N.
Born: married: James Baker
Died: obit:
2014 license
Interment:
Obit:
2014-17 York First Spanish (ending 12/31/2016)
2017-19 associate, York Zion (2/15/2017 1/18/2019)
2019-23 Oakville
BAKER, RONALD E.
Born: married: Naomi Hatsfelt
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Dorrenceton
2015 provisional elder
2018 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2010-13 Courtdale and Larksville
2013-21 Bald Eagle Valley Community
2015-21 Milesburg (beginning 7/27/2015)
2021-23 Tyrone Good Shepherd Warriors Mark (ending 4/1/2023)
2023 suspended (4/1/2023 -6/30/2023)
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn (7/1/2023)
BAKER, VIRGINIA E.
Born: married: Gerald Horner Jr
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Snyders
2008 provisional elder
2010 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2005-10 Lock Haven Parish
2010-13 Holy Cross Parish
2013 retired
2015-16 Millerstown (beginning 4/1/2016 )
2017 Millerstown (1/1/2017 3/30/2017)
BAKER, WAYNE D.
Born: married: Joan _____
Died: obit:
1995 license, recommended by Leesburg
Interment:
Obit:
1994-96 Sideling Hill Parish
1996-03 Dillsburg Mt Zion Mt. Airy
2003 retired
BAKER, WILLIAM D.
Born: married: Valerie _____
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Mainesburg
Interment:
Obit:
2016-19
Dagget Jackson Center (ending
1/31/2019)
2019-20 Mansfield First (2/1/2019
12/31/2019)
2020-23 Whitneyville (beginning 1/1/2020)
2020-23 Coolidge
Hollow
2021-23 Middle
Ridge
BAKER-BETZ, VIRGINIA E.
Born: married: Roy Betz
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by New Bloomfield Snyders
Interment:
Obit:
2005-10 Lock Haven Parish
BAKER-McALLISTER, HEATHER M.
Born: married: Scott McAllister
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Sunbury
2007 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-04 McElhattan
2004-08 Duncannon Asbury Roseglen
2008-10 Lemoyne Calvary
2010-15 Gethsemane
2015-19 Wyalusing (ending 12/9/2019)
2019-22 on leave (12/9/19 7/27/2022)
2022 withdrew (7/23/2022) to unite with another denomination
BALDWIN, GREGORY RAY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1991-92 Keeneyville
Note:
Gregory Ray Baldwin served as a local pastor while a student at Mansfield
University. This may be the Gregory R.
Baldwin (10/21/1956 2/3/2023) who was born and died in Sayre PA.
BALL, STEPHANIE R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2021 license, recommended by State College Mt. Nittany
Interment:
Obit:
2021-22 State College Mt. Nittany (8/16/2021
to 4/30/2022)
2022-25 unappointed (beginning 4/30/2022)
2025 discontinued 5/6/2025
BANEY, JOHN C.
Born: married: Debra _____
Died: obit:
1998 license, recommended by Pine Creek
Interment:
Obit:
1999-01 McElhattan
2001-12 Austin
2012-17 Williamsport Third Street Trinity Duboistown
2017-19 Clearfield Trinity
2019-23 Renovo
Area
BARD, DONALD ROBERT
Born: married: Phyllis _____
Died: obit:
1982 license, recommended by Harrisonville Ebenezer
1999 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-93 Harrisonville
1993-05 McConnellsburg
2005 retired
Note: Donald R. Bard is the husband of Phyllis J. Bard.
BARD, PHYLLIS JEAN
Born: married: Donald R. Bard
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by McConnellsburg
Interment:
Obit:
1998-05 Charlestown
2005 retired
Note: Phyllis J. Bard is the wife of Donald R. Bard.
BARDO, DUANE D.
Born: married: Theresa _____
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Farragut
Interment:
Obit:
2004-06 Fillmore
2006-12 Buffalo Run
2012-23 Valley View St. Andrews
BARNER, RICHARD M.
Born: married: Sandra _____
Died: obit:
1976 license, recommended by Lock Haven East Main Street
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-81 Ralston
1981-85 Leesburg
1985-92 Canton
1992-97 Paxtonville
1997-03 Uriah
2003-09 Towanda
2009 retired
2009-12 Montgomery
2012-22 Montoursville Behtel (ending 5/7/2022)
BARNES, MICHAEL F.
Born: married: Danielle _____
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Camp Hill
Interment:
Obit:
2008-10 Wormleysburg St. Pauls (beginning
6/8/2008)
BARRETT, JOSEPH C. JR.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
2015-23 Hillcrest
Note:
Joseph C. Barrett served as a Certified Lay Minister.
BARRICK, EARL FLOHR
Born: 3-22-1936 Carlisle PA married: Thelma V. Piper (5/29/1959)
Died: 10-18-2023 York PA obit:
1976 license, recommended by Big Spring
Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 331
1977-79 Mount Victory
1979-88 Breezewood
1988-98 Roxbury
1998 retired
1998-02
Hillcrest
BASOM, ROBERT LLOYD SR
Born: married: Connie _____
Died: obit:
1979 ordained deacon, recommended by Rockville
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-80 student, Asbury Seminary in Wilmore KY
1980-81 ?
1981-85 Nescopek Albright (beginning 2/1/1985)
1985-87 Doylesburg
1987-90 Saltillo
1990-91 Millerstown
1991-95 Berwick Calvary
1995-96 Fetteroff Mt. Union
1996-04 Caledonia Parish
2004-08 Altoona Wehnwood
2008-09 Altoona Ivyside Parish
2009-14 Lycoming
2014 retired
2018-23 Three Steeples, Upper New York Conference
BAUGHMAN, CHARLES L.
Born: married: Angela _____
Died: obit:
1983 license, recommended by Wesley Tyrone
1985 ordained deacon
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-88 Petersburg
1988-00 Altoona Fifth Avenue
1992-00 Llyswen
2000-08 Roaring Spring
2008 retired
2009-23
Altoona Llyswen
BAUGHMAN, MICHAEL LEROY
Born: married: Carrie _____
Died: obit:
1991 license, recommended by Hilton Head SC St. Andrew-by-the-Sea
1992 ordained deacon, South Carolina Conference
1995 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1993-95 Winterstown, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1995 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1995-00 Winterstown
2000-23 Mercersburg (ending 3/25/2023)
2023 suspended (3/25/2023); withdrew under complaint (4/18/2023)
BAUGHMAN, PAUL W.
Born: married: Karen _____
Died: obit:
2000 license, recommended by Camp Hill
2008 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1999-00 associate, New Cumberland Baughman Memorial (beginning 1/6/2000)
2009-06 Tower City Christ
2006-13 associate, Fishing Creek Salem
2013- York Aldersgate
BAUMGARDNER, CRYSTAL
Born: married: Michael Baumgardner
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Scotland
Interment:
Obit:
2012-13 Guldens Salem (beginning3/1/2013)
2013-15 Bethel
2015-17 Valley Parish [Shrader, Salem, St.
Marks]
2017-21 Pleasant Gap
2021-23 Port Royal Matamoras
Note:
Crystal Baumgardner is married to Michael Baumgardner.
BAUMGARDNER, MICHAEL S. SR.
Born: married: Crystal _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by St. Tomas
Interment:
Obit:
2003-07 Valley Parish (Carrick, Concord,
Doylesburg, Laurel Grove, Mt. Green, Spring Run)
2007-09 Sideling Hill
2009-10 Scotland
2010-13 Conococheague
2013-15 Lake Winola
2015-17 Pine Grove McAlisterville
2017-18 Valley Parish (Shrader, Salem, St
Marks)
2018 retired
2018-19 Fairbrook
(10/15/2018 1/2/2019)
2019-20 Runville
(ending 11/25/2019)
BAUSMAN, JONATHAN LEE
Born: married: Cathy
Died: obit:
1987 ordained deacon, recommended by Wrightsville Locust Street
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-94 Ulster Milan
1994-00 Selinsgrove Wesley
2000-06 Red Lion St. Pauls Chapel (ending
2/28/2006)
2006-10 York Aldersgate (beginning 3/1/2006)
BEACH, LAURA B.
Born: married: Kevin Beach
Died: obit:
2007 deacon, recommended by Curtin
Interment:
Obit:
2007-10 Spiritual Formation Ministries,
Lexington KY
BEASLEY-TOPLIFFE, CAROLA
Born: married: Keith Topliffe
Died: obit:
1989 ordained deacon, recommended by Pittston
1992 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-90 student, Colgate Divinity School in Rochester NY
1990-95 Trough Creek Valley
1995-01 Rockville
2001-14 Marysville Bethany
2014-18 Yeagertown
2018 retired
Note:
Carola Beasley-Topliffe is married to Keith Topliffe of the Wyoming Conference.
BEDDIA, PETER M.
Born: married: Patricia _____
Died: obit:
1986 ordained deacon, recommended by Bellefonte Trinity
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-89 Three Mounts
1989-94 Mill Hall
1994-98 Mt. Gilead
1998-99 Williamsburg
1999-02 Liverpool
2002-06 Oakville
2006-13 Brogue Bethel
2013 retired
2013-18 Roxbury
BEECHERT, ARLENE P.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1989 ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference: recommended by Greenville Norton Hill
1992 ordained elder, West Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1987-92 Greenville Norton Hill
1882-99 Coxsackie
1999-02 Fishkill
2002-04 Curwensville, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2004 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2004-07 Curwensville
2007-12 superintendent, Williamsport District
2012-19 Muncy
2019 retired
BEHRENS, JAMES RAY
Born: married: Katherine _____
Died: obit:
1982 ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle First
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-89 Mount Nebo Mount Olivet
1989 on leave (ending 8/31/1989)
1989-93 Ramey (beginning 9/1/1989)
1993-99 West Decatur
1999-02 Millerstown
2002-12 Williamsport Trinity
2012 on leave (ending 9/1/2012)
2012 retired (9/1/2012)
2014-14 Picture
Rocks Parish (beginning 9/1/2012)
2016-17 Freeburg
Shamokin Dam (beginning 3/1/2016)
2017-23 Loyalsock
(ending 1/31/2023)
Note:
James Behrens is married to Katherine Behrens.
BEHRENS, KATHERINE ANN
Born: married: James R. Behrens
Died: obit:
1994 license, recommended by Ramey
Interment:
Obit:
1994-97 Wallaceton
1997-99 ?
1999-02 Millerstown
2002-18 Wallis Run
2002-14 Loyalsock
2018 retired
2018-23 Wallis
Run
BEISSEL, MICHELLE J.
Born: married: Paul Beissel
Died: obit:
2004 provisional elder, recommended by Harrisburg Calvary
2007 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2004-06 Shade Valley
2006-10 Northumberland Trinity
BEISTLINE, RONALD JAY
Born: married: Mary Margaret _____
Died: obit:
1962 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference EUB (UB): recommended by Steelton Centenary
1968 ordained, Eastern Conference EUB
Interment:
Obit:
1962-64 student, Lebanon Valley College
1964-67 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1965-67 Beaver UCC, Xenia OH (beginning 9/21/1965, ending 9/3/1967)
1967-69 Williamstown West Street and Seybert (beginning 12/1/1967)
1969 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1969-75 Liverpool (ending 12/31/1974)
1975-76 Mt. Holly Springs (beginning 1/1/1975)
1976-84 Morrisdale
1984-87 Richfield
1987-92 Scotland Salem
1992-97 Canton Ecumenical
1997-03 Rebersburg
2003 retired
2007-2014 Mt. Hope
Note: Ronald J. Beistline a nephew of Allen R. Beistline (1928-1985) of the East Pennsylvania Conference.
BELL, CHALMERS R.
Born: 8-13-1918 McKeesport PA married: Eileen F. Gilbert
Died: 1-30-1995 obit: [7/3/1922 10/15/2011]
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Spring Valley Cemetery, Spring Valley PA
Obit:
1967-71 Mount Hope
Note:
Chalmers Bell was a local pastor and served intermittently at Mount Hope
1967-71.
BENDER, DONALD WAYNE
Born: 2-03-1957 Muncy PA married: Lisa Dromgold
Died: obit:
1979 license, recommended by Muncy Valley
1980 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-82 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC
1979-82 Silver Spring (MD) Good Shepherd
1982-87 Mont Alto Otterbein
1987-97 Avis
1997-99 Harrisburg Paxton (ending 11/14/1999)
1999-04 on leave (beginning 11/14/1999)
2004-15 Shopes (ending 10/31/2015)
2015-17 on leave (beginning11/1/2015)
2017 retired
BENDER, RICHARD JAY
Born: married: Kay _____
Died: obit:
1990 license, recommended by McVeytown
1993 ordained deacon
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1990-94 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1990-94
associate, Manchester St. Pauls
1994-06 Reedsville Church Hill (ending
1/31/2005)
2006-18 Lewistown Grace (beginning 2/1/2006)
2018 on leave (ending 8/31/2018)
2018 retired (9/1/2018)
BENNETT, RANDALL G. JR.
Born: married: Aime _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by York Zion
Interment:
Obit:
2005-07 New Freedom
2007-12 Paxtonville
2012-21 Hummels Wharf
2021-23 Harrisburg Calvary
BENSON, NORMAN SKIP EMMETT IV
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2022-25 West Fairview
BENSON, WILLIAM D.
Born: married: Sheila _____
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Newton Hamilton
Interment:
Obit:
2009-13 Alexandria Hope
BEQUEATH, MICHAEL SCOTT
Born: 6-10-1945 Hagerstown MD married: Linda _____
Died: 9-22-2019 Martinsbyrg WV obit:
1985 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference: recommended by Hagerstown Emmanuel
1985 ordained deacon
1989 ordained elder
Interment: Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown MD
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 329
1981-83 student, Shepherd College
1981-83 Morgan WV
1983-86 student, Wesley Theological Seminary
1983-86 Morgan WV
1986-87 Sleepy Creek WV
1987 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1987-92 Altoona Fairview
1992-93 Howard cooperative parish
1993-95 Chambersburg Park Avenue (ending 1/1/1995)
1995 on leave (beginning 1/1/1995)
1995-96 chaplain, Epworth Manor
1996-98 McConellstown
1998-01 Altoona Wehnwood
2001-10 incapacity leave
BERG, BARBARA SUE ARNOLD
Born: 7-23-1957 Harrisburg PA married: Richard Berg
Died: 2-21-2021 Camp Hill PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 349
1986 license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary
1989 ordained deacon
1992 ordained elder
Interment: Cross Roads United Methodist Cemetery, Cross
Roads PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 349
1986-90 Enola Grace
1990-92 Doylesburg
1992-97 Barnitz
1997-05 Hopewell
2005-10 Saxton-Coalmont
Note:
Barbara Berg was married to Richard Berg until 1996.
BERG, RICHARD LYNN
Born: 9-15-1955 married: Barbara Sue Arnold
Died: 2-17-2020 Millersburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 359
1982 ordained elder, American Baptist Church
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 349
1982-88 New Albany, Baptist-UM cooperative parish
1988-92 Bigler, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
1989 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1989-92 Bigler
1992-96 Barnitz Mt. Zion
1996-02 Port Trevorton
2002-09 Mansfield First
2009-20 Millersburg First
Note: Richard Berge was married to Barbara Berg until 1996.
BETLYON, JOHN WILSON
Born: 5-5-1949 York PA married: Alexandra Sandie Ould
Died: 8-17-2022 Plymouth MA obit:
1972 license, recommended by York Christ
? ordained deacon
1978 ordained elder
Interment: Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne MA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 353
student
1977-78 Half Moon
1978-79 ?
1979-80 faculty, North Carolina Wesleyan
1980-81 chaplain, Lycoming College
1981-89 chaplain, Smith College, Northampton MA
1989-92 chaplain, US Army
1992-95 campus minister, Jacksonville [FL] University
1995-02 Centre Hall (beginning 7/15/1995)
2002-12 Hummelstown Trinity
Note:
John W, Betlyon is the author of numerous articles on the ancient Middle East.
BEVACQUA, WARREN A.
Born: married: Jennifer Williams
Died: obit:
? license, North Carolina Conference
1999 ordained deacon
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
student, Duke Divinity School
1999 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1999-00 Harrisburg St. Marks Heckton
2000-04 Harrisburg St. Marks
2004-08 Geyers (ending 11/15/2008)
2008-14 director, Conference Young Peoples Ministries (11/15/2008 1/1/2014)
2014-25 on leave (beginning 1/1/2014)
Note:
Warren Bevacqua is married to Jennifer Williams.
BILLMAN, FRANK H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
? retired
2021-23 Pine
Creek Valley, Susquehanna Conference
2023 (disaffiliated?)
Note:
Frank H. Billman served as a retired member from another Conference.
BISER, DAVID DWAYNE
Born: married: Julie _____
Died: obit:
1996 ordained deacon, recommended by Lemoyne Grace
2001 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-97 Juniata parish
1997-07 associate Harrisburg Colonial Park [renamed Cross Point 1/1/2007]
2007-23 Harrisburg Cross Point
BISH, FORREST SCOTT II
Born: married: Janet _____
Died: obit:
1970 admitted on trial
1970 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1970-73 student, Wesley Theological Seminary
1973-88 West Decatur
1988-12 Yorkana
2012 retired
2019-20 Bethlehem
Springvale
BISHARD, ROBERT V. JR.
Born: married: Carole _____
Died: obit:
2010 license, recommended by Marysville Bethany
Interment:
Obit:
2010-23 Mechanicsburg Youngs
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Robert V. Bishard served as a local pastor.
BITNER, KEITH RICHARD
Born: married: Sharon _____
Died: obit:
1970 admitted on trial, recommended by Newport
1970 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1970-71 Catawissa parish
1971-72 student, Drew University School of
Theology
1972-73 ?
1973-82 Altoona Grace (ending 5/1/1982)
1982-14 chaplain, Lancaster General Hospital
(5/1/1982 8/31/2014)
2014 retired (9/1/2014)
BLACK, MAURICE EUGENE
Born: 4-10-1928 Wenksville married: Mayetta Catherine Bebe Showers (6/18/1949)
Died: 1-28-1992 Gettysburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 333
1984 license, recommended by Wenksville
Interment: Wenksville Cemetery, Wenksville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 469
1979-92 Clines - Idaville
1991-92 Biglerville Centenary (beginning 1/1/1992)
Note:
Maurice Black was a self-employed carpenter, retiring from that vocation in
1991.
BLANCHARD, HARRY RUSSELL JR
Born: married: Dawn _____
Died: obit:
1973 license, recommended by Selinsgrove Christ
1975 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1973-75 Harveyville
1975-77 Burnt Cabins
1977-81 Windsor Bittersville
1981-82 on leave
1982-91 Warrensville (ending 8/19/1991)
1981-91 counseling office (beginning
8/19/1991)
1992-03 Harrisburg St. Pails
2003-14 Centenniel White Pine
2014 retired
2014-23 Centenniel
White Pine
2023 disaffiliated
BLANKLEY, GARY M.
Born: married: Deborah _____
Died: obit:
2010 license, recommended by Everett
Interment:
Obit:
2020-16 Claysburg
2016 retired
2018-19 Alexandria
Hope Williamsburg (beginning 1/1/2019)
BLONTZ, RALPH DAVID
Born: 6-25-1948 Baltimore MD married: Linda M. Scott
Died: 7-20-2014 obit:
license
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 260
2003-08 Valley Parish (spring Run)
Note:
David Blontz served as a certified lay servant.
He was a member of Mercersburg UMC.
BLOSE, TAMMY J.
Born: married: Chad Blose
Died: obit:
2017 license, recommended by Neshanic NJ
2020 provisional elder
2022 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2017-23 Littlestown Barts-Centenary
BOBON, AMELIA MEADE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1999 license, recommended by Chambersburg St. Johns
Interment:
Obit:
1999-02 Chambersburg St. Johns
2002-03 Benton Waller (ending 10/1/2002)
2003 retired
BODEK, MICHAEL T.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Town Hill
Interment:
Obit:
2006-23 Bethel Hill Fairmount Springs
2023 disaffiliated
Note
Michael T. Bodeck served as a local pastor.
BODLE, MICHELLE R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2010 license, recommended by Clearfield West Side
2011 provisional elder
2013 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2010-12 State College Albright Bethune
2012-15 Roseville Mainesburg
2015-22 Philipsburg Grace
2015-16 Sandy
Ridge St. Pauls
2016-22 Morgan
Run
2022-23 Altoona Juniata
BOHANAN, JAMES PATRICK
Born: married: Robin Jayne Grimm
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 330
married2:
obit2:
1992 license, recommended by Manchester St. Paul
1995 ordained deacon
1999 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-96 Mont Alto Wesley (ending 3/1/1996)
1996-02 Airville McKendree (beginning 3/1/1996)
2002-08 York Crosswalk Community
2008-13 York Bethany
2013-23 Mountaintop Christ
BOILEAU, CATHERINE ERSKINE
Born: married: J. Michael Boileau
Died: obit:
1992 ordained deacon, recommended by Lewistown First
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-99 Mt. Nebo Mt. Olivet (ending 1/1/1999)
1999-01 disability leave (beginning 1/1/1999 and ending 10/1/2001)
2001-05 Red Lion Bethany (beginning 10/1/2001 and ending 6/1/2001)
2005 family leave (beginning 6/1/2001)
2005-14 Dover New Creation
2014-20 Chambersburg First
2020-23 superintendent, York District
2023 retired
2024 withdrew 7/31/2024
BOLLINGER, PATRICIA C.
Born: married: H. Daniel Bollinger
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by York Aldersgate
Interment:
Obit:
2006-13 Craley New Bridgeville [renamed
Waters Edge 10/1/2011]
2013-18 McVeytown
2015-18 Wayne
(beginning 1/1/2015)
2018 retired
2018-19 Susquehanna
Valley (ending 7/28/2019)
BOLYARD, HAROLD ARTIS JR.
Born: married: Dianne _____
Died: obit:
1985 license, recommended by Kirkwood DE
1986 ordained deacon
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-03 Keystone Perry, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2003 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2003-05 Keystone Perry
2005-10 Trinity charge, Perry County
2010-19 Walnut Bottom
2019 retired
BONDHUS, JOHN W.
Born: married: Stephanie _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Baltimore Glen Mar
2018 provisional elder
2022 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2015-17 Hetlerville Mifflinville
2017-20 Clarks Green
2020-23 Wellsboro
BONSELL, JAMES CULLEN III
Born: married: Ann Sharer
Died: obit:
1970 license, recommended by Tyrone Christ: Western Pennsylvania Conference (EUB)
1972 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1968-71 Glasgow
1971 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1971-73 Dudley Hopewell (ending 12/31/1973)
1974-77 Harrisburg St. Marks (beginning
1/1/1974)
1977-84 Mifflintown Aldersgate
1984-98 Shepherdstown
1998-01 Penbrook Highspire
2001-06 Millersburg First
2006 retired
2021-22 Felton
2022-23 Good
Shepherd Community
BONSELL, PEGGY JEAN
Born: married: Gary Bonsell
Died: obit:
1993 license, recommended by Bellwood Calvary
2001 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1993-03 Altoona Broad Avenue
1996-97 associate, Altoona Fairview-Faith
1998-03 chaplain, Hollidaysburg Veterans Home
2003-11 Warriors Mark
2011 retired
BOOKHAMER, MARSHA JANE
Born: married: David Larry Bookhamer
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 334
1995 license, recommended by Altoona Greenwood
2001 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1995-01 Altoona Pleasant Valley
1998-01 associate, Altoona Second Avenue
2001-02 Altoona Fairview
2002-05 associate, Altoona Second Avenue
2005-11 Chambersburg St. Johns
2011-13 East Waterford Faith Mexico
Ebenezer
2013 retired
2013-19 East
Waterford Faith (ending 10/31/2019)
BOOKHAMMER, BERNARD JAMES
Born: 6-4-1930 Ganister PA married: Marilyn P. Weaver
Died: 4-18-2016 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 375
1977 license, recommended by Williamsburg
1981 ordained
Interment: Royer Cemetery, Williamsburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 257
1977-78 Shermans Dale
1978-83 Pine Creek
1983-86 Scotland Salem
1986-92 Glen Rocl
1992 retired
1994-95 Orbisonia (beginning 11/1/1994)
1995-05 Altoona Grace
2005-06 Tyrone Christ (beginning 11/1/2005)
2007-10
Spruce Creek
Note:
Bernard Bookhammer served in the Air Force 1948-1968 before entering the
ministry.
BORRELLI, DEBORAH
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Hop Bottom Kingsley
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Deborah Borrelli served as a certified lay minister.
BOWEN, BERT A.
Born: 2-29-1944 Lewistown PA married: Linda J. Johnson (8/5/1966)
Died: 7-20-2020 Camp Hill PA obit:
1999 license, recommended by Yeagertown
2001 associate member
Interment: Mount Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit:
1999-2005 Milroy
2005 discontinued (2005, 238)
2005-10 Milroy
Note:
Bert A. Bowen served as a local pastor and then as a supply pastor. He had been a self-employed electrician
before entering the ministry.
BOWER, J. ROY.
Born: 10-13-1924 married:
Jean Hazel Watts
Died: 6-10-2005 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 440
? license, Assemblies of God
? ordained, Assemblies of God
Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Churchtown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 413
1950-54 student, Central Bible College and Seminary in Springfield MO
1950-52 Galena MO Community Church
1952-54 Springfield MO Central Assembly Chapel for the Deaf
1954-56 Kenilworth NJ
1956-60 Midvale NJ
1960-65 Thiells NY (Methoodist)
1965-66 West Patterson NJ
1966 transfer to Susquehanna Conference EUB
1966-67 Dushore Lopez
1967-76 Cumberland
1976-87 Middlesex
1987 retired
BOWERS, PAUL A.
Born: married: Deborah _____
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Clearfield West Side
Interment:
Obit:
2011-16 Mt. Zion OShanter (beginning
8/14/2011)
2016-22 unappointed
2022-23 Clearfield Mt. Joy
BOWERS, PHYLLIS M.
Born: married: Richard Lee Bowers
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Mt. Pisgah Trinity
2004 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1986-06 staff, Stewardship Foundation
2006-18 executive director, Stewardship Foundation
2018 retired
Note:
Phyllis M. Bowers is married to Richard L. Bowers
BOWERS, RICHARD LEE
Born: married: Phyllis _____
Died: obit:
1986 license, recommended by Aldersgate York
1989 ordained deacon
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-89 Violet Hill
1989-12 Mt. Pisgah Trinity
2012 retired
2012-23 Emigsville Otterbein
Note:
Richard L. Bowers is married to Phyllis M. Bowers.
BOYER, GAIL PATRICIA
Born: married: Steven Boyer
Died: obit:
1992 license, recommended by Hegins St. Johns
2006 provisional elder
2009 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-95 associate, Enders Powells Valley
1995-06 associate, Halifax Faith
2006-17 Union Deposit
2017 retired
2018-23 Halifax
Faith
BOYER, WILLIAM CHARLES
Born: 7-12-1930 Carbon County PA married: Betty Jane _____
Died: 10-7-2016 obit:
1959 license, recommended by Millersville Grace
1962 ordained elder
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 258
1959-62 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1960-62 Casstown OH Lost Creek UCC
1962-66 Philadelphia Belfield Avenue
1966-70 Grantville
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference by boundary change
1970-75 Dauphin Heckton
1975-77 on leave
1977 located
BRADLEY, ANDREW T. SR
Born: 1-4-1948 married: Annice B. _____
Died: 6-5-2014 Harrisburg obit:
1971 ordained, First Born Church of the Living God
1998 license
1998 ordained deacon
2003 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 261
Maysville NC Faith Temple
1981 transfer to Philadelphia Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Oberlin St. Paul
Columbia Mt. Zion
Harrisburg Bethel
1998 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
1998-03 Gatchelville Crossroads
2003-07 Tyrone Good Shepherd
2007-12 Harrisburg Camp Curtin Memorial
Mitchell
2012-13 Shippensburg Christ
2013 retired
BRADSHAW, RICHARD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Scranton Asbury (beginning 5/1/2019)
2021-23 Forty Fort
BRADY, JOSEPH FRANCIS
Born: married: Lonita _____
Died: obit:
1976 license, recommended by York Haven
1979 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-78 student, Messiah College
1978-84 Wiconisco
1982-01 Millersburg First
2001-11 Berwick Bethany
2011 retired
BRAKE, ELIZABETH E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Mercersburg First
Interment:
Obit:
2018-25 Roxbury
2025 discontinued 6/30/2025
BRANDT, SANDRA C.
Born: married: Donald Brandt
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Lawrenceville Calvary
Interment:
Obit:
2004-09 Ulster
2009-12 Ulster Trinity charge
2012 retired
BRAUCHER, KEITH OWEN
Born: married: Marsha _____
Died: obit:
1983 ordained deacon, recommended by Enola Mt. Zion
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1984-86 associate, Chambersburg St. Pauls
1986-94 York Bethlehem
1994-96 Pastoral Counseling and Consulting Center
of Greater Washington
1996-04 executive director, Pastoral
Counseling and Care Ministries
The following interim
appointments were served while holding the above positions.
1995-96 York
Bethlehem (beginning 2/1/1996)
1999-00 Delta
Bryansville (beginning 2/1/2000)
2000-01 New
Freedom (beginning 11/1/2000)
2001-02 Dillsburg
Calvary
2002-03 Harrisburg
Harris Street
2003-04 Mechanicsburg
Wesley
2004-17 pastor of community life, Hemp[field,
East Pennsylvania Conference
2017-23 Stewartstown
BRENNEMAN, DAVID A.
Born: married: Abby _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Red Lion hCapel
Interment:
Obit:
2014-18 Glen Rock
2018-21 Gatchelville Crossroads
2021-23 Manchester
2023 disaffiliated
BRENNEMAN, ROBERT P.
Born: c1930 Harrisburg PA married: Margaret Lucille Jacoby [c1952]
Died: 8-24-2017 Topton PA obit: [c193c 6/19/2015]
? admitted on
trial, Philadelphia Conference
1963 ordained elder
Interment: [cremated?]
Obit:
1959-61 Bridesburg
1961-65 Quakertown
1965-66 Reading St. Peters
1966-69 chaplain, US Army
1969-70 Lykens
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-74 chaplain, US Army
1974-76 director, Greater Delaware Valley Regional Medical Program
1976-78 [not in the ministry]
1978 withdrew
Note: Robert P. Brenneman reportedly worked as a shipper/receiver for C&D Power Systems in East Greenville and Conshohocken PA for 20 years before retiring in 1996.
BREWSTER, N. JEFFERSON
Born: married: Linda
Died: obit:
1975 ordained deacon, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Darby Mt. Zion
1977 ordained elder, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1987 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1987-00 Knoxville
2000-08 Shermans Dale Youngs
2008 retired
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(9/5/2023)
BRINKER, DAVID LUKE
Born: married: Christine B. Close
Died: obit:
1976 license, recommended by Fishing Creek Salem
1979 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-80 Keystone Perry
1980-82 associate, Harrisburg Calvary
1982-88 Susquehanna Valley
1988-99 York Springs
1999-02 Everett
2002-09 Stewartstown
2009-12 Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar (ending
4/24/2012)
2012-21 chaplain, Normandie Ridge Senior
Living Community (beginning 4/25/12)
2021 retired
Note:
David L. Brinker is the son of Luke J. Brinker (1925-2015) of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church. Mrs. Brinker is the daughter of Robert L.
Close of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church and is a
sister to Cecily A. Close Eisley.
BRINKS, JAMES M.
Born: married: Bonnie _____
Died: obit:
1961 ordained deacon
1963 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Rocky Mountain Conference
1988 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1989-97 director of development. Brethren Home
1997 retired
BROOKS, HARRY RAYMOND
Born: married: Ethel Haines
Died: obit:
1969 license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity
1971 ordained, New England District of the Christian Missionary and Alliance Church
Interment:
Obit:
1969-72 Haverhill MA
1972 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
1972-77 Ulster
1977-85 Uriah
1985-96 Mechanicsburg Mt. Olivet
1996-00 Valley View St. Andrews
2000-11 Harrisburg 29th Street
2011 retired
BROPHY, KEVIN ELWOOD
Born: married: Irene _____
Died: obit:
1998 ordained deacon, recommended by Fisherdale
2003 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1998-06 McClure
2006-08 Roseville Mainesburg
2008-19 Salladasburg
2019-23 Cocolamus
BROSIOUS, AUDREY M.
Born: married: Larry Brosious
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Mifflinville
2016 provisional elder
2018 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2011-20 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd Buckhorn
2020-23 Selinsgrove Wesley
BROSIUS, TERENCE J.
Born: married: Caren _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Chambersburg First
2011 provisional elder
2015 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2005-09 Charlestown
2009-14 Fowlersville Lime Ridge
2014-20 Port Royal Matamoras
2020-22 Richfield
2022-25 South Mountain Charge [Wenksville
Bendersville] (ending 7/25/2025)
2023-25
Mount Calvary & Mount Tabor
2025 withdrew 7/25/2025
BROSSMAN, BRUCE MICHAEL
Born: married: Pamela _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Williamsport St. Johns
1989 ordained deacon
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-91 student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY
1991-92 associate, Linglestown
1992-07 Duncannon Otterbein
2007-14 Steelton Centenary
2014-21 York Calvary
2021-23 Hanover First
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
BROUSE, JAMES GRANT
Born: married: Elta _____
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Shade Gap
Interment:
Obit:
1995-02 Oakville
2002-23 Lemasters
2014-23 Charlestown
2004 discontinued (6/30/2024)
BROWER, MARK STEVEN
Born: married: Susan _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by McVeytown Wesley Chapel
1996 ordained deacon
2000 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-00 Columbia Crossroads East Troy
West Burlington
2000-10 Lewistown Granville
2000-09 Lewistown
Lake Park
2010-23 Clearfield Parish
BROWN, BRADLEY ATTICKS
Born: 10-30-1951 Harrisburg PA married: June _____ (8/14/1974)
Died: 9-15-2020 obit:
1974 license, recommended by Harrisburg Colonial Park
1974 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment: Susquehanna Memorial Gardens, York County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 350
1974-76 student, Princeton Theological Seminary
1976-77 Doylesburg
1977-83 associate, York Asbury
1983-90 Walnut Bottom
1990-93 Mechanicsburg Wesley
1993-10 York Zion
BROWN, CURT L.
Born: married: Carol _____
Died: obit:
2018 license
Interment:
Obit:
2018-22 associate, Hummels Wharf (beginning5/13/2008, ending 5/31/2022)
2022 unappointed (beginning 6/1/2022)
discontinued (8/4/2022)
Note: Curt L. Brown served as a local pastor.
BROWN, PATRICIA D.
Born: married: Dale Bauman
Died: obit:
1978 license, recommended by Sunbury Otterbein
1982 ordained deacon
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 Castanea Farrandsville
1980-83 student, Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary
1983-84 chaplain. Geisinger Medical Center
1984-87 Muncy
1987-89 chaplain, Lehigh Valley Hospital Center
1989-93 executive secretary, General Board of Global Ministries, Mission Evangelism
1993-96 associate council director
1996-99 driector of Spiritual Formation, Florida Conference
1999 transfer to Florida Conference
1999-07 director of Spiritual Formation
2007 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
2007-08 faculty, Mars Hill Graduate School, WA
2008-23 exec director, Spiritworks Center for Formation & Leadership (beginning 9/1/2008)
BROWN, ROBERT A. SR
Born: married: Romaine
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Harrisburg Harris Street
2001 ordained deacon
2004 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1998-01 Harrisburg Riverside
2001-05 Newton Hamilton
2005-08 Middletown Wesley
2008 retired
BRUBAKER, KEVIN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-93 York Christ Hope Community
Note: Kevin Brubaker served as a local pastor while in the
candidacy process.
BRUBAKER, TANYA L.H.
Born: married: Richard Brubaker
Died: obit:
2000 license, recommended by Yorkana Christ
Interment:
Obit:
2000-14 Freysville (beginning 4/3/2010)
2014-15 York St. Pauls
2015-16 associate, York Calvary
2016-21 York Grace
2021-23 York Calvary
2021-22 York Grace [merged into York Valvary]
BRUMBACH, MARK DONALD
Born: married: Emily Fay _____
Died: obit:
1990 ordained deacon, recommended by Milton St. Andrews
1992 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1990-99 Trout Run (ending 8/17/1999)
1999-05 Hellam Faith (beginning 8/17/1999)
2005-23 South Williamsport
2005-07 South Williamsport former Methodist
2009-10 chaplain, Army National Guard (8/31/2009 5/1/2020)
BUCKE, ANDREW A.
Born: married: Ruth _____
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Liverpool
Interment:
Obit:
2011-19 Dresslers Ridge
2019 retired
BUIKEMA, JAMES HENRY
Born: 10-2-1906 St. Louis MO married: Lois Alvina Reichardt
Died: 12-2-1994 obit: Iowa Conference 1983, 144
married2: Florence Groce
obit 2: Towa Conference 2004, 101
? ordained deacon, Western New York Conference
? ordained elder
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA
Obit: Iowa Conference 1995, 149
transfer to Northern Illinois Conference
transfer to Iowa Conference
1972 retired
Port Trevorton, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
Note:
James Buikema served Port Trevorton for several months as a retired member of
the Iowa Conference.
BUMBARGER, GARY WAYNE
Born: 7-2-1956 Philipsburg PA married: Michelle E. True
Died: 2-28-2015 Morrisdale PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 394
married2: Jean M. Dole
license, recommended by Philipsburg Grace obit2:
1984 ordained deacon
1987 ordained elder
Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery, Philipsburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 262
1983-85 Three Mounts [Adams County]
1985-89 Pine Creek Valley [Potter County]
1989-93 Tower City Christ
1993-98 Gatchelville Crossroads
1998-01 Bellwood Calvary Pinecroft (ending 10/1/2001)
2001-14 incapacity leave (beginning 10/1/2001)
2003-06 Summit Hill (ending 5/31/2006)
adjunct faculty, Mt.
Alloyisious College in Cressona PA
Note:
Gary W. Bumbarger is the stepfather of Pastor Jason Schreck, affiliation
unknown.
BUONOCORE, SALVATORE EDWARD
Born: married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Linwood, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
1988 ordained deacon
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1990 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1990-12 Turkey Valley
2008-11 Dresslers Ridge
2012-23 Dover Bethany
2023 disaffiliated
BUPP, JUDY M.
Born: married: Larry Bupp
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Red Lion Pleasant Grove
Interment:
Obit:
2004-05 Violet Hill
2005-06 Violet Hill and York Grace St. Pauls
2006-11 York Grace St. Pauls
2011-16 associate, York Fourth
2016-18 Adamsville Yoe
2018 retired
2018-23 York Haven Pleasant Grove
BURD-HARRIS, ANDREW M.
Born: married: Megan _____
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Danville Trinity
2009 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2007-10 Mechanicsburg Youngs
2010-15 Hetlerville Mifflinville
2015-18 Calvary Cheat Lake, West Virginia
Conference
2018-20 Locust Run Thompsontown
2020-22 Middletown Evangelical (ending
7/5/2022)
2022-23 on leave (beginning 7/5/2022)
Note:
Andrew Burd-Harris is married to Megan Burd-Harris.
BURD-HARRIS, MEGAN C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2014 provisional deacon, recommended by Mechanicsburg Youngs
2016 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
2014 chaplain, Geisinger Hospital; Hetlerville Mifflinville (ending 8/12/2014)
2014-22 chaplain, WVU Childrens Hospital; Avery, West Virginia Conf (beginning 8/12/2014)
2022-23 on leave (beginning 7/5/2022 and ending 2/10/2023)
2023- Access Center Clinician (beginning 2/10/2023)
Note:
Megan Burd-Harris is married to Andrew Burd-Harris.
BURDICK, F. ALAN
Born: married: Lottie _____
Died: obit:
2006 license
Interment:
Obit:
2006-12 Dudley
2012 retired
2013-14 Canoe
Creek Union (ending 8/25/2013)
BURKETT, THOMAS DAVID
Born: 6-10-1946 Wellsville NY married: Maxine Beth George
Died: 3-10-2006 Alexandria VA obit: [10/13/1946 5/3/2003]
1972 license :
Interment: Presho Cemetery, Lindley NY
Obit:
1972-73 Felton
1973-74 not appointed
1974 withdrew
Note: Thomas D. Burkett graduated from Mansfield University in 1972 and attended Lancaster Theological Seminary 1972-73. He later taught high school English and history in Fairfax VA.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
2014-2023 Unityville [Franklin Fairview Pine
Wesley]
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Kathy F. Burkhart served as a certified lay minister.
CALDWELL, DANN S.
Born: married: Beth
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Harrisburg Derry Street
1988 ordained deacon
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-93 associate, Carlisle Allison
1993-97 Southern New Jersey Conference
1997-99 New Jersey Coordinator for
Self-Advocacy
1999-13 associate, Charlton
2013-23 chaplain, Homeland Hospice
2015-19 Shopes
(11/22/2015 12/31/2019)
CALE, LORI A.
Born: married: Douglas Cale
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
2007 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2004-07 associate, New Bloomfield
2007-10 associate, York Aldersgate
CALKINS, GLENN CHARLES
Born: married: Lois _____
Died: obit:
1965 license, recommended by Milford Mill MD, Susquehanna Conference EUB
1968 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1965-68 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1965-66
youth ambassador, General Boards of CE and Evangelism
1966-68, associate, Dayton OH Beadrshear
1968-71 associate, York Otterbein
1971-74 Mont Alto yoked
1974-75 sabbatical leave
1975-00 chaplain, Methodist Hospital of
Indiana in Indianapolis IN
2000-04 Methodist Healthcare System, San
Antonia TX
2004-10 coordinator of CPE, Adventist
Healthcare, MD
2010 retired
CALOVI, DAVID A. JR.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2016 license
Interment:
Obit:
2016-19 Fort Loudon Edenville
2019-23 Everett
2022-23 Breezewood (beginning 3/1/2023)
CAMP, GUY WILLIAM ARTHUR III
Born: married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
1964 license, recommended by Cheverly MD, Susquehanna Conference EUB
1968 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1964-68 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1964-66
Arcanum OH West Grove United
Church of Christ
1966-67
student pastor, Baltimore MD
Dorguth Memorial EUB
1967-68
youth director, Xenia OH
Beavercreek Church of the Brethren
1968-73 State Line
1973-80 Blossburg
1980-85 Hollidaysburg First
1985-91 Fayetteville Calvary
1991-96 Troy
1996-03 Marion First
2003 retired
CAMPAGNA, RUTH ANN (LANDEFELD)
Born: 2-16-1937 Pittsburgh PA married: Charles S. Campagna
Died: 9-24-2022 VA obit: [1/22/1926 2/9/2008]
license, recommended by Ligonier Hermitage
1985 ordained deacon
1988 ordained elder
Interment: Somerset County Memorial Park, Somerset PA
Obit: [none?]
Northern New Jersey
Conference
1994 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1994-98 associate, State College St. Pauls
1998-02 McConnellsburg
2002 retired
CANANKAMP, JEFFERY ALAN
Born: married: Denise _____
Died: obit:
? license, Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
1990 ordained deacon, recommended by State Line
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-93 associate, Coudersport Larger Parish
1993-98 Pine Creek Valley
1998-03 Newburg New Hope
2003-10 Mount Union First
2010-16 Uriah
2016-25 Mt. Gilead Trinity, East Ohio
Conference
CARABALLO-LOPEZ, WILLIAM JR
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1990 license, recommended by Harrisburg Emmanuel Spanish
1996 ordained deacon
1999 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1990-02 Harrisburg Iglesia Emmanuel
2002-06 Baltimore-Washington Conference
(ending 3/15/2006)
2006-17 Highspire (beginning 3/15/2006)
2012-17 Royalton
Emmanuel
2017 East Salem Otterbein (ending
7/14/2017)
2017-23 on leave (beginning 7/14/2017)
CARLSON, ELDON LUKE
Born: 1926 Ogden UT married: Lois Louise Rouse
Died: 10-8-2022 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 265
1943 license, recommended by Oskaloosa IA, South Iowa Conference
1951 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
1951 ordained deacon
1953 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 355
1943-45 Barnes City Methodist, Iowa
1945-47 West End Presbyterian, Iowa
1947-50 Mt. Carmel Presbyterian, Indiana
1950 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1950-52 Trevose
1952-54 Frackville
1954-60 Trevose
1960-64 Philadelphia St. Philips
1964-70 Millersburg First
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-71 Millersburg First
1971-87 Mechanicsburg Wesley
1987-90 Berwick Bethany
1990-96 Greencastle First
1996 retired
CARRIGAN, GUY D. JR
Born: married: Sandra Lee _____
Died: obit:
1956 license, recommended by Boehms, Philadelphia Conference
1960 ordained deacon
1963 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1956-59 student, Asbury College
1959-62 student, Drew Theological Seminary
1960-62 Jim Thorpe Grace St. Paul (ending 11/1962)
1962-68 Hulmeville Neshamony (beginning 11/1962)
1968-76 Warrington St. Pauls
1976-84 Paradise St. Johns (ending 10/1984)
1984-89 on leave (beginning 10/1984)
1989-91 Bedford, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1991 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1991-01 Bedford
2001 retired
2002-10
York Grace St. Pauls
2010-14 Windsor
Grace (ending 12/31/2014)
CARTER, CHADRICK E.
Born: married: Brenda _____
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Mount Holly Springs
Interment:
Obit:
2009-10 Catawissa Parish
CARTER, DAVID P.
Born: married: Bethany _____
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Bellefonte Faith
Interment:
Obit:
2018-23 associate, Bellefonte Faith
(beginning 5/18/2018)
CARTWRIGHT, JEFFREY NEAL
Born: married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
1977 license, recommended by York Messiah
1979 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-78 student, Mansfield State College
1977-78
assistant, Whitneyville
1978-80 student, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary
1979-80
assistant, Stewartstown
1980-86 Reedsville
1986-92 associate, Camp Hill
1992-04 Union Deposit
2004-07 on leave
2007 retired
2009-19 Harrisburg
First (8/1/2009 10/30/2019)
2020-23 Blue
Mountain (beginning 1/1/2020)
CARTWRIGHT, KIMBERLY A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2016 license, recommended by Howard
Interment:
Obit:
2015-16 Clintondale Mackeyville (beginning
5/1/2015)
2016-21 Brogue Bethel
2021-22 McVeytown Wayne
2022-23 River Valley
CARTWRIGHT, RICHARD BRYAN
Born: married: JoAnne
Died: obit:
License, recommended by Bellefonte Faith
1977 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-79 syudent, Duke Divinity School
1979-81 Axeman Weaver
1981-86 Dover Otterbein
1986-91 Fairmount
1991-99 Fayetteville Calvary
1999-04 Clearfield West Side
2004-09 Jersey Shore Trinity
2008 family leave (8/1/2008 10/31/2008)
2009-10 Huntingdon 12th Street
CESSNA, SAMUEL G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1991-92 Warfordsburg
Note:
Samuel Cessna served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
CHERRY, NATALYA A.
Born: married: Paul Cherry
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Trinity
2002 provisional elder
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-05 Knoxville
2005-06 associate, Mechanicsburg Aldersgate
2006-13 Tower City Christ
2013-18 student
2018-23 faculty, Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth TX
CHIARAMONTE, VINCENT J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2016 license
Interment:
Obit:
2016-23 Susquehanna North Jackson
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Vincent J. Chiaramonte served as a local pastor.
CHRISTINE, TODD A.
Born: married: Autumn _____
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Grazierville
2020 provisional elder
2022 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2012-20 Trough Creek Valley Parish
2020-23 Hanover Grace
2023 disaffiliated
CHRISTMANN, JUDY C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Hanover First
Interment:
Obit:
2011-16 Hanover First (ending 12/31/2015)
2016 retired (1/1/2016)
CHRISTOPHER, DANIEL K.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-23 Clintondale Mackeyville
2020-23 Loganton
Albright Greenburr Trinity
CIAMPA, DONALD JACKSON
Born: 11-30-1933 Rockwood PA married: Joanne Harner
Died: 11-15-2015 obit:
1953 license, recommended by Beaverdale EUB, Western Pennsylvania Conference
1958 ordained elder
Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 259
1953-55 student, Otterbein College
1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1955-58 youth minister, Fairborn OH
1958-64 Altoona Grace Pinecroft
1964-69 Altoona Grace Otterbein
1969-74 Altoona Otterbein* (ending 10/31/1974)
1974-87 Lewistown First (beginning 11/1/1974)
1987-04 Mechanicsburg First
2004 retired
2005-06 Allison
Carlisle (beginning 2/1/2005)
2007-08 New
Kingstown Trinity (beginning 2/1/2008)
2011-12 Shepherdstown
2013-14 Newport
Hope Eternal (beginning 1/1/2014)
*Altoona
Grace absorbed the members of Otterbein and changed its name to Otterbein.
Note: Donald J. Ciampa is the son of Donald N. Ciampa of the
United Brethren pastor files and the brother of J. Paul Ciampa, John E. Ciampa,
B. Frank Ciampa, and Ralph C. Ciampa all graduates of United Theological
Seminary and members of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.
CIANCIOSI, PAMELA S.
Born: 3-24-1959 Johnson City NY married: Paul W. Kauffman III
Died: 2-6-2008 York PA obit: [1957 9/28/2015]
married2: Blaine Kinter
license, recommended by Hbg 29th Street obit2: [2/17/1951 5/8/2009]
1986 ordained deacon married3: Thomas Sanagorski
1988 ordained elder obit3:
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 401
1986-93 associate, Yorkshire
1993-02 Dover New Creation Community
2002-06 associate, Chambersburg St. Paul
2006-07 Red Lion Zion
2007-08 incapacity leave
Note:
Paul W. Kauffman III and Thomas Sanagorski are members of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference UMC.
CLAYBAUGH, JACQUELINE A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2023- Canoe Creek Union and Petersburg Crever Memorial
Note:
Jacqueline A. Claybaugh served as a certified lay servant.
CLAYBOURN, CHARLES V.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2008 license
Interment:
Obit:
2008-10 Harrisburg St. Marks
CLIPPINGER, GEORGE W.
Born: married: Sarah _____
Died: obit:
1996 license, recommended by Harrisonville Salem
Interment:
Obit:
1995-07 associate, Sideling Hill Parish (beginning 2/19/1995)
2007-10 Breezewood (ending 12/1/2010)
2010-16 on leave (beginning 12/1/2010)
2016 retired
CLITES, BRIAN A.
Born: married: Hannah _____
Died: obit:
2018 license
Interment:
Obit:
2018-19 associate, Bedford (1/1/2018 11/14/2019)
2019-20 unappointed (beginning 11/15/2019)
2020-22 Greater Broad Top New Hope Parish
2022-23 Altoona Bethel
2024 discontinued (1/17/2024)
CLOER, JAMES EUGENE
Born: 2-9-1936 Statesville NC married: Virginia Lee Haire
Died: 11-20-2018 Lyles TN obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 280
1975 license
1977 probationary deacon, Western North Carolina Conference
1997 associate member, Central Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mount Zion Wesleyan Church Cemetery, Thomasville
NC
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 336
Matthews Chapel and Price
Denton charge
Farmington charge
1993 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1993-96 Newton Hamilton
1996-98 Renovo Westport
1998 retired
Note: James E. Cloer served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.
CLONINGER, NELLIE CLAIRE GRAY
Born: 3-17-1953 Somerset PA married: John Scott Cloninger
Died: obit:
1980 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1980-82 appointed to school
1982 transfer to South Carolina
Conference 6/1/1982
COE, ROGER BRUCE
Born: 3-31-1953 Lancaster PA married: Christine Ness
Died: 11-28-1978 Juniata County PA obit: [1954 - ]
1976 ordained deacon, recommended by Wellsville
Interment: Salem Union Cemetery, Dover PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 331
1975-78 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1976-78 associate, Verona (West Ohio Conference)
1978 Cocolamus
Note:
Roger Coe was tragically killed in a hunting accident.
COFFMAN, NORMAN SWORDS
Born: married: Edna _____
Died: obit:
1963 license, recommended by Harrisburg Trinity
1970 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1970-73 student
1973-86 executive director, Decatur GA Cooperative Ministry
1986-90 Portland OR Ecumenical Parish
1990-91 on leave
1991-93 Balls Mills Rose Valley
1993-94 Penbrook Trinity
1994-00 Williamsport High Street - Wesley
2000-03 Mechanicsburg Grace
2003 retired
Note:
Norman S. Coffman is the son of John S. Coffman of the Central Pennsylvania
[ME] Conference.
COLE, DANIEL P.
Born: 1929 married: Catherine A. Crowding
Died: 21-10-2017 Evanston IL obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 336
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 267
faculty, Lake Forest College in Illinois
retired, honorable location
COLE, LARRY D.
Born: 5-22-1941 Omaha NE married: Susan L. Halverstadt
Died: 8-20-2017 Montoursville PA obit:
married2: Gloria Patricia Fleming (10/25/2003)
license, recommended by obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 263
Lincoln NE St. James married3: Sharon A. Gensib
1981 ordained deacon, Nebraska Conference obit3:
1986 ordained elder, Nebraska Conference
Interment: Rest Haven Memorial Park, Lock Haven PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 267
1992-94 Williamsport Newberry, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1994 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1994-95 Williamsport Newberry
1995-99 Pennsdale/Huntersville
1999-04 Williamsport Calvary
2004 retired
2005-10 Flemington
(beginning 8/1/2005)
Note:
Larry D. Cole was the husband of Susan L. Halverstadt. This surname is
sometimes given as HALVERSTADT-COLE.
COLEMAN, JOEL
Born: married: Niki _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Paxton
2006 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2005-09 Knoxville
2009-17 Pine Grove (ending 3/31/2017)
2017-21 director of camping ministry, Fontanelle NE (4/1/2017 9/15/2021)
2021-23 director of Occohannock Retreat Center, Belle Haven VA
COLEMAN, LARRY LEE
Born: married: Judith Ann DeStefano
Died: obit: [5/21/1942 4/11/2005]
1965 license, recommended by Ainsworth NE First
1966 ordained deacon, Nebraska Conference
1971 ordained elder, Nebraska Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1966-67 student
1966-67 student assistant, Dumont NJ Calvary
1967-70 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC
1967-68 Jessup-Guilford, Baltimore Conference
1968 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1968-70 Jessup-Guilford
1970-71 director, Clarksville MD Hearth House Inc.
1971-72 Hustontown, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1972 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1972-76 Hustontown
1976-80 Picture Rocks
1980-81 sabbatical leave
1981-85 Sunbury Albright
1985-87 chaplain, Allentown and Danville State Hospitals (10/1/1985 9/13/1987)
1987-08 chaplain, Dauphin County Prison (9/14/1987 2/7/2008)
2008 retired (2/8/2008)
Note: Mrs. Coleman was a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference [ME]. Her service record is given the that list.
COMPTON, DOUGLAS MARK
Born: married: Dana _____
Died: obit:
1981 ordained deacon, recommended by Leesburg
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-86 Quincy
1986-93 Altoona Second Avenue
1993-97 Fairbrook
1997-06 Mifflintown
2006-09 Millersburg Grace (ending (1/25/2009)
2009-10 chaplain, Army National Guard
(1/26/2009 2/1/2010)
2010-16 Millersburg Grace (beginning
2/1/2010)
2016 retired
CONDON, JACKIE L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2005 license, Western Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Erie Lawrence Park
Interment:
Obit:
2005-09 State Line
2009-12 Spartansburg Parade Street
2012 transfer to Susquehanna Conference
2012-16 Rome North Orwell
2016-19 Great Bend Community Church
2019-20 unappointed
2020-22 Marysville Bethany
2022-23 Balls Mills
CONKLIN, RICHARD L.
Born: married: Jacqeline _____
Died: obit:
2017 license, recommended by Lock Haven Faith
Interment:
Obit:
2017-23 Lamar Mill Hall
2018-23 Flemington
CONRAD, ERMA ELEANOR MAE
Born: 4-15-1924 Philipsburg PA married: _____ Shaw
Died: 4-3-2016 Philipsburg PA obit:
1982 license, recommended by Wallaceton
1989 ordained
Interment: [body donated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 259
1982-85 assistant, Woodland parish (beginning 10/1/1982)
1985-88 Martinsburg
1988-89 Mill Hall
1989 retired
1997-98 Mt. Hope
Note: Erma M. Conrad appears to have been married at one time to a Mr. Shaw and to have worked for the West Decatur Water Authority before entering the ministry.
COOK, A. ROBERT
Born: married: Shirley Rae Blevins
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 356
1978 license, Delaware District, Assemblies of God
1986 local pastors license, recommended by Stewartstown
1989 ordained deacon
1992 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-80 associate, Bristol VA First Assembly of God
1980-85 assistant, Shrewsbury PA Assembly of God
1985-86 student?
1986 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
1986-91 Pine Creek circuit
1991-96 Curwensville
1996-98 Curwensville Mt. Joy
1998-04 Chambersburg St. Paul
2004-18 Waynesboro Christ
2018-19 Calvary
2019 retired
Note:
Mrs. Blevins is a sister to Rev. Robert Blevins, affiliation unknown.
COPULOS, JAMES R.
Born: married: Amanda _____
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Altoona Second Avenue
Interment:
Obit:
2008-13 Wrightsville Locust Street
2011-13 Wrightsville
Grace
2013-14 Wrightsville Hope (merger of Locust
Street into Grace)
2014-23 Harrisburg Mt. Calvary
CORBIN, FRED B.
Born: 3-18-1942 Altoona PA married: Nancy C. Wise (10/15/1971)
Died: obit:
1983 license
Interment:
Obit:
1983-86 Clearville
1986 inactive
Note:
Fred B. Corbin worked as a construction electrician for 20 years before
entering the ministry and appears to have returned to that vocation. In 2021, Fred and Nancy Corbin lived in Hollidaysburg
PA and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
CORCELIUS, G. EDWARD
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
1972 license, recommended by Huntingdon First
1973 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973 Mt. Victory (Jul Nov)
1973-75 student?
1975-77 Orbisonia parish
1977-79 Ulster
1979-82 Mexico Locust Run
1982-84 West Milton
1984-88 Fawn Grove
1988-89 sabbatical leave
1989 on leave (ending 9/15/1989)
1989-95 chaplain. Barrington IL Good Shepherd
Hospital (beginning 9/15/1989)
1995-00 Craley (beginning 8/15/1995)
2000-04 Altoona Fifth Avenue Llyswen
2004-12 Hughesville Christ
2012 retired
2012-22 Lewistown
Granville
2023- Cove
Forge
CORDOVA, VIDAL LUIS
Born: 9-9-1931 Manati, Puerto Rico married: Pilar Quintana
Died: 9-19-2015 obit:
married2: Juanita R. _____
1966 license, recommended by Chicago IL EUB obit2:
1980 ordained
Interment: Good Shepherd Memorial Gardens, Ocala FL
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 260
1967-72 Evangelical United Church of Puerto Rico
1972-73 ?
1973-75 chaplain, Joliet IL State Correctional Institution
1975-79 Community Services Administration, government of Puerto Rico
1979-85 York First Spanish
1985-93 General Board of Global Ministries, Panama Conference
1993-95 York First Spanish
1995 retired
Note:
Vidal L. Cordova is the father of Rev. Vidalis T. Lopez of the Florida
Conference..
COVERT, S. PHILIP
Born: married: Sue _____
Died: obit:
1966 ordained deacon, Iowa Conference
1968 ordained elder, Iowa Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1966-68 Rainsboro
1968-69 Haviland
1969-76 Scotch Plains, Greater New Jersey Conference
1976-81 Mendham, Greater New Jersey Conference
1981-86 Davenport Christ
1986-89 Spirit Lake
1989 transfer to Rocky Mountain Conference
1989-97 Colorado Springs First
1997-98 Park City Community
1998 Denver Emmanuel (7/1/1998 8/31/1998)
1998-07 Colorado Springs St. Paul (beginning 9/1/1998)
2007-09 York Asbury, Central Pennsylvania Conference
2009 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2009-11 York Asbury
2011 retired
2017 Pine
Grove (4/1/2017 6/30/2017)
COWFER, STEVEN F.
Born: married: Emily _____
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by York Calvary
Interment:
Obit:
2012-16 York Grace
2016-21 Neidig Memorial
2021-23 Mifflin Mexico
COWHER, KIM KENT
Born: 8-3-1952 Lexington KY married: Katie H. _____
Died: 2-14-2011 KY obit:
license, recommended by Bellefonte Faith
1978 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment: Saint Catherine Cemetery, Shirleysburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 395
1977-80 student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY
Lexington KY Epworth
1980-84 Rebersburg
1984-91 Bellwood Tipton
1991-96 Philipsburg Trinity
1996-10 disability leave
Note:
Before entering the ministry, Kim Cowher taught in the Bellefonte Area School
District 1974-77.
COY, DUANE J.
Born: married: Brenda _____
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Huntingdon Wesley Chapel
Interment:
Obit:
2009-13 Petersburg Crever Memorial (3/21/2009 11/1/2013)
2013-23 Altoona Greenwood (beginning 11/1/2013)
2020-23 Tipton
2023- Huntingdon First and Alexandria Hope
CRAWFORD, CHARLES JOHN
Born: married: Marilyn _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Philadelphia St. Lukes
1965 ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference
1967 ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1962-65 Philadelphia Mt. Hermon
1965-68 Avondale and Chatham
1968-70 Hummelstown Grace
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-73 Hummelstown Grace
1973-81 Woolrich
1981-88 York Otterbein
1988-95 Charlton
1995 retired
CRAWFORD, H. DONALD
Born: 3-23-1933 Napier twp, Bedford Co PA married: Carol _____
Died: 1-23-1977 obit:
1963 license, recommended by Helixville
1968 ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB
Interment: Helixville Cemetery, Napier PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 256
1963-69 New Castle Emmanuel
1969-70 Altoona Schum Memorial
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by change of boundary
1970-77 Altoona Schum Memorial (ending 1/23/1977)
1971-77 Altoona Broad Avenue (ending 1/23/1977)
Note: H. Donald Crawford is the father of Donald Crawford Rowe. The widowed Mrs. Crawford married Earl N. Rowe of the Methodist files.
CRAWFORD, PAUL FRANKLIN JR.
Born: married: Nancy -----
Died: obit:
1966 license, recommended by Centerville
1971 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1968-71 Mansfield circuit, West Virginia
Conference
1971-76 Doylesburg
1976-92 Paxtonville
1992-10 St. Thomas
2010 retired
CRAWFORD, STACY ALAN
Born: married: Lisa _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Dover Otterbein
1995 ordained deacon
1997 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-95 associate, Linglestown
1995-00 Delta-Bryansville (ending 1/15/2000)
2000-10 Greencastle First (starting 1/15/2000)
CREAMER, RICHARD A.
Born: married: Marjorie ______
Died: obit:
1983 license, recommended by Milesburg
1986 ordained deacon
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-84 Half Moon
1984-93 Powells Valley Zion
1993-06 Harrisburg Epworth Derry Street
2006-12 Royalton Emmanuel
2012 retired
Born: 10-21-1943 Wilkes-Barre PA married: Ruth Ann Kitzmiller
Died: 10-12-2002 Sugar Run, PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024,332
1983 license, recommended by Mansfield First
1986 ordained deacon
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 378
1983-84 student, Mansfield University
1983-84 Morris
1984-87 student, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
1984-87 Morris
1987-91 Muncy Valley
1991-95 Saxton Six Mile Run
1993-95 Dudley and Coalmont [renamed Christ larger parish]
1995-01 Covington Blossburg
2001-02 disability leave
Note:
Archie Cruikshank also reportedly served as interim pastor for Wilkes-Barre
First C hurch of Christ and as supply pastor for Inkerman & Plains
Presbyterian Church. The widowed Mrs.
Cruikshank later married a Mr. Richard H. Bedard and is buried in Wyalusing
Cemetery, Wyalusing PA. The burial
location for Archie Cruikshank is not known.
CUDDEBACK, REBECCA BOWER
Born: married: Terry Cuddeback
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Jersey Shore Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
2009-18 Jersey Shore First (beginning
2/1/2009)
2018-21 Lawrenceville
2021-23 Lightstreet
CUTCHALL, REBECCA J.
Born: married: James Cutchall
Died: obit:
2016 license, recommended by Knobsville
Interment:
Obit:
2015-16 Harrisonville (beginning 11/22/2015)
2016-19 Valley UM Parish
2019-23 Sidling Hill
DAGOSTINO, EDWARD T.
Born: married: Michelle _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Williamstown
2009 provisional elder
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-05 New Hope charge [Wiconisco Wesley
Loyalton]
2005-10 associate, Carlisle Grace
DAGOSTINO, WENDY M.
Born: married: Nicholas DAgostino
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Hamlin Centenary
Interment:
Obit:
2014-23 Waymart Calvary
2021-23 Prompton Community (beginning 9/1/2021)
DANIS, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Born: married: Linda _____
Died: obit:
1994 license, recommended by Mill Hall
1997 ordained deacon
2000 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-97 New Millport
1997-02 Lewistown Grove Memorial Glenwood
2002-16 Hegins Valley
2016 retired
2017-23 Picture
Rocks Parish
DARROW, JO ANN MULLEN
Born: married: Mark Darrow
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Lemoyne Grace
1994 ordained deacon
1997 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1995-98 associate, Linglestown
1998-01 Middleburg Trinity
2001-03 East Salem Otterbein
2003-12 Stoverdale (ending 1/31/2012)
2012 on leave (2/1/2012 3/15/2012)
2012-20 Middletown New Thing (ending
12/30/2019)
2020-25 on leave (beginning 1/1/2020)
DAUENBAUGH, PAUL R.
Born: married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
1997 license
Interment:
Obit:
Free Methodist
1997 transfer to Central Pennsylvania of the United Methodist Church
1997-10 Jerseytown
DAUGHERTY, GARY LEE
Born: married: Julie _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Windsor Area larger parish
1992 ordained deacon
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-90 Druck Valley
1900-92 ?
1992-94 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1994-03 Clearfield Centre Grove
2003-08 Uriah
2008-12 Shermans Dale Youngs (ending 9/1/2012)
2012-13 on leave (beginning 9/1/2012)
2013-18 Airville McKendree
2018 retired
DAUGHERTY, TERRY N.
Born: married: Connie _____
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by State College St. Pauls
Interment:
Obit:
1999-05 Sandy Ridge St. Pauls
2005-15 [Howard] Faith Chapel
2015 retired
DAVINSIZER, JOSHUA W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Bellwood Calvary
2016 provisional elder
2019 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2015-17 New Creation Parish
2017-19 Troy Holy Trinity Windfall
2017-19 East
Troy (ending 4/4/2019)
2019-22 McConnellsburg
2022-23 New Cumberland Baughman Memorial
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
DAVIS, JESSICA J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2022-23 State College St. Pauls
2023-25 Selinsgrove Wesley
2025 discontinued 1/2/2025
DAVIS, JOSEPH A.
Born: 5-7-1919 Andrews SC married: Mary Louise Crayton
Died: 8-23-1997 obit:
? ordained, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA
Obit: [The Washington Post 9/1/1997]
AME churches in Virginia
and North Carolina
1953-75 chaplain, US Army
1976-85 Harrisburg Camp Curtin Memorial
Mitchell
DAVIS, TODD M.
Born: married: Laura _____
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Fishing Creek Valley (beginning
8/8/2021)
DAVIS, YVETTE R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Washington Crossing, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2009-12 director of urban ministries, Eastern
Pennsylvania Conference
2012 transfer to Susquehanna
Conference
2012-14 York Asbury
2014-16 Harrisburg Grace (ending 5/1/2016)
2016- unappointed (beginning 5/1/2016)
DAWES, CATHERINE R.
Born: married: Arthur L. Dawes, Jr.
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 356
2010 license, recommended by Lock Haven East Main/Laurel Run
Interment:
Obit:
2010-14 Phelps Chapel
2014-21 Knoxville
2021-23 Trinity charge [Monroeton, New
Albany, Ulster]
DAWES, JAMES THOMAS
Born: married: Darlene _____
Died: obit:
1971 license, recommended by South Williamsport
1972 ordained deacon
1976 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1971 chaplain, Worlds End Ricketts Glen State Parks (summer)
1971-75 student, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
1971-73 Greigsville NY (beginning 9/1971)
1973-75 East Bloomfield Ionia NY (ending 12/31/1974)
1975-82 Trout Run (beginning 1/1/1975)
1982-89 Mansfield
1989-98 Dillsburg Calvary
1998-03 superintendent, Wellsboro District
2003-09 Hershey First
2009 retired
2010-11 Middletown
Evangelical (beginning 10/1/2010)
2012-15 Middletown
Wesley (ending 10/31/2015)
DAWES, MICHAEL J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Trout Run
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2008-12 State Line
2012-16 Northern Bedford
2016-20 Woodbury Faith
2020-22 Pine Run
2020-21 Avis
2021-22 Salladasburg
Larryville
2022-23 New Oxford Guldens Salem
DEARING, DAVID LYNN
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
license, recommend by Tyrone Good Shepherd
1979 ordained deacon
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-81 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1979-81 student assistant, Cranford NJ
1981-86 Lock Haven parish
1986-90 Williamsport Newberry
1990-03 Huntingdon 15th Street Donation
2003-11 Shepherdstown
2011-19 Selinsgrove Wesley (ending 10/31/2019)
2019 retired (11/1/2019)
2019-23 chaplain. Riverwoods Senior Living Community (beginning 10/1/2019)
DECKER, DEBRA A.
Born: married: Gene _____
Died: obit:
2006 license
Interment:
Obit:
2006-15 associate, Everett (ending 1/1/2015)
2015 unappointed (1/1/2015
6/30/2015)
2015-18 Clearville Stevens Chapel
2018 retired
DELOOZE, VALERIE M.
Born: married: Harry Delooze
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Howard St. Johns
Interment:
Obit:
2002-05 [Howard] Faith Chapel
2005-13 Mackeyville Mill Hall
2013 retired
2013-21 Rebersburg
2021-23 Mt.
Pleasant Mills Aline (beginning 10/3/2021)
DENELSBECK, MICHAEL W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-21 Middle Ridge
2021-23 Nelson
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Michael W. Denelsbeck served as a local pastor.
DENISON, RICHARD EUGENE JR.
Born: 3-10-1959 Harrisburg PA married: Barbara Jones
Died: 7-19-2024 Mechanicsburg PA obit:
license, recommended by Shiremanstown
1983 ordained deacon
1987 ordained elder
Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 336
1985-86 Harrisburg State Street
1987-87 Harrisburg State Street First
1987-90 associate, Hummelstown Trinity
1990-94 Wrightsville Grace
1994-02 Mechanicsburg Hope
2002-09 Paxton
2004-06
military leave (beginning
10/1/2004)
2009-14 Harrisburg Harris Street
2014-20 Waggoners
2020 retired
2020-22 Mechanicsburg
Hope (beginning 10/1/2020)
2022-23 Paxton
DENNIS, DANIEL LEWIS
Born: 3-20-1950 Nanticoke PA married: [single]
Died: 3-29-2019 Carlisle PA obit:
1975 ordained deacon, recommended by Pleasant Valley
1980 ordained elder
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Harveyville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 337
1975-78 Harveyville
1978-79 student?
1979-90 Port Trevorton
1990-01 Berwick Bethany
2001-07 superintendent, York District
2007-18 Boiling Springs Otterbein
2018 retired
DERK, J. MICHAEL
Born: married: Tammy _____
Died: obit:
1984 license, recommended by Philipsburg Trinity
1988 ordained deacon
1992 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1984-86 Spruce Creek
1986-91 Wrightsville Locust Street
1991-93 Gatchelville Crossroads
1993-98 Jacobus Christ
1998-04 chaplain, National Guard (ending 9/4/2004)
2004 honorable location [see 2005, 242]
Note:
J. Michael Derk is the son of Jay Merrill Derk and the grandson of Ferdinand
Derk both of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.
DERR, DENNIS WAYNE
Born: married: Diane _____
Died: obit:
1976 license, recommended by Montoursville Faith
1976 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-78 Turkey Valley
1978-86 Belleville
1986-89 Oriole
1989-94 East Prospect Zion
1994-10 Danville Trinity
2010-14 Hollidaysburg
2014 retired
2024 withdrew 6/20/2024
Note: Dennis W. Derr is the author of Rooted in the Word: A Congregational Plan for Bible Reading, Preaching and Study.
DESHONG, CLYDE HAROLD III
Born: married: Raneeta _____
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by Harrisonville Asbury
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-80 student, Eastern Baptists Seminary
1980-86 Liberty
1986-99 Witmers
1999-15 Fayetteville Calvary
2015-20 Hershey First
2020 retired
DESMOND, JEANETTE E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2021 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Runville Curtin
DETTERLINE, SUZANNE
Born: married: Charles Detterline
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Coalmont
Interment:
Obit:
2004-05 Robertsdale (ended 12/31/24004)
2005-12 Broad Top Area parish (beginning
1/1/2005)
2012-16 Greater Broad Top charge
2016-23 Tatesville
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Suzanne Detterline served as a local pastor.
DEUTSH, BARRY LEE
Born: married: Rita Naugle
Died: 10-8-1994 obit:
1976 ordained deacon, recommended by Walnut Bottom
1980 ordained elder
Interment: [cremated: ashes spread at Fuller Lake]
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 442
1970-74 Shade Valley (beginning 7/5/1970)
1974-89 Littlestown
1989-94 Newberg
1992-94
1994-94 East Prospect
Note:
Barry L. Deutsch is the father of Jennifer Deutsch Thomas
DIEHL, KEITH D.
Born: married: Kathryn _____
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Lawrenceville Calvary
Interment:
Obit:
2009-13 Mountainview parish [Tioga County] (beginning 1/1/2009)
2013- Western PA Conference
DILE, JAMES A.
Born: married: Peggy _____
Died: obit:
1971 license, recommended by Chambersburg First
1973 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1971-74 Spring Run
1974-80 associate, Chambersburg First
1980-90 Mercersburg
1990-96 Town Hill
Note:
James A. Dile served as a lay pastor
DITTMAN, CATHERINE W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Philipsburg Grace
Interment:
Obit:
2004-23 Mountain Top [Snow Shoe]
2022-23 Moshannon Pine Glen (beginning 1/9/2023)
DITTMAN, PETER K.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2009 license
Interment:
Obit:
2009-14 Curtin (beginning 4/1/2009)
2014-21 Bald Eagle
2021 retired
DOAN, RONALD OGDEN
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Watsontown
1983 ordained deacon
1987 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-85 associate, Red Lion Bethany
1985-92 Almedia Espy
1992-97 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1997-06 Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar (ending 9/6/2006)
2006-09 on leave (beginning 9/6/2006 and ending 9/5/2009)
2009 retired (beginning 9/6/2009)
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn (7/1/2023)
DOBBS, DALE W.
Born: 8-9-1948 Carlisle PA married: Jane E. Smith
Died: 6-15-2013 Loysville PA obit:
1997 license
Interment: Blain Cemetery, Blain PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 253
1998-99 Blain New Germantown
1999-03 Greater Shawville parish
2003-10 McVeytown parish
DODSON, JAMES M.
Born: married: Frances _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Summit NJ First
1970 ordained deacon, Northern New Jersey Conference
1972 ordained elder, Northern New Jersey Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1970-71 student, Andover-Newton Theological Seminary
1971-74 Irvington NJ
1974 transfer to Minnesota Conference
1974-76 Preston Lanesboro
1976-82 associate, Rochester Christ
1982-86 Mankato Centenary
1986-87 Bloomington Hillcrest
1987-93 ?
1993-95 Shippensburg Christ, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1995 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1995-98 Stewartstown
1998 retired
DODSON, JOAN S.
Born: married: Donald Dodson
Died: obit:
2000 license
provisional elder
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
DORNAN, ROBERT R.
Born:
married:
Connie _____
Died:
obit:
2009 license
Interment:
Obit:
2009-23 New Hope
2021-23 Pleasant
Gap
Note:
Robert Dornan served as a local pastor, retired from the Western Pennsylvania
Conference.
DOTSON, MARY F.
Born: married: Curtis Dotson
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Camp Hill
Interment:
Obit:
2009-10 Mechanicsburg Wesley
DOVERSPIKE, RONALD LEE
Born: married: Marcell _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Shrader
1984 ordained deacon
1987 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1984-85 student, Wesley Seminary in Washington DC
1985-00 Keystone Perry
2000-04 Martinsburg
2004-12 Northern Bedford
2012-23 Red Lion Bethany
DOYLE, BRIAN C.
Born: married: Lisa _____
Died: obit:
2016 license
Interment:
Obit:
2015-16 Dillsburg Mt. Airy (beginning
10/1/2015)
2016-19 New Oxford Emory
2019-21 Watsontown (ending 12/31/2021)
2021-23 Mt. Gilead (beginning 1/1/2022)
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Brian C. Coyle served as a local padtor.
DROMAZOS, JOHN JAMES
Born: 12-25-1938 Dansville NY married: Barbara _____
Died: 11-18-2020 obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Dansville NY
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 354
United Presbyterian Church
1965-66 West Delhi NY
1966-67 student, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
1967-70 Pittsburgh PA Sharosburg
1970-74 Arkport NY
1974-75 Whitneyville larger parish, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1975 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
1975-78 Whitneyville larger parish
1978-85 Pleasant Gap
1985-88 Duncansville
1988-02 Lewisburg Beaver Memorial
2002-09 Chambersburg First
2009 retired
DRUCK, MICHAEL ANDREW
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
1974 license, recommended by Freysville Zion
1978 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-77 Half Moon
1977-80 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1980-83 Spring Run
1983-88 Mt. Victory
1988-96 Lightstreet
1996-02 Fawn Grove
2002-09 Milton St. Andrews
2009-16 Chestnut Grove
2016 retired
DUBBS, NICHAEL C.
Born: married: Michelle
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Bloomsburg Wesley
2008 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2004-10 Allenport
DUGAN, JoANNE C. (ISENBERG)
Born: 4-17-1933 Hollidaysburg PA married: Goodling Harper Dugan
Died: 4-30-2009 Altoona PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 408
1992 license, recommended by Hollidaysburg First
Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 417
1993-95 associate, Christ Larger Parish [Coalmont, Dudley, Saxton, Six Mile Run]
1995-03 Dudley Six Mile Run
2003 retired
2003-09 Altoona
Broad Avenue
Note:
JoAnne Dugan worked as a nurse before entering the ministry.
DUNKELBERGER, JUDI A. [see HERROLD, JUDI A.]
DURRWACHTER, JANET L.
Born: married: Kenneth Durrwachter
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Williamsport First
2014 provisional elder
2016 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2011-23 Williamsport First (beginning
1/14/2011)
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
EATON, BRAND WESLEY
Born: married: Susan _____
Died: obit:
1999 ordained deacon, recommended by Port Royal
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1991-97 Warrensville
1997-99 associate, Newport parish
1999-06 York Springs
2006-10 New Cumberland Baughman Memorial
(ending 9/15/2010)
2010-23 chaplain, Bethany Village (beginning
9/15/2010)
EBERLY, DOUGLAS MARTIN
Born: married: Delores _____
Died: obit:
1989 ordained deacon, recommended by Hershey First
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1887-90 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1990-92 associate, York Messiah
1992-99 Upper Adams parish
1999-12 Watsontown
2012-15 Yorkana Christ
2015-18 Williamsport Pine Street (ending
12/31/2018)
2018-23 Marysville Wesley (beginning
1/1/2019)
Note:
Douglas M. Eberly is the son of Harry M. Eberly.
EBERLY, HARRY MARTIN
Born: 12-26-1929 York PA married: Betty B. Barb
Died: 2-23-2021 Chambersburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 355
1962 license, recommended by Palmyra Second
1969 ordained, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference EUB
Interment: Grand View Memorial Park, Annville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 355
1961-62 associate, Enders Powells Valley
1962-64 Lickdale circuit
1964-70 associate, Hershey First
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-76 associate, Hershey First
1976-79 Hummels Wharf Christ Community
1979-95 Grantville
1995 retired
Note: Harry M. Eberly is the father of Douglas M. Eberly.
EDDINGER, ROBERT J.
Born: 8-1-1942 Berwick PA married: Katherine Schloyer
Died: 11-17-2018 obit:
2001 license
Interment: Elan Memorial Park, Bloomsburg PA
Obit:
2001-16 Almedia Ridge Street
2016 retired
Note:
Robert J. Eddinger served as a second career local pastor. He previously worked as a coach and math
teacher at Southern Columbia Area High School for 35 years.
EHRSAM, KATHLEEN M.
Born: married: Edwin Ehrsam
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Selinsgrove Christ
Interment:
Obit:
2001-03 Freeburg and Shamokin Dam
2003-05 Susquehanna circuit
2005-08 Burnham parish
2008-12 Williamsport Third Street
2011-12
Duboistown
2012-13 Milton St. Peters
2013-16 unappointed
2016 retired
Note:
Kathleen M. Ehrsam served as a local pastor.
EICHELBERGER, KIMBERLY A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-20 Greater Broad Top New Hope Parish
2020-23 Manor Hill
EICHELBERGER, VERNON RAY
Born: 1-22-1924 Williamsport PA married: Gladys Marks
Died: 8-9-2012 Lewisburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 333
1969 license, recommended by Williamsport Newberry
1975 ordained deacon
Interment: Green Lawn Memorial Park, Montgomery PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 262
1970-71 assistant, Picture Rocks (beginning
1/1/1970)
1971-72 McElhatten
1972-74 Picture Rocks
1974-75 assistant, Picture Rocks (ending
7/31/1975)
1975-77 Eagle Mill Creek (beginning
8/1/1975)
1971-83 Sugar Valley (beginning 10/1/1977)
1983-88 Williamsport High Street
1988 retired
EISLEY, CECILY A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1999 ordained deacon, recommended by Montoursville Faith
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1993-97 New Oxford
1997-98 ?
1998-99 associate, Faith Community Church of
the Brethren
1999-02 Pennsdale Huntersville
2002-06 Ft. Loudon Edenville
2006-11 McClure
2011-16 Springville
2016-18 Millerstown
2018 retired
2018-22 Ralston
2022-23 Salladasburg
Larryville
Note:
Cecily A. Eisley is the daughter of Robert L. Close (1929-2008) of the Central
Pennsylvnaia Conference of the Evangelical Church and is a sister to Christine
Close Brinker, wife of David L. Brinker.
ELLENBERGER, MORRIS LEE
Born: married: Deborah _____
Died: obit:
1975 ordained deacon, recommended by Grantville St. Johns
1979 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1975-78 student, Methesco in Delaware OH
1978-82 Forksville
1982-86 on leave
1986-93 Penbrook Trinity
1993-98 Elkland
1998-02 Stewartstown
2002-16 State College Park Forest Village
2016-20 Middletown Evangelical
2020 retired
ELLIOTT, SUZANNE A.
Born: married: Rick Elliott
Died: obit:
1997 license, recommended by Harrisburg Calvary
2001 provisional elder
2004 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2000-10 Orrtanna
2010-15 Chambersburg Park Avenue
2015-21 Fayetteville Calvary
2021-23 Valley View St. Andrews
ELMER, VICKI L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Lewistown First
Interment:
Obit:
2004-15 Valley parish (Shrader, Salem, St.
Marks)
2015 retired
EMINHIZER, VIRGINIA
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1992 license, recommended by Pleasant Gap
1997 associate member, Holston Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1992-93 Elk Creek (beginning 3/1/1992)
1993-94 Grant Flat Ridge
1994-98 Spring Valley
1998 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1998-2004 Shade Valley
2004-10 Clearfield parish
2010 retired
ESHELMAN, LINDA OLSON
Born: married: Wilbert Eshelman
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Mt. Union
1992 ordained deacon
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1991-94 Altoona Wesley Asbury
1994-97 associate, Chambersburg St. Paul
1997-99 Julian Martha (ending 1/1/1999)
associate, State College St. Pauls
1999-00 Unity parish: Julian, Martha, Grays,
Ross (beginning1/1/1999)
2000-06 Craley New Bridgeville
2006 retired
ESTEP, ADAM J.
Born: married: Kendra _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Linglestown Life
2008 provisional deacon
Interment:
Obit:
2008-09 CrossPoint
2009-22 minister of community life,
Linglestown Life (ending 5/15/2022)
2022-23 on leave (beginning 5/15/2022)
ESTES, JOHN M.
Born: married: Cindy _____
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Chestnut Grove
Interment:
Obit:
2011-14 Upper Adams
2014-21 Dillsburg Calvary
2021-23 unappointed
EVANS, ELLEN JANICE
Born: 5-25-1951 Syracuse NY married: Norman A. Evans
Died: 5-27-2020 Binghamton NY obit:
license, recommended by Woolrich
1996 ordained deacon
1998 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020. 334
1996-01 Lock Haven Area ministry
2001-02 Mill Hall Flemington
2002-05 Mill Hall
2005-13 associate, Hummelstown Trinity
2013-15 Lewsitown First
2015 retired
Note:
Ellen J. Evans is married to Norman A. Evans of the Wyoming Conference.
FANUS, GARY L.
Born: married: Kathy _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Dillsburg Calvary
Interment:
Obit:
2014-23 Upper Adams
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Gary L. Fanus served as a local pastor
FAULKNER, JOSEPH EDWARD SR.
Born: 3-15-1928 Augusta GA married: Barbara Anne Blackburn (9/6/1952)
Died: 11-1-2016 Warminster PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 263
? license, Georgia
Interment: Graysville Cemetery, Graysville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 282
1958-91 faculty, Penn State University
1991 retired
Note: While Joseph E. Faulkner was never a formal member of the Susquehanna Conference, he was an active member at State College St. Pauls and functioned there for many years as an associate pastor.
FAUPEL, JACK McSPARREN
Born: 6-9-1922 Wolfsburg PA married: Dorothy M. Egold
Died: 4-20-2014 Wolfsburg PA obit: [3/29/1923 1/14/2015]
license
Interment: Bedford County Memorial Park, Bedford PA
Obit:
1970-75 Warfordsburg
Note:
Jack Faupel was a member of the UCC denomination and employed by Exxon on the
Pennsylvania Turnpike. He served
Warfordsburg as a lay pastor.
FAUST, KRAIG LEE
Born: married: Susan _____
Died: obit:
1970 ordained deacon, recommended by Sprucetown
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1970-73 student, Union Theological Seminary
in VA
1973-75 associate, Linglestown
1975-81 Dellville
1981-87 Enola Mt. Zion
1987-96 Tyrone Good Shepherd
1996-04 Williamsport St. Johns
2004-12 Williamsport St. Johns Newberry
(Newberry merged into St. Johns)
2012 retired
2016-17 Hanover
Grace
2020-23 South
Franklin
FEASTER, JOHN C.
Born:2-22-1935 married: Carol Coleman
Died: 1-12-2025 obit:
1992 ordained deacon, recommended by Millersburg Hebron
1999 ordained elder
Interment: [remains dedicated to medical science]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 336
1985-89 Mount Hope
1989-93 Burlington
1993-96 Forge Hill charge
1996-99 New Freedom Trinity
1999 retired
2014-16 Newport
Hope Eternal (ending 12/31/2016)
FEESER, WILLIAM RICHARD JR.
Born: married: Ruth _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Harrisburg Calvary
1977 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-79 student, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
1979-80 Half Moon (beginning 2/15/1979)
1980-84 Castanea Farrandsville
1984-86 Pennsdale Huntersville
1986-89 Oakville
1989-97 Lewisberry
1997-99 Fairbrook
1999-00 Newport parish
2000-15 Penbrook
2015 retired
2016-22 West
Fairview
FELTY, L. JEAN
Born: married: John Felty
Died: obit:
2012 provisional elder, recommended by Paxton
2015 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2012-20 New Bloomfield
2020 retired
FENSTERBUSH, BRUCE ERNEST
Born: married: Kathleen _____
Died: obit:
1998 license, recommended by Red Lion Chapel Church
2000 provisional elder
2003 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1999-07 Jacobus Christ
2007-12 Carlisle Grace
2012-18 York Zion
2018-20 Boiling Springs Otterbein
2020 retired
2023 disaffiliated
FETTEROLF, THOMAS J.
Born: 1-19-1939 Bloomsburg PA married: Kathryn Sue Lowe
Died: 10-16-2013 Frosty Valley PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 282
1984 license, recommended by Mifflinville
Interment: Emanuel Reformed Church Cemetery, Mainville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 255
1984-86 Hendrickson Mooresburg
1986-97 Port Matilda
1997-04 Salladasburg
2004 retired
Note:
Thomas J. Fetterolf worked as a nurse at several institutions, including
Danville State Hospital, before retiring in 1984 to enter the ministry. His story is told in the book My Three Lives: The Farmer, The Nurse, And
the Pastor.
FIELDS, FRED J.
Born: 5-15-1942 Williamsport PA married: Linda S. Henry (8/14/1965)
Died: 12-15-2014 Lock Haven PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 336
1981 license, recommended by Wallis Run
1987 ordained deacon
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 264
1981-90 Buffalo Valley [Forest Hill, Mazeppa,
Pleasant Grove, Sunrise]
1990-95 Airville
1995-99 Berwick Calvary
1999-06 Berwick Calvary and St. Paul (ending
2/28/2006)
2006-10 Castanea (beginning 3/1/2006)
2010 retired
2013-14 Mackeyville/Mill
Hall
Note:
Mrs. Fields was cremated. The burial arrangements
for Fred Fields are unknown.
FIRESTONE, JON DONALD
Born: 12-3-1944 married: Nancy Dawson
Died: 11-13-2013 Newport PA obit:
license, recommended by York Zion
1995 ordained deacon
2001 ordained elder
Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Indiantown Gap
PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 256
1996-00 Almedia Espy
2000-02 Newport parish
2002-04 Newport Hope Eternal (uniting of Newport parish into one congregation)
2004-10 Leesburg
Note:
J. Donald Firestone is married to Nancy Firestone.
FIRESTONE, NANCY DAWSON
Born: married: J. Donald Firestone
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Stewartstown
1991 ordained deacon
1995 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1991-92 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1992-00 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd
2000-02 associate, New Cumberland Baughman Memorial (ending 3/31/2002)
2002-22 incapacity leave (beginning 4/1/2002)
2022 retired
Note:
Nancy Firestone is married to J. Donald Firestone.
FISHER, RAYMOND JEFFREY
Born: married: Andrea _____
Died: obit:
1979 license, recommended by McVeytown
1982 ordained deacon
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-80 student, Penn State University
1980-83 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1982-83 Woodland parish (beginning 10/1/1982)
1983-86 Woodland (beginning 10/1/1982)
1986-88 on leave
1988-95 associate, Red Lion Bethany
1995-07 Grantville
2007-21 associate, Harrisburg Calvary
2021 retired
FITZGERALD, CHARLES ALLEN
Born: 11-19-1950 Franklin PA married: Jill Lynn Grahl (6/25/1972)
Died: 7-31-2017 PA obit:
1973 license
1973 ordained deacon
1976 ordained elder
Interment: Franklinville Cemetery, Franklinville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 269
1971-72 Fairbrook Spruce Creek (beginning
9/1972)
1972-75 student, Wesley Theological Seminary
1974-75 Hopewell
Dudley
1975-77 Hopewell Dudley
1977-83 Williamsburg Cove Forge (ending
4/15/1983)
1983-92 St. Thomas (beginning 4/15/1983)
1992-93 York Zion
1993-05 Tyrone Wesley (ending 6/1/2005)
2005 retired
Note:
Charles A. Fitzgerald is the grandson son of Howard S. Fitzgerald (1894-1973)
of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.
FLECK, JOEY A.
Born: married: Traci _____
Died: obit:
2006 license
2008 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2006-08 Oval
2008-13 Altoona Greenwood (ending 10/31/2013)
2013-23 Petersburg Crever Memorial (beginning
10/31/2013)
2019-23 Huntingdon
First
2023- Mapleton Parish (Grace, Trinity,
Bowmans Chapel)
FLUKE, RICHARD B. II
Born: married: Betty _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Coalmont
Interment:
Obit:
2005-13 assistant, Everett Area Cooperating
Ministry
2013-16 Tatesville
2016-22 Shade Valley
2022 retired
FOLK, RONALD E. II
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2018 license
Interment:
Obit:
2018-20 Three Springs Parish
2020-23 Skinners Eddy South Auburn
2021-23 Russell Hill
FOOR, D. ANN
Born: married: Charles Foor
Died: obit:
2017 license
Interment:
Obit:
2017-21 Huntingdon 12th Street
(beginning 4/10/2017)
2021-23 unappointed
FOOTE, ELIZABETH I.
Born: 1-7-1920 Sendai, Japan married: Kenneth Charles Foote
Died: 1-24-2004 obit: [3-26-1915 12-3-1991]
1976 ordained elder, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference
2004, 615
1974-76 student
1975-76 Warfordsburg, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1976-80 Baltimore St. Matthews
1976-80 Exeter Memorial
1980-82 Washington DC Mount Vernon Place
1982-87 Temple Hills Church of the Redeemer
1987 retired
Note:
Elizabeth Foote is the daughter of Methodist missionary and seminary professor
Rev. Charles Wheeler Iglehart (?-1969) of the New York Conference. She is the mother of Rev. Florence Elaine
Foote-Blum of the Minnesota Conference.
FOOTE, REBECCA L.
Born: married: Seneca Foote
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Chelsea MI First
1998 ordained, Detroit Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1991-98 associate, Chelsea First
1998 transfer to Holston Conference
1998-05 Forrest Avenue St. Elmo
2005 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2005-10 Sunbury Otterbein
2010-15 Lewisburg Beaver Memorial
2015 retired
Note:
Rebecca L. Foote is married to Seneca Foote.
FOOTE, SENECA S.
Born: married: Rebecca _____
Died: obit:
? license
1974 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-76 Charlottesville First
1976-79 Ferrum St. James
1979-80 chaplain, University of Virginia Medical Center
1980-88 administrator, Hermitage
1988 transfer to Peninsula Conference
1988-90 director, Peninsula Homes
1990-91 located
1991-93 president, UM Retirement Communities
1993 transfer to Detroit Conference
1993-98 president, UM Retirement Communities
1998-04 CEO, Alexian Village of Tennessee (ending 9/20/2004)
2004-08 CEO, Abright Care Services of Lewisburg PA (beginning 9/20/2004)
2008 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
2008-11 CEO, Albright Care Services
2011 retired
Note: Seneca S. Foote is married to Rebecca Foote.
FORD, PAMELA HADDON
Born: married: Roger Ford
Died: obit:
1975 license, recommended by Northumberland Christ
1975 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-76 student, Duke Divinity School
1975-76 director
of Christian education, Durham NC Asbury
1976-78 associate, Harrisburg Calvary
1978-81 associate, Carlisle Allison
1981-83 on leave
1983-87 Lemasters
1987-95 Rockville
1995-02 Middletown Wesley
2002-05 associate, State Colle St. Pauls
2005-11 superintendent, State College
District
2011 retired
2011-12 Williamsport
Pine Street
2012-13 McVeytown
Parish (beginning 11/1/2012)
2018-19 State
College Albright Bethune (beginning 1/15/2018)
FORD, RENEE
Born: married: Robert L. Ford
Died: obit:
1999 license, recommended by Morrisonville Community, Troy Conference
2001 commissioned
2004 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1998-99 Upper Calder circuit, British
Methodist Church
1999-00 ?
2000-02 associate, Honesdale Central,
Wywoming Conference
2002-03 Sweden Valley
2003-16 Houserville Woodycrest
2016-19 Nittany (ending 4/21/2019)
2019-23 Woodycrest Grays (beginning
4/22/2019)
Note:
Renee Ford is married to Robert L. Ford
FORD, ROBERT LEE
Born: married: Renee _____
Died: obit:
1996 license, recommended by State College St. Pauls
2000 ordained deacon
2004 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1996-99 student, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
1999-02 Elkland
2002- Houtzdale Madera
2023- Allemansville
- Janesville
FORSHEY, MARY K.
Born: married: Michael Forshey
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2022-25 Northumberland Trinity Sunbury
Otterbein
2025 discontinued 6/30/2025
FOSTER, SANDRA LAURENE HUSTON
Born: 3-13-1943 Austin PA married: Harry D. Foster Jr.
Died: -31-2010 Trout Run PA obit: [2/20/1938 5/4/2024]
1987 license, recommended by Wellsboro
1989 ordained deacon
1993 ordained elder
Interment: Gilmore Cemetery, Sinnemahoning PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 396
1987-94 Harrison Valley
1994-99 Endless Mountain Group Ministry
(ending 11/1/1999)
1999-10 Trout Run Rose Valley (beginning
11/1/1999)
FOX, JAMES FRANKLIN
Born: married: Betty _____
Died: obit:
1967 license, recommended by Frederick MD Centennial Memorial
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1966-67 Williamsport MD Rehoboth (ending
4/1967)
1967 Greenmount MD (beginning 4/1967)
1967-70 Lewisberry
1970-73 York Haven Pleasant Grove
1973-77 associate, New Cumberland Baughman
Memorial
1977-80 Shickshinnry
1980-84 Millersburg Hebron
1984-94 Northumberland Trinity
1994-02 Bellefonte Trinity
2002 retired
2003-15 Valley
UM Parish
FREEMAN-FRANK, CHRISTINE C.
Born: married: Charles Frank
Died: obit:
2007 license
Interment:
Obit:
2007-08 New Millport
2008-10 Mt. Zion OShanter
FREEMAN, TIFFANY M.
Born: married: Jerry Freeman
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Roaring Spring Trinity
1985 ordained deacon
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-89 Wolfsburg
1989-93 Claysburg
1993-99 Huntingdon 12th Street
1993-97 Mill
Creek
1999-07 associate, Hollidaysburg First
2007 retired
FRENCH, ROBERT P. II
Born: married: Cassandra _____
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Grace Lemoyne
Interment:
Obit:
2013-15 Middleburg
2015-23 Cito
FRENCH, RONALD S.
Born: married: Denise _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Fisherdale
1984 ordained deacon
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-88 Catawissa Circuit
1988-94 Sunbury Albright
1994-00 York Fourth
2000-10 Winterstown
2010-23 Danville Trinity
FRITZ, CALEB J.
Born: married: Elizabeth _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Benton
Interment:
Obit:
2013-23 Espy Trinity
FULLER, CYNTHIA ANN RASKI
Born: married: Gerald Fuller
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Altoona Simpson
1978 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-77 staff, Altoona Lutheran-Methodist Sixth Ward Parish
1977-80 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1978-80 Dayton OH Grace
1980-87 York Bethlehem (ending 12/31/1986)
1987 on leave (beginning 1/1/1987)
1987-95 Stewartstown
1995-00 superintendent, Lewisburg District
2000-02 associate, State College St. Pauls
2002-04 associate, Camp Hill
2004 retired
Note:
Cynthia Raski Fuller is married to Gerald Fuller. She is a niece of Rev. Clyde Larue Fritz
(1930-2006), affiliation uncertain.
FULLER, GERALD WAYNE
Born: married: Cynthia Raski
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Detroit Conference
1988 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1988-95 Delta Bryansville
1995-98 Selinsgrove Christ
1998-02 on leave (ending 12/31/2001)
2002-05 executive director, Stewardship Foundation (1/1/2002 to 12/31/2004)
2005-11 on leave (beginning 1/1/2005)
2011 honorable location, reporting to
Williston NC charge conference
Note:
Gerald W. Fuller was married to Cynthia Raski Fuller. He moved to Aiken SC.
FUNK, ERIC L.
Born: married: Tracy _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Fishing Creek Salem
1999 ordained deacon
2003 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1998-00 Fowlersville Lime Ridge
2000-06 associate, Carlisle Allison
2006-10 Hallam Faith
2010-12 Selinsgrove Christ
2012-21 New Kingstown Trinity
2021-23 Honesdale Central
FUNK, TIMOTHY AMOS
Born: married: Sharon _____
Died: obit:
1986 ordained deacon, recommended by Chambersburg St. Johns
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-94 Catawissa Circuit
1994-98 Felton
1998-14 Waggoners
2014-22 Red Lion St. Pauls
2022-23 Fawn Grove
Note:
Timothy A. Funk is the son of Amos M. Funk (1888-1972) of the United Brethren
Church.
FURMAN, MAX WILLIAM
Born: married: Kathy _____
Died: obit:
1977 ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport Trinity
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-79 student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY
1979-85 Millerton Daggett
1985-06 Elimsport
2006-07 chaplain, US Army
2007 retired
2009 South
Williamsport (8/31/2009 12/31/2009)
2015-23 Antes
Fort Oriole
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
FYOCK, ANNA MARIE
Born: 1-27-1960 married: [single]
Died: 7-22-2017 obit:
2008 license, recommended by Madera
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Brisbin PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 270
2008-10 Catawissa Circuit (beginning
5/15/2008)
Born: 2-10-1928 Rumble WV married: Aldene Louise Weaver (6/29/1957)
Died: 11-21-1999 obit:
1951 license, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Church
1952 ordained deacon
1953 ordained elder
Interment: Butler County Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Butler
PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 362
1951-56 McKnight
1956-69 associate, McKeesport First
1959-64 Monessen
1964-75 Johnstown Grove Avenue
1975-82 Sewickley
1982-91 Franklin First
1991 retired
1997-81 Houtzdale
Madera, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1998-99 Buffalo
Run, Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note:
Following his retirement from the Western Pennsylvania Conference, Jackson
Gabany moved to the Boalsburg area, near his son, and supplied congregations in
the State College District as needed.
GABLE, DENNIS RALPH
Born: 10-11-1947 York PA married: Patricia C. Crooks
Died: 1-6-2018 York PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 261
1969 license, York Second
1970 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment: Salem Union Cemetery, Jacobus PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 270
1969-72 Hellam Druck Valley
1972-77 Charlton
1977-79 associate, Hummelstown Trinity
1979-84 staff, CONTACT Teleministries
1984-89 on leave
1989-91 Altoona Wesley Asbury
1991-95 Millerstown
1995-00 Harrisburg 29th Street
2000-05 Phillipsburg Grace
2005-09 Tyrone Wesley
2009 retired
Note:
Dennis R. Gable is the husband of Patricia Gable.
GABLE, PATRICIA C.
Born: 3-11-1943 Pittsburgh PA married: Dennis R. Gable
Died: 3-24-2916 York PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 270
1995 license, recommended by Millerstown
Interment: Salem Union Cemetery, Jacobus PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 261
1995-00 Halifax Jacobs
2000-09 Port Matilda
2009 retired
Note:
Patricia C. Gable is the wife of Dennis R. Gable. She worked in the medical field for 25 years before
entering the ministry.
GALLAHER, STEPHEN ELDER
Born: married: Anne _____
Died: obit:
1977 license, recommended by Camp Hill
1979 ordained deacon
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-78 student, Messiah College
1977-78 Dillsburg Mt. Zion (beginning 1/1/1977)
1978-85 Turkey Valley
1985-97 Warriors Mark
1994-96 Grays
1997-99 associate, Camp Hill
1999-16 executive director, Salt n Light
Youth Ministry
2016 retired
2024
withdrew 11/15/2024
GALLOWAY, MICHELLE K.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Damascus Abrahamsville
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Michelle K.
Galloway served as a local pastor.
GALLOWAY, MITCHELL MONROE
Born: married: Carol _____
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by York Messiah
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1980-86 Chambersburg St. Johns
1986-94 Belleville Watts Memorial
1994-02 Adamsville Dallastown Trinity
2002-15 York Fourth
2015-18 Winterstown
2018 retired
GARRETT, MELIA C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2022-23
Daleville Maple Lake
GATHAGAN, CAROL LYNN
Born: married: Boyd Gathagan
Died: obit:
1994 ordained deacon, recommended by Curwensville
1999 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-94 New Millport
1994-01 Altoona Wesley Asbury
2001-04 Altoona Jaggard Schum
2004 retired
2009-14 Altoona
Asbury (ending 9/30/2014)
2015-18 Altoona
Asbury (beginning 9/6/2015)
GEARHART, BRUCE DWIGHT
Born: 1-9-1939 Indiana PA married: Nioma Peffer
Died: 10-5-2020 obit:
1961 license, recommended by ? First EUB, Indiana Conference
1969 ordained deacon
1971 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 357
1959-60 Cedar Grove, Virginia Conference
1960-61 South Branch charge, Virginia Conference
1961-62 Sleepy Creek
1962-63 South Branch
1963-67 student, Messiah College
1963-67 Chestnut Grove, Susquehanna Conference
1967-71 student, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Naperville IL
1967-69 Mt. Gilboa Battle Ground, North Indiana Conference
1969-71 Oconomowoc Sullivan, Wisconsin
1971-81 Duncannon Parish
1981-93 Enola Emmanuel
1993-97 Mount Calvary Manada Hill
1997-01 Marysville Bethany
2001 retired
Note:
Bruce D. Gearhart is the grandson of local preacher Rev. Josiah H. Miller (1867-1949)
of the Evangelical Church in western Pennsylvania.
GELBACH, ROBERT B.
Born: married: Wanda _____
Died: obit:
1958 license, recommended by Indianapolis Belmont
1963 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1958-60 Noblesville Union Chapel
1960-62 Indianapolis Second
1962-64 Portland
1964-65 Lycoming, Susquehanna Conference
(beginning 2/1/1964)
1965 transfer to Susquehanna
Conference
1965-67 Centre Hall Grace
1967-73 associate, Carlisle Grace
1973-76 Altoona Fifth Avenue
1976-77 student
1977-82 Saxton Six Mile Run (ending
10/1/1982)
1982-88 Chambers Hill (beginning 10/1/1982)
1988 retired
GENSIB, MAHALA JOYCE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1992 ordained deacon, recommended by Lock Haven Covenant
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-90 Waterville
1990-94 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1994-00 Sugar Valley
2000-06 Williamsport High Street Wesley
(ending 1/31/2006)
2006-07 Reedsville Church Hill (beginning
2/1/2006)
2007-10 incapacity leave
GENTILMAN, JOSEPH S.
Born: 8-?-1940 married: Helen Irene Lamey
Died: 8-9-2021 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 257
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Loganton Albright
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 354
1983-90 Three Springs
1990-98 Milton Bethany
1998-10 Enola Emmanuel
2008-10 West
Fairview
GENTZLER, RICHARD HENRY JR.
Born: married: Marilyn _____
Died: obit:
1974 admitted on trial, recommended by Messiah York
1974 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-76 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC
1974-76 Crapo, Peninsula-Delaware Conference
1976-78 Emigsville
1978-79 on leave
1979-85 Balls Mills
1985-91 Pleasant Gap
1991-13 General Board of Discipleship
2013 retired
2015-23 director of Encore Ministry, Tennessee Conference
GEPHART, RYAN K.
Born: married: Misty _____
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Trinity Walnut Bottom
2004 provisional elder
2007 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2002-12 Port Trevorton
2012-23 Selinsgrove Christ
2023- Roaring Spring Trinity
GESCHWINDER, PETER FRANK
Born: married: Anne _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Warren NJ Mt. Horeb
1977 ordained deacon
1979 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1975-78 student, Garrett-Evangelical Seminary
1978-81 Washington NJ Star Parish
1981-82 Port Jervis NY Drew
1982-83 Artesian-Farwell SD
1983-84 Trout Run
1984-89 Mt. Pleasant Mills
1989-97 Watsontown (ending 9/15/1997)
1997-99 Gethsemane (beginning 9/15/1997)
1999-11 chaplain, River Woods
2011-14 Tunkhannock
2014-18 chaplain, River Woods
2018 retired
GIBSON, WILLIAM L.
Born: married: Rosemarie _____
Died: obit:
1995 license, recommended by Niles Valley
Interment:
Obit:
1995-97 Middle Ridge
1997-00 Twin Valley Parish
2000-03 New Millport
2003-06 Pennsdale Huntersville
2006 retired
2008-11 associate,
Milton St. Andrews
2012-13 Jerseytown
(beginning 1/1/2013)
2016-17 Evansville
Stone (beginning 12/12/2016)
GILBERT, BRADLEY J.
Born: married: Lynn _____
Died: obit:
1984 ordained, Church of the Nazarene
Interment:
Obit:
Church of the Nazarene
1992-93 York Violet Hill, Central
Pennsylvania Conference UMC
1997-98 York Haven, Central Pennsylvania
Conference UMC
1998 transfer to the Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
1998-07 York Haven
2007-12
Dover Bethany
2012-15 Mt. Pisgah Trinity (ending 2/15/2015)
2015-23 Middletown Ebenezer (beginning
2/15/2015)
GILCHRIST, DONALD R. JR.
Born: married: Michelle _____
Died: obit:
2016 license
Interment:
Obit:
2016-18 Chinchilla (beginning 5/1/2016)
2018-23 Lakeville
2018-19 Lake
Ariel
2023-24 Cortez (ending 7/24/2024)
2024 discontinued 7/24/2024
GINGERICH, MICHAEL DAVID
Born: married: Katherine _____
Died: obit:
1983 ordained deacon, recommended by Saginaw Community
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-84 Druck Valley
1984-93 Picture Rocks
1993-03 associate, Hershey First
2003-09 on leave
2009-10 staff, Cancer Recovery Foundation of
America (ending 1/1/2010)
2010-11 director, Foundation for Cancer
Research and Wellness (1/1/2010 4/1/2011)
2011-23 on leave (beginning 4/1/2011)
GINGERY, SUSAN A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2023- Altoona Broad Avenue - Lakemont
Note:
Susan A. Gingery swerved as a lay minister.
GIORDANP, DOROTHEA F.
Born: married: Guy Giordano
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Williamsport First
Interment:
Obit:
2013-18 Williamsport First (beginning 5/1/2013)
2018-23 unappointed
GIVLER, ELIZABETH H.
Born: married: Roy Givler
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Putnam City OK
2001 commissioned
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Oklahoma Conference
2000 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2000-04 Witmers
2004-07 Colonial Park [Cross Point] (ending
5/29/2007)
2007-25 on leave (beginning 5/29/2007)
GLADFELTER, ARTHUR EDGAR
Born: married: Sharon _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Glen Rock Immanuel
1972 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1972-74 Violet Hill
1964-81 Dover Otterbein
1981-99 Hughesville Christ
1981-95 Clarkstown
1999 retired
GLASCOW, MARJORIE ANNA MOTTER
Born: 10-31-1934 Lock haven PA married: Paul Herman Glascow
Died: 6-10-2012 Lockport NY obit: [1/8/1928 3/19/2004]
1975 license, recommended by Lock Haven East Main Street
1978 ordained deacon
1999 ordained elder
Interment: Rest Haven Memorial Park, Lock Haven PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 265
1976-78 Union Circuit
1978-88 Mill Hall
1988-90 on leave
1990-96 Mt. Victory
1996-05 Oval
2005 retired
Note:
Marjorie A. Glascow worked as a nurse before entering the ministry. Paul H. Glascow was the widower of a Mildred
K. Reber (1911-1960).
GLASS, ELIZABETH SHAFER
Born: married: Michael Glass
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Roaring Spring Trinity
1994 ordained deacon
1998 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-95 Bedford Valley
1995-98 Altoona Schum Memorial Pleasant
Valley
1998-01 Altoona Schum Memorial Jaggard
2001-02 Hartwood VA Hartwood-Grace
2002-05 Haw Branch NC
2005-09 Twenty-nine Palms CA
2009-10 program staff, California-Pacific
Conference
GOCHNAUR, MINDI E.
Born: married: Jason Gochnaur
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Altoona Second Avenue
2015 provisional elder
2017 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2013-17 Huntingdon First
2017-23 Enola Emmanuel
GODISSART, JOHN ALBERT
Born: married: Karen _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Philipsburg Trinity
1997 ordained deacon
2000 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-03 North Bend
2003-05 Renovo Area
2005-14 McConnellsburg
2014-23 Hollidaysburg First
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
GOETZ, SUE ANN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Waynesboro Faith
Interment:
Obit:
2007-10 Bellefonte Trinity
GOFF, NANCY L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2001 provisional elder, recommended by Mt. Nittany
2004 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-01 Canton
2001-05 Axemann Weaver
2005-08 Bellefonte New Hope [merged Axemann
Weaver]
2008-11 Middletown Wesley
2011-12 Lock Haven Covenant (ending
10/31/2012)
2012 retired (10/31/2012)
2013-16 Shermans
Dale Youngs (beginning 1/1/2013)
2016-18 Northern
Bedford
2018-23 Bedford
Forge
GONSMAN, CHERYL J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2018 license
Interment:
Obit:
2018-23 McKee
2023- Mines Royer
GOOD, SHERRY L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2003 license, recommended by Powell
Interment:
Obit:
2003-09 Covington
2009-14 Knoxville
2014 retired
2015-18 Towanda
GOODMAN, RUSSELL W.
Born: married: Joyce Davis
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Derry Street
Interment:
Obit:
2018-19 Harrisburg Riverside (ending 4/21/2019)
2019 Harrisburg The Journey (4/22/2019 6/30/2019)
2019 Harrisburg Derry Street (4/29/2019 6/30/2019)
2019 unappointed (7/1/2019 8/31/2019)
2019-20 Lemoyne Calvary (beginning 9/1/2019)
2020-23 unappointed
2024 discontinued (6/11/2024)
GORDON, JOAN L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Lock Haven Covenant
Interment:
Obit:
2007-08 Williamsport Grace
2008 retired
2008-17 Lamar
2008-15 Clintondale
(ending 5/1/2015)
2015-17 Mill
Hall (beginning 5/1/2015)
GORTON, RODGER J.
Born: 7-20-1939 Clearfield PA married: Patricia L. Johnston (10/15/1966)
Died: 9-11-2011 DuBois PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 262
1992 license, recommended by Clearfield West Side
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 295
1992-98 Clearfield Parish
1998-09 Clearfield Christ Mt. Joy
2009 retired
GOSHORN, DARWIN C.
Born: married: Deborah _____
Died: obit:
2003 license, recommended by Doylesburg
Interment:
Obit:
2003-14 Orangeville
2014 retired
2014-23 Amberson
GRANCHE, CARRIE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Friends in Faith [Sterling Greentown Hemlock Grove]
2021-23 Mt. Zion - Orange
GRAY, CECIL CONTEEN
Born: married: Sonya _____
Died: obit:
1987 ordained deacon
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1987-89 State College United Black Fellowship Church
1989-90 [serving in Eastern Pennsylvania Conference]
1990-91 student
1991-97 Temple University, Church and World Institute
1997 transfer to Baltimore-Washington Conference
1997-02 faculty, Gettysburg College
2002-20 Northwood-Appold
:
GRAYBILL, ROBERT ARNOLD
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
1975 ordained deacon, recommended by East Salem
1977 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-76 student, Methesco
1975-76 assistant
director of admissions, Methesco
1976-79 McElhattan Cooperative Parish
1979-92 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1992-06 New Cumberland Baughman Memorial
2006-11 Mexico Ebenezer
2009-11 East
Waterford Faith
2011-16 Middletown Evangelical
2016 retired
GREEN, M. EDWIN III
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2010-21 New Cumberland Baughman
2021-23 New Kingstown Trinity, Susquehanna Conference
2023 (disaffiliated?)
Note: Win Green served as a member of the Florida Conference
GREWE, JUDITH L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2015 license
Interment:
Obit:
2014-16 Dunmore (7/13/2014 11/7/2016)
2016-24 unappointed (beginning 11/7/2016)
2024 discontinued 9/23/2024
GROVE, ALISON W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2000 provisional elder, recommended by Salladasurg
2003 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2000-03 Sugar Creek Parish
2003-07 Millersburg Hebron
2004 on
leave 10/4/2004 11/1/2004
2007-10 Curwensville
2010-13 Hallam
2013-16 Friends in Faith [Sterling
Greentown Hemlock Grove]
2016-18 Hancock Emory
2018-22 Lock Haven Covenant
2018-21 Lock
Haven Faith (ending 12/12/2021)
2022-23 Waynesboro Faith
GROVES, KELLY A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Sterling
2022-23 Lake
Ariel Bethany
GRUBB, JAMES WOODWARD
Born: married: Donna _____
Died: obit:
1966 license, recommended by Liverpool
1968 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1965-68 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1967-68 youth director, Englewood OH
1968-76 Hummels Wharf
1976-88 Williamsport First
1988-92 superintendent, State College District
1992-01 Harrisburg Grace
2001 retired
2001-11 Middleburg (ending 12/31/2011)
GRUNDON, KENNETH B.
Born: married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
1977 ordained deacon, recommended by Hummelstown Trinity
1984 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-79 student, United Theological Seminary
of the Twin Cities
1979-81 ?
1981-83 St. Paul MN Olivet
1983-86 Pine Creek Circuit
1986-90 Mifflin Trinity
1990-01 Mount Union First
2001-02 chaplain, York Hospital
2002-15 Three Springs Parish
2015-18 New Hope Parish
2016-18 Greater
Broad Top
2018 retired
GUILLAUME, JASON PATRICK
Born: married: Beth Ann _____
Died: obit:
2000 provisional elder, recommended by Trout Run
2003 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1999-04 Ulster Milan
2004-09 Blossburg
2009-15 Tryone Wesley
2015-23 Yorkanna Christ
2023 disaffiliated
GUISE, TRISHA J.
Born: married: Matt Guise
Died: obit:
2013 license
Interment:
Obit:
2013-17 Fetterhoff Mt. Union
2017-23 York Springs
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Trisha J. Guise served as a local pastor.
GUMMO, CHARLES EDWARD
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
1988 license, recommended by Camp Hill
1990 ordained deacon
1994 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1987-90 student, Asbury Theological Seminary
in Wilmore KY
1990-97 Austin
1997-03 Harrisonville
2003 retired
GUNTER, CYNTHIA J.
Born: married: R. Kenneth Gunter
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Williamsport First
Interment:
Obit:
2007-08 associate, Unityville
2008-11 Duboistown
2011-17 Northumberland Trinity
2017-20 Freeburg Dhamokin Dam
2020-22 Center
2022-23 Catawissa First
2023-25 Reward Salem
2025 discontinued 6/30/2025
Note:
Cynthia Gunter is the wife of R. Kenneth Gunter.
GUNTER, R. KENNETH
Born: married: Margaret _____
Died: obit:
married2: Cynthia _____
license, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference obit2:
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-86 Coatesville Grtace
1986-87 on leave
1987 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1987-90 Lewisburg Hospital
1990-93 Harrisburg Derry Street
1993-97 Tower City Christ
1997-98 on leave
1998-99 Roxbury Behavioral Health Care, Lebanon PA
1999-01 Muncy Correctional Facility
2001-03 White Pine Centennial (ending 1/1/2003)
2003 on leave (Beginning 1/1/2003)
2003-10 located
2006-10 Unityville
2010-17 Sunbury Otterbein
2017 retired
Note:
R. Kenneth Gunter is the husband of Cynthia J. Gunter.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Montandon
2021-23 Dewart St. Johns
HAGY, MARK ANDREW
Born: married:
Nancy Ann _____
Died: obit:
1980 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1977-81 Lake Como Shehawken
1981 discontinued 1981, page 96
Troy Conference
1992 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1992-94 Mt. Nebo Mt. Oliver
1994-96 Oriole
1996-98 Scotland
1998-02 Roxbury
2002-06 New Cumberland Trinity
2006-09 Town Hill
2009 Jersey Shore Trinity (ending
10/28/2009)
2009 suspended 2010, page 51
Note: Mark A. Hagy is the son of Arthur Hagy of the Troy
Conference. Before being admitted on
trial he served as a supply and/or student local pastor.
HALDERMAN, JOHN EDWARD
Born: married: Sharonn Davis
Died: obit:
1966 license, recommended by Bellefonte Faith
1970 ordained deacon
1971 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1965-67 student, Salem College in Salem WV
1965-67 Club
Run WV
1967-71 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1967-69 Fort
Recovery Erastus OH
1969-71 New
Hope OH
1971-76 Woodland
1976-79 Freysville Zion Windsor Grace
1979-83 Williamsport Grace
1983-91 Juniata Parish
1991-95 Altoona Gethsemane
1995-97 Wellsboro
1997-00 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
2000-06 associate, Fishing Creek Salem
2006 retired
Note:
John Halderman id the husband of Sharonn Halderman
HALDERMAN, SHARONN ROSE DAVIS
Born: 6-18-1941 Wisemans Run WV married: John Halderman
Died: 5-24-2017 Hershey PA obit:
1975 license, recommended by Woodland Lake Street
1977 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 271
1975-76 associate, Woodland
1976-79 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1979-83 Williamsport Third Street
1982-83 Mill Creek
1983-91 Juniata Parish
1991-95 Altoona First
1995-98 superintendent, Wellsboro District
1998-03 superintendent, New Cumberland District
2003-07 Carlisle Grace
2007 retired
HALLER, MARCIA JEAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity
2002 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-00 Wiconisco Wesley Muir Grace
2000-03 Muir Grace
2003-09 Harrisburg Harris Street
2009-10 sabbatical leave
2010-12 on leave
2012 retired
HALL, PATRICIA A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license, recommended by Orbisonia
Interment:
Obit:
2022-23 Cito (beginning 9/1/2022)
HALVERSTADT, SUSAN L.
Born: married: Larry D. Cole
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 267
1993 license
1995 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Missouri West Conference
1993-95 Picture Rocks, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1994-95 Eagles Mere Federated
1995 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1995-97 Clarkstown
1997-01 on leave
2001-02 Wallis Run
2002-04 Airville McKendree
2004-07 Shippensburg Christ
2007-11 Tyrone Good Shepherd
2011-14 Elizabethville Trinity
2014 retired
2014-18 Warrensville/Heilman
2018-21 Faxon-Kenmar
Note:
Susan L. Halverstadt was the wife of Larry D. Cole. This surname is sometimes given as
HALVERSTADT-COLE.
HANLEY, PATRICIA E.
Born: married: Raymond Hanley
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Equinunk Union
Interment:
Obit:
2005-08 Union Dale (beginning9/2005)
2008-15 Lake Como
2015-23 unappointed
HANLON, RICHARD P.
Born: married: Erin _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Hollidaysburg First
2015 provisional elder
2018 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2015-20 Wellsboro
2020-22 Athens (ending 5/31/22)
2022-23 on leave (beginning 6/1/2022)
2022-25 Malone
Centenary, Upper New York Conference (beginning 2/26/2023)
HARBAUGH, LUKE T.
Born: married: Rebecca _____
Died: obit:
2019 license, recommended by York Zion
Interment:
Obit:
2019-23 Spry
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Luke T. Harbaugh served as a local pastor.
HARDIC, THERON R.
Born: married: Lisa _____
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Millville
Interment:
Obit:
2008-10 associate, Mill-Green
2010-15 McElhattan
2015-18 Altoona Juniata
2018-23 no appointment
HARMIC, THOMAS LEON
Born: married: Florence _____
Died: obit:
1995 license, recommended by Potosi Mt. Zion
Interment:
Obit:
1995-03 Summit Hill
2003-15 Liberty
2015 retired
2015-16 Mansfield
(beginning 9/8/20150
2017 New
Visions [Covington/Blossville] (6/12/17 7/16/17)
2017-18 Lawrenceville
(beginning 7/16/2017)
2020-23 Liberty
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Thomas L. Harmic served as a local pastor.
HARRISON, JANE A.
Born: married: Harry Harrison
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Shenberger Chapel
2004 provisional elder
2007 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-02 Harrisburg First Otterbein
2002-05 Adamsville Yoe
2005-10 Fawn Grove
2010-18 Lewisberry
2018-20 York Fourth
2020 retired
2021-22 Dallastown
Bethlehem (Ending 10/11/21)
Note:
Jane Harrison is the daughter of Charles Zimmerman.
HARROLD, TROY R.
Born: married: Faye _____
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Violet Hill
Interment:
Obit:
2008-10 Loganville
2010-16 Adamsville/Yoe
2016 retired
2017-18 Gatchelville/Crossroads
(beginning 10/1/2017)
2023 disaffiliated
HART, A. VANCE II
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2023- Pinecroft
Note:
A. Vance Hart served as a lay minister.
HARTENBACH, RALPH BERNARD
Born: married: Julie _____
Died: obit:
1977 license, recommended by Coudersport
1979 ordained deacon
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-78 student, Mansfield College in Mansfield OH
1978-81 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1981-85 Genesee Ulysses
1985-94 Catawissa First (ending 7/28/1994)
1994-95 on leave (beginning 7/28/1994)
1995-03 Buckhorn Rupert
2002-11 Buckhorn Bloomsburg Good Shepherd
2011-19 Berwick Bower Memorial
2018-19 Berwick St. Pauls
2019 retired
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/25/2023)
HARTMAN, MARIAN ELIZABETH
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1980 ordained deacon, recommended by Gettysburg
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1980-85 Doylesburg
1985-93 Hanover Grace
1993-03 McVeytown
2003-06 Lemont Mt. Nittany (ending 1/31/2006)
2006-07 on leave (beginning 2/1/2006)
2007-11 Wellsboro
2011-13 Trucksville (ending 11/1/2013)
2013-19 superintendent, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
District (beginning 11/1/2013)
2019 retired
HARTZELL, P. FRANKLIN JR.
Born: married: Sandra _____
Died: obit:
1997 license, recommended by Williamsport St. Johns
Interment:
Obit:
1997-99 associate, Unityville
1999-23 Rote Salona
HARVEY, DEBORAH H. (SCHOENHARR)
Born: married: Ronald Glenn Harvey (2000)
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024,340
2017 license, recommended by Benton
Interment:
Obit:
2017-22 Columbia circuit
2022 retired
Note:
Ronald Harvey was the widower of Charlene Trauth Harvey (1945-1998), whom he
married in 1982.
HARVEY-NELSON, KATHY S.
Born: married: Hillary Nelson
Died: obit:
2003 provisional elder, recommended by York Bethlehem
2006 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2003-08 Glen Rock Immanuel (ending 10/6/2008)
2008-13 staff, Lancaster Theological Seminary
(10/6/2008 9/6/2013)
2013-18 Martinsville Salem
2018-21 director. Center for Spiritual
Formation
2021 retired
HASKINS, DENISE M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Harrisburg Calvary
2017 provisional elder
2020 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2013-16 Zion Stone (beginning 8/15/2013)
2016-18 Mansfield
2018-20 Mifflintown Aldersgate
2020-22 Clearfield West Side
2022-23 McConnellsburg
2024-25 on leave
HASSINGER, KENNETH EUGENE
Born: married:
Died:
obit:
1973 admitted on trial, recommended by Middleburg
Salem
1977 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1973-74 associate, Harrisburg Grace
1974-75 Mainesburg
1975-77 on leave
1977 located
2012 retired
HASTINGS, IAN R.
Born: married: Allison _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Trucksville
Interment:
Obit:
2014-22 associate, Trucksville parish (9/15/2014 2/28/2022)
2022-24 unappointed (beginning 3/1/2022)
2024 discontinued 12/12/2024
HATTER, BRADLEY D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Harrisburg St. Matks
Interment:
Obit:
2009-10 associate, Millersburg Grace
HAUPT, JEROME W. III
Born: 1940 married: Barbara _____
Died: 2011 obit:
1960 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Shamokin First
1971 ordained deacon
1999 ordained elder
Interment: Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington PA
Obit: Susquehanna 2011, 398
1963-64 Klinefeltersville
1964-65 assistant, Bellgrove Circuit
1965-70 Catawissa Circuit
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference by boundary change
1970-74 Catawissa Circuit
1974-91 Berwick Calvary
1991-01 Danville St. Pauls Emmanuel
2001-10 chaplain, River Woods
HAVRILLA, DANIEL J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license, recommended by Williamsport First
Interment:
Obit:
2019-23 Duboistown Oval
2023-24 Lehman-Idetown / Maple Grove (ending
12/31/2024)
2024 discontinued 12/31/2024
HAWKINS, TINA
Born: married: Herbert Hawkins
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Houtzdale
Interment:
Obit:
2006-09 Summit Hill
2009-18 West Branch
2018-23 Tyrone Wesley
2019-23 Tyrone
Christ (beginning 1/1/2019)
2024 discontinued (12/18/2023)
HEATWOLE, TANYA A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Grantville St. Johns
Interment:
Obit:
2007-10 Claysburg
HEBERLIG, WAYNE FRANK
Born: married: Christine _____
Died: obit:
1972 license, recommended by Shippensburg Messiah
1972 ordained deacon
1975 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1971-73 student, Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg PA
1973-87 State Line
1987-17 Mt. Wolf
2017 retired
2017-23 York
Bethany
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
HEDGED, SUSAN L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Chambersburg First
Interment:
Obit:
2008-10 Valley UM Parish
HEIKES, JENNIFER CARLYE
Born: married: Harry W. Heikes
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 357
2003 license, recommended by Mifflintown Aldersgate
Interment:
Obit:
2003-10 Greater Shawville Parish
2010-17 Osceola Mills
2016-17 Sandy Ridge
2017-20 Pine Grove McAlisterville
2020 retired
2020-21 Port Royal Matamoras (beginning 10/1/2020)
HEINRICH, RICHARD FRANKLIN
Born: 6-15-1937 Williamstown NJ married: Pat _____
Died: 6-30-1998 Hershey PA obit:
1972 license, recommended by Nordmont St. Pauls
1975 ordained
Interment: Cherry Grove Cemetery, Nordmont PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 432
1972-81 Dushore Laporte
1981-86 Allenport
1986-98 Buffalo Run
HEISER, THERESA M.
Born: married: Brian Heiser
Died: obit:
2016 license, recommended by Centre Hall Grace
Interment:
Obit:
2016-23 Penns Valley
HEISLEY-CATO, DEBORAH J.
Born: married: Michael S. Moul
Died: obit:
married2: Randall Cato
1976 license, recomd by Marysville Bethany obit2:
1977 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-80 Enders Powells Valley
1980-84 associate, New Cumberland Baughman Memorial
1984 transferred to North Central New
York Conference
1984-88 Harrisville Natural Bridge
1988-89 on leave
1989-90 associate, Carlisle Grace in the
Central Pennsylvanian Conference
1990 transferred to Central
Pennsylvania Conference
1990-93 associate, Carlisle Grace
1991-92 on
leave (beginning 10/16/1991 and ending 1/15/1992)
1993-03 Walnut Bottom Trinity
2003-04 sabbatical leave
2004-12 superintendent, Harrisburg District
2012-20 Fishing Creek Salem
2020 retired
HEMKER, SANDRA R.
Born: married: A1lan Hemker
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Whitneyville
Interment:
Obit:
2012-16 Elkland
2016-20 Whitneyville
2020 retired
2020-21 Mt. Pleasant
HENDERSON, DONALD FRANKLIN
Born: married: Mary Lee _____
Died: obit:
1990 license, recommended by Quincy
Interment:
Obit:
1990-99 Breezewood
1999-09 Trough Creek Valley
2009 retired
HENRY, ROBERT F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Clearfield Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
2005-13 chaplain, Houtzdale State
Correctional Institution
2013-14 unappointed
2014-15 Clearfield Trinity (beginning
6/14/2015)
2015-19 Greater Shawville Parish
2019 retired
2019-23 Greater
Shawville Parish
HEPLER, WAYNE LEROY
Born: 9-20-1943 Williamsport PA married: Connie L. Beach
Died: 2-23-2013 Montoursville PA obit:
1986 license, recommended by Williamsport St. Johns
1993 ordained deacon
1999 ordained elder
Interment: State Road Cemetery, Cogan Station PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 266
1986-95 Linden (ending 9/30/1995)
1995-05 Lycoming Parish (beginning 10/1/1995)
2005 retired
2006-13 Williamsport
Heshbon Park
HERBST, JEFFREY B.
Born: married: Ginger Klinedinst
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by York Asbury
Interment:
Obit:
2009-13 associate, York Asbury
HERMAN, KARL ROBERT
Born: married: Dustie _____
Died: obit:
1988 ordained deacon, recommended by Oriole
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-90 Sugar Valley
1990-92 Unityville
1992-95 New Albany New Era
1995-00 Valleys Parish (Spring Run)
2000-03 Pine Grove - McAlisterville
2003-10 Walnut Bottom Trinity
2010-17 Mt. Gilead
2017-20 South Franklin
2020-21 Leesburg
2021-23 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
HERROLD, JUDI A. DUNKLEBERGER
Born: married: Chad Herrold
Died: obit:
1993 ordained deacon, recommended by Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1997 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1995-98 Catawissa First
1998-08 Felton
2008-17 Lewisburg St. Pauls
2017-22 Newburg
2022-23 Shepherdstown
HERZBERG, KURT V.
Born: married: Delores _____
Died: obit:
2010 license
Interment:
Obit:
2010-18 Trinity Parish (Bethel Dellville
Salem)
2018-23 Dover New Creation
HESCOX, MITCHELL CLAYTON
Born: married: Vena _____
Died: obit:
1994 ordained deacon, recommended by Red Lion St. Pauls Chapel
1998 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-09 Shrewsbury
2009 on leave (ending 8/1/2009)
2009-23 CEO, Evangelical Environmental Network (Beginning 8/1/2009)
HEWLETT, MIRA A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2006 provisional elder, recommended by Bloomsburg Wesley
2009 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2006-10 associate, Carlisle Allison
2010-12 chaplain, Dickinson College
2012-13 Carlisle First
2013-23 associate, Carlisle
HIBBS, RALPH M.
Born: 1-19-1943 married: Audrey Mae Smith
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 272
1965 license, recommended by Richfield
1968 ordained deacon
1971 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1966-70 Williamsport Eagle Charge (beginning 11/1966)
1970-72 New Oxford
1972-74 York St. Pauls (ending 10/1/1974)
1974-82 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd (beginning 10/1/1974)
1982-99 White Deer
1999-04 Hughesville Christ
2004 retired
2004-09 Sunbury Albright
HICKOK, FRED EARL
Born: married: Darlene _____
Died: obit:
1979 license, recommended by Williamsport Thirs Street
1980 ordained deacon
1984 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-81 Wesley Theological Seminary
1979-81 Bishopville, Peninsula Conference
1981-83 Catawissa Parish
1983-87 Bald Eagle Parish
1987-97 Rebersburg
1997-01 Wellsboro
2001-04 Nescopeck Wesley Albright
2004-20 Huntingdon 15th Street Donation
2020 retired
2020-23 Altoona East End Jaggard First
Note:
Fred E. Hickock is the son of Fred Clyde Hickok of the Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Church.
HICKS, DANIEL HOWARD
Born: married: Tammie _____
Died: obit:
license, Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
1990 ordained deacon
1992 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1990 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the United Methodist Church
1990-23 Buffalo Valley
2023 disaffiliated
HILDEBRAND, DONNA L.
Born: married: Robert Hildebrand
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Dallastown Bethlehem
Interment:
Obit:
2013-16 Guldens Salem
2016-20 Chestnut Grove
2020-23 Mt. Holly Springs (ending 1/1/2023)
2023 retired (1/1/2023)
2023- Mount Holly Springs (beginning 1/1/2023)
HILL, MICHAEL A.
Born: married: Patricia _____
Died: obit:
2003 license, recommended by Hughesville Bethany
Interment:
Obit:
2003-07 New Millport
2007-22 Elimsport
2022-23 Farragut - Fairfield
HILLER, CHARLES DONALD
Born: 7-6-1947 married: Jane Warren
Died: 2-12-2019 Summerdale PA obit:
1974 license, recommended by Berwick First
1977 ordained deacon
1979 ordained elder
Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 342
1971 Columbia Circuit (summer)
1974-76 Hendrickson Mooresburg
1976-79 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1979-86 associate, Mechanicsburg First
1986-91 Saginaw Starview
1991-99 Harrisburg St. Marks
1999-11 Summerdale
2011 retired
HIPPENSTEEL, DALE
Born: married: Janet _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by New Kingstown Trinity
1986 ordained deacon
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-89 Milroy
1989-93 Fairbrook
1993-02 Lewistown Grace
2002-05 York Aldersgate (ending 6/1/2005)
2005-09 on leave (beginning 6/1/2005)
2009-19 Milton St. Andrews
2019 retired
HIXON, STEPHANIE ANNA
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Chambersburg St. Paul
1986 ordained deacon
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-84 Christian education and music, Chambersburg St. Paul
1984-86 student, Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary
1985-86 Harpers Ferry WV St. Johns Lutheran
1986-89 Quincy
1989-91 associate, Lewistown First
1991-03 Commission on Status and Role of Women, GCOM
2003-04 sabbatical leave
2004-08 on leave
2008-23 executive director, JustPeace
HOCK, BRENDAN L.
Born: married: Meagan _____
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Plainfield IN
2012 provisional elder
2014 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2009-15 associate, Hanover First
2015-19 Red Lion Chapel
2019-23 Halifax
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
HOCKER, SCOTT A.
Born: married: Lisa _____
Died: obit:
2003 license, recommended by Carlisle Mt. Zion
Interment:
Obit:
2003-06 Riverpoint (Wormleysburg and West Fairview)
2006-16 Carlisle Good Shepherd Community (ending 11/30/2015)
2016 discontinued, page 163
Note: As of 2022 Rev. Scott Hocker is still conducting
funerals in the Carlisle area, affiliation unknown.
HOFFMAN, RONALD CLARENCE
Born: married: Lynette
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Williamstown
1979 ordained deacon
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-80 Manada Hill Harrisburg St. Pauls
(ending 2/1/1980)
1980-82 Manor Hill (beginning 2/1/1980)
1982-89 Altoona Llyswen
1989-98 Harrisburg Stevens Emmanuel
1996-98 Rutherford
Christ
1998-99 Lewistown First
1999-07 Mechanicsburg Youngs
2007-15 Berwick First
2015 retired
HOLLAND, JEFFREY L.
Born: married: Rebecca L. Torres
Died: obit:
2021 license, recommended by Altoona Christ Community
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Bald Eagle Grazierville (beginning
11/15/2021)
2023- Daleville Maple Lake
Note:
Jeffrey L. Holland is married to Rebecca L. Holland.
HOLLAND, REBECCA L.
Born: married: Jeffrey Holland
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Ridge Street
2016 provisional elder
2018 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2014-23 Altoona Christ Community
2019-23 Llyswen
2023- Hawley
HOLLISTER, HAROLD LEWIS
Born: 7-22-1940 Hollisterville PA married: Ruth _____
Died: 8-13-2021 Waynesboro PA obit:
1962 license, recommended by Elmdale on Wayne Circuit
1967 ordained elder, Eastern Conference
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 358
1962-67 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1963-64 youth director, Dayton OH Sulpher Grove EUB
1964-65 Fremont OH Trinity
1965-66 Castine Yankeetown
1966-67 Covenant Parish
1967-69 Highville
1969-70 associate, Halifax Area Parish
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-73 Enders Powells Valley
1973-81 Airville
1981-87 Dellville
1987-91 Chestnut Grove
1991-98 Sunbury Catawissa Avenue
1998-03 State Line
2003 retired
2007-11 West
Antietam
2013-14 Conococheague
(ending 9/1/2013)
2014-15 Chambersburg
St. Johns (ending 8/17/2014)
Note:
Harold E. Hollister is the husband of Ruth Hollister and the father of James H.
Hollister.
HOLLISTER, JAMES H.
Born: married: Sondra _____
Died: obit:
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Dellville
1987 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-92 Hustontown
1992-94 ?, Baltimore Conference
1994-99 on leave
1999-03 associate, Hanover First
2003-09 on leave
2009-15 Towanda
2015-20 Gethsemane
2020-23 Countryside Community
Note: James H. Hollister is the son of Harold E. Hollister and Ruth Hollister.
HOLLISTER, RUTH
Born: married: Harold L. Hollister
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 358
1998 license, recommended by Catawissa Sunbury
Interment:
Obit:
1998-07 Quincy
2007-11 West Antietam
2011 retired
2016-19 State Line (beginning 3/2/2016)
2021-23 State Line
Note:
Ruth Hollister is the wife of Harold L. Hollister and the mother of James H.
Hollister.
HOLLOPETER, JASON CHARLES
Born: 9-23-1943 married: Donna Kingsbury
Died: obit:
1966 license, recommended by Liberty First
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Jason C. Hollopeter is the son of Jason P. Hollopeter
of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.
HOLZ, BETH R.
Born: married: Michael Holz
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Bethlehem Stonepile
Interment:
Obit:
2009-14 Glen Rock (ending 1/1/2014)
2014-21 Peach Bottom (beginning 1/1/2014)
2021-23 Brogue Bethel
HOPKINS, JOSEPH S.
Born: married: Kacie _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Marysville Wesley
2017 provisional elder
2019 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2015-20 Avis
2020-21 Curwensville
2021-23 on leave
HORNEYS, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1976-77 Warfordsburg
Note:
John Horneys served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown. This may
be John Warren Horneys (1956-2009), burird in Shippensburg PA.
HORST, ALBERT ROY
Born: married: Peggy _____
Died: obit:
1980 ordained deacon, recommended by Riverside St. Peters
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1980-81 student, Garrett-Evangelical Seminary
1981-83 Burnt Cabins
1983-90 Jersey Shore First
1990-95 Craley New Bridgeville
1995-99 associate, Red Lion Bethany
1999-04 York Messiah
2004-18 East Prospect Zion
2018 retired
2018-23 Adamsville
Yoe
Note:
Albert R. Horst is the father of Rachel L. Horst.
HORST, RACHEL L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by East Prospect Zion
2012 provisional elder
2014 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2011-15 West Antietam
2015-18 Three Springs Parish
2018-23 Yeagertown
2020-25 on leave (beginning 12/1/2020)
Note:
Rachel L. Horst is the daughter of Albert R. Horst.
HOSIER, LENORE C.
Born: married: Robert Hosier
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Yorkanna Christ
2006 provisional elder
2009 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2004-06 associate, Yorkanna Christ (beginning
1/1/2004)
2006-11 associate, Chambersburg St. Pauls
2011-13 GBGM VIM New Hope Methodist Church,
Freeport, The Bahamas (ending 6/17/2013)
2013-14 Red Lion St. Pauls (beginning
6/17/2013)
2014-15 GMGB VIM Cpke & Ascension
Methodist Churches, Nassau, The Bahamas (ending 1/31/2015)
2015 Meshoppen (2/1/2015 6/30/2015)
2015-2018 Liberty
2018-22 Williamsport St. Johns-Newberry
(ending 2/27/2022)
2022-23 chaplain, SCI (beginning 2/28/2022)
HOUCK, JAMES ARDELL JR.
Born: married: Angela _____
Died: obit:
1999 ordained deacon, recommended by Hanover First
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-01 Brogue Bethel
2001-02 Harrisburg Harris Street
2002-05 Mechanicsburg Hope
2005-19 faculty, Neumann College
2007-12 Limeville,
Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
2019 retired
HOUSE, JAMES CHARLES
Born: married: Angela _____
Died: obit:
1991 ordained deacon, recommended by Rockville
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-90 Newton Hamilton
1990-93 Windsor Grace
1993-96 Vira
1996-98 West Antietam
1998-05 Grover
2005-07 Tri-County Parish (ending 8/1/2007)
2007-13 Red Lion Zion (beginning 8/1/2007)
2013-20 Altoona Broad Avenue
2013-18 Altoona
Mardorf
2017-20 Altoona
Simpson (beginning 1/1/20180
2018-20 Altoona
Lakemont
2020-23 Beach Lake
2023- Tyrone Wesley Christ
Note
James C. House is the son of Jay W. House of the Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Church.
HOUSER, CHERYL ANN
Born:3-7-1955 Bellefonte PA married: [single]
Died: 12-7-2024 State College PA obit:
license, recommended by Valley View
1994 ordained deacon
1997 ordained elder
Interment: Meyer Cemetery, Buffalo Run PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 340
1993-96 Claysburg
1996-04 Morrisdale Palestine
2004-06 Altoona Schum Llyswen
2006-11 Wellsville
2011-15 Cumberland Valley
2015-19 Dushore Laporte
2019 retired
HOVER, SCOTT R.
Born: married: Laurie _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Hershey First
Interment:
Obit:
2012-22 Stoverdale
2022-23 Union
Deposit
HOWELL, TROY THOMAS
Born: married: Donna _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity
1996 ordained deacon
2000 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-01 Chestnut Grove
2001-07 Shippensburg Messiah (ending
5/1/2007)
2007-08 on leave (beginning 5/1/2007)
2008-18 Mechanicsburg Aldersgate
2018-20 superintendent, Williamsport District
2020-21 Hershey First
2021 retired
2023 Shepherdstown
(2/6/23 4/8/23)
HUBNER, DAVID W.
Born: 7-29-1947 Chicago IL married: Ellen _____
Died: 3-16-2006 Watsontown PA obit:
married2: Sandra _____
1973 ordained deacon obit2:
1988 ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
United Church of Christ
1973-75 Gowen City St. Pauls
Chaplain, Williamsport Hospital
1986 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference United Methodist
1986-95 Selinsgrove Christ (ending 4/1/1995)
1990-95 Freeburg
1995-96 on leave (4/1/1995 3/26/1996)
1996 withdrew 3/26/1996
HUGHES, HEATHER A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Williamsport First
2008 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2006-10 Rouzerville
Note:
Heather A. Hughes is the daughter of Richard A. Hughes
HUGHES, JANICE F.
Born: married: Kevin Hughes
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Shippensburg Messiah
2013 provisional elder
2015 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2011-12 Carlisle Grace (beginning 1/1/2012)
2012-18 Middlesex
2018-23 Mechanicsburg Aldersgate
2021-22 on leave (befinninf 5/1/2021)
Note: Kevin Hughes is also a clergy member of the conference.
HUGHES, KEVIN E.
Born: married: Janice _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Hillside, Western Pennsylvania Conference
1978 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1980-85 Gaines Galeton
1985-94 Uriah
1992-01 Lykens
2001-07 Steelton Centenary
2007-13 Shippensburg Messiah
2013-18 Mechanicsburg Mt. Olivet
2013-16 Mechanicsburg
Wesley
2016-18 Harrisburg
St. Marks
2018 retired
2018-20 Marysville
Wesley (beginning 11/12/2018)
2021-23 Cumberland
Hopewell
Note:
Janice Hughes is also a clergy member of the conference.
HUGHES, RANDY S.
Born: married: Tracie _____
Died: obit:
1999 license, recommended by Center, Osceola Mills charge
Interment:
Obit:
2001-07 West Decatur
2007-15 Jacobus
2015- Lewistown First
2022-23 Burnham
Freed Avenue (beginning 2/13/2022)
HUGHES, RICHARD ALLAN.
Born: 7-30-1941 Batavia NY married: Diane _____
Died: 3-27-2024 Williamsport PA obit:
1959 license
1964 ordained deacon
1968 ordained elder
Interment: Twin Hills Memorial Park, Montoursville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 341
North Indiana Conference
1981 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1981-07 faculty, Lycoming College
2007 retired
Note:
Richard A. Hughes is the son William E. Hughes (1915-1989) of the North Indiana
Conference and the father of Heather A. Hughes.
HUGHES, TERRY L.
Born: married: Theresa _____
Died: obit:
2000 license
Interment:
Obit:
2000-01 Niles Valley
2001-06 Phelps Chapel
2001-02 Pine Creek
2006-14 Five Mountain Charge
2014-16 Ft. Loudon Edenville
2016-22 Springville
2022 retired
HULL, MARK A.
Born: 7-12-1971 Muncy PA married:
Died: 11-4-2021 obit:
married2: Jenny R. Chapman (5/24/2008)
2020 ordained, nacministers.org obit
Interment: Green Lawn Memorial Park, Montgomery
Obit:
2019-21 Montgomery Maple Hill
Note: Mark A. Hull worked for Great Dane Trailers. He received ordination from the National Association of Christian Ministers and served in the Susquehanna Conference as a supply pastor.
HULSEY, DEBORAH H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2018 license
Interment:
Obit:
2017-23 Longstown (beginning 5/15/2017)
HULSLANDER, ALLEN F.
Born: married: Barbara Joy _____
Died: obit:
License, recommended by Canton Ecumenical Parish
1987 ordained deacon
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-94 Millerton Daggett
1994-03 Towanda First
2003-09 East Salem Otterbein
2009-14 Lawrenceville
2014 retired
2015-17 Turkey Valley (4/8/2015 4/30/2017)
Note: Allen F. Hulslander is the husband of B. Joy Hulslander and father of Judith P. Hulslander.
HULSLANDER, BARBARA JOY
Born: married: Allen Hulslander
Died: obit:
1995 license
2002 provisional elder
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1995-03 Liberty
2003-09 Pine Grove McAlisterville
2009-11 Mansfield
2011 retired
Note:
B. Joy Hulslander is the wife of Allen F. Hulslander and mother of Judith P.
Hulslander.
HULSLANDER, JUDITH PACKARD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Millerton
1997 ordained deacon
2001 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-00 Millheim
2000-03 Linden
2003-05 Altoona Greenwood
2005-07 Berwick First
2007-14 Center Hall
2014 retired
Note:
Judith P. Hulslander is the daughter of Allen F. Hulslander and B. Joy
Hulslander.
HUMMEL, DENNIS ALVIN
Born: married: Patricia _____
Died: obit:
1967 license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
1970 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1965-69 student, Westmar College in LeMars IA
1967 Leistown Grace (summer)
1967-68 Pomeroy IA
1968-69 Merrill IA Stanton
1969-71 student, Wesley Theological Seminary
in Washington DC
1971-73 Loganville (beginning 10/1973)
1973-77 Williamsport Balls Mills Rose
Valley
1977-87 Charlton (ending 11/1/1987)
1987-88 on leave (beginning 11/1/1987)
1988-96 Halifax
1996-98 Linglestown
1998-01 Dillsburg Calvary
2001-19 Yorkshire
2019 retired
HUMMEL, LARRY B.
Born: 1937 married:
Died: 9-4-2015 Brooksville FL obit:
Interment:
Obit:
? Hetlerville, Espy, Lime Ridge, Almedia
Note: Larry B. Hummel left the United Methodist denomination
to serve Shiloh Church in Almedia.
HUNSBERGER, J. MARCO
Born: c1942 married: Beverly _____
Died: 2-17-2016 Williamsport PA obit:
1966 license, recommended by Ridgewood NY St. Johns
1969 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 264
1966-68 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1968-88 Halifax
1988-89 Pine Grove McAlisterville
1989-07 campus minister, Lycoming College
2007 retired
Note:
J. Marco Hunsberger is the grandson of Arthur R. Hunsberger (1894-1973) of the
Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and the son of Jacob Marco Hunsberger of the
New York Conference. Robert R.
Hunsberger (1909-1966) of the Eastern Conference is a brother to J. Marcos
grandfather Arthur.
HUNTER, PHYLLIS ARLENE (McKinney)
Born:11-?-1946 married: William Gray Hunter
Died: 7-23-2018 Altoona PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 336
1993 license, recommended by Williamsport St. Johns
2004 admitted to associate membership
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 343
1992-99 Ralston
1999-01 Newton Hamilton
2001-03 Forksville
2003-09 Wolfsburg
2009-11 Cumberland Charge [Newburg Otterbein
Hopewell]
2011-13 Martinsville
2013 retired
2013-15 Thompson
/ East Ararat
HURLEY, DONALD N.
Born: married: Katherine _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Petersburg
1987 ordained deacon
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-85 Centre Line
1985-89 Leesburg
1989-93 Emigsville (beginning 8/1/1989)
1993-98 Mackeyville
1998-02 Curwensville
2002-19 Riverside St. Peters
2019 retired
HUTCHINS, PRESTON L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2023- Bald Eagle - Grazierville
Note:
Preston L. Hutchins served as a retired member from another conference.
ILE, JOHN ANDREW JR.
Born: 2-2-1936 Chambersburg PA married: Anna Mae Peiper
Died: 5-6-2025 Chambersburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 165
1969 license, recommended by Newburg Otterbein
1973 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 341
1969-83 Marion First (ending 4/15/1983)
1983-92 Barnitz (beginning 4/15/1983)
1992-00 Shiremanstown
2000 retired
INCH, BARBARA A.
Born: married: Clair Inch
Died: obit:
1995 license, recommended by Cocolamus Browns
Interment:
Obit:
1999-06 Mexico Ebenezer
2006 retired
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1979license
Interment:
Obit:
1979-80 Spring Run
1980-82 Rouzerville
1982 on leave
2009 re-appears as honorable location
Note:
Robert Eugene Ingraham appears to have become a practicing attorney in Hershey
PA.
IRWIN, GAY L.
Born: married: Luther Rider (divorced)
Died: obit:
2007 license
Interment:
Obit:
2007-15 Mifflin
2013-15 Ebenezer Mexico
2015-17 Lake Winola
2017 retired
2017-19 Liverpool
2021-24 Mount Union First
2024 discontinued (6/30/2024)
Note: From 2007 to 2010, this person was known as Gay L. Rider.
JACKSON, ELIZABETH G.
Born: married: Gregory Jackson
Died: obit:
2018 provisional elder, recommended by Good Shepherd
2022 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2018-21 New Visions Parish [Blossburg First Covington]
2021-23 Lycoming Parish [Maple Springs Quiggleville State Road]
JACOB, ELIZABETH M.
Born: married: Wesley M. Jacob
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2023- Altoona Christ Community Llyswen
Note:
Elizabeth M. Jacob is married to Wesley M. Jacob
JACOB, WESLEY M.
Born: married: Elizabeth M. _____
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2023- Hollidaysburg First
Note:
Wesley M. Jacob is listed as an elder from another conference. He is married to R;izabeth M. Jacob.
JACOBS, JAMES L.
Born: married: Mary _____
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Sprucetown
Interment:
Obit:
2011-22 Mountain View [Bakers Lawvers]
2015-22 West
Snyder [Beavertown McClure First St. Peters]
2022 retired
2022-23 Greater
Buffalo Run Valley (beginning 10/1/2022)
JACOBS, ROBERT RAY
Born: 4-30-1947 Shippensburg PA married: Cathy A. Hoffman
Died: 1-8-2023 obit:
2008 license
Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 359
2008-11 Felton
2011 retired
Note:
Robert R. Jacobs retired as a mechanical engineer before entering the ministry.
JACOBS, THOMAS HAINES
Born: married: Eilene _____
Died: obit:
1967 license, recommended by Bellefonte Faith
1970 ordained deacon
1971 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1967-68 student, Albright College in Reading PA
1968-71 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1969-71 minister
to youth, Dayton OH Sulphur Grove (beginning 4/1969)
1971-77 associate, Hummelstown Trinity
1977-86 Jersey Shore Trinity
1977-82 Jersey
Shore Epworth
1986-95 Clearfield Trinity
1995-00 Williamsport Pine Street
2000-07 State College St. Pauls
2007-12 Hanover First
2012 retired
JAMISON, SUSAN D.
Born: married: Donald Rodney Slaybaugh
Died: obit: [divorced]
married2: Kevin Witt
obit2:
license, recommended by Indiana PA Grace
1982 ordained deacon, Western Pennsylvania Conference
1987 ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Western Pennsylvania
Conference
1984 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1984-85 not assigned
1985-87 Elkland
1987-89 on leave
1989-90 Parish and Community Workers,
Cowenesque Valley
1990-94 on leave
1994-97 Shamokin Dam
1997-05 Susquehanna Valley
2005-06 on leave
2006-21 director of community relations,
Albright Care Services (ending 12/31/2021)
2021-23 Lewisburg Beaver Memorial (beginning
1/1/2022)
Note:
Susan D. Jamison was married to Donald R. Slaybaugh.
JAYNE, ALGERNON BREWSTER [BRUCE] JR
Born: 9-12-1926 Long Island NY married: Joan E. Haslett
Died: 1-14-2011 Harrisburg PA obit:
1963 license,
recommended by Remsenburg NY Presbyterian
1966 ordained,
Presbyterian Church
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 400
1963-64 Iron River Brule WI
1964-67 Fountain Green IL
1967-72 Spencer NY Federated, Wyoming
Conference
1972 transfer to Wyoming Conference
of the United Methodist Church
1972-76 Camptown
1976-78 Afton
1978-83 Worcester
1983 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1983-87 Dushore Laporte
1987-89 Mon Alto Otterbein
1989-93 Wiconisco Calvary
1993-95 Steelton Grace
1995 retired
1998-02 Manada
Hill (beginning 5/1/1998)
2002-03 Harrisburg
Otterbein
JENSEN, BARBARA J.
Born: married: J. Paul Jensen
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Cassville
Interment:
Obit:
2018 Trough Creek Valley (ending 8/31/2018)
2018-23 Bellwood (beginning 9/1/2018)
2018-23 Kairos Prison Ministry
2021-23 Pinecroft
2024 discontinued (3/19/2024)
Note: J. Paul Jensen is also a clergy member of the
conference.
JENSEN, J. PAUL
Born: married: Barbara J. _____
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Cassville
Interment:
Obit:
2018 Trough Creek Valley (ending 8/31/2018)
2018-23 Bellwood (beginning 9/1/2018)
2018-23 Kairos Prison Ministry
2021-23 Pinecroft
2024 discontinued (3/19/2024)
Note: Barbara J. Jensen is also a clergy member of the
conference.
JOHNSON, GREGORY S.
Born: married: Sheri _____
Died: obit:
1999 license, recommended by Shenbergers Chapel
2004 provisional elder
2008 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1999-03 Williamsport Newberry
2003-08 Duboistown
2003-04 Williamsport
Newberry
2004-08 Williamsport
Sojourner Truth
2008-11 associate, York Zion
2011-14 Altoona Second Avenue
2014-17 on leave
2014-15 Mt.
Pisgah Trinity (beginning 2/15/1015)
2017 retired
2024 withdrawn
(5/23/2024)
JOHNSON, MARK D.
Born: married: Lynne _____
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Axemann
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2004-05 Axemann Weaver (ending 9/1/2004)
2005-07 Bellefonte Faith (ending 1/1/2007)
2007-08 Bellefonte New Hope (beginning
1/1/2007 and ending 1/13/2008)
2008-15 Wallaceton (beginning 1/13/2008)
2011-15 West
Decatur
2015-23 Faith Chapel
JOHNSTON, TAYLOR L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-22 Trough Creek (ending 2/1/2022)
2023-24 Everett Breezewood (ending 10/16/2024)
2024 discontinued 10/16/2024
JONES, BOBBY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2018-21 Mt. Olivet (beginning 4/1/2019)
2018-19 St. Marks (beginning 4/1/2019)
2019-21 Summerdale
2021-23 Summerdale
JONES, EMLYN HARRIS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1955 license, recommended by Hershey First
1959 ordained elder, Grace Brethren Church
Interment:
Obit:
1955-57 student, Grace Theological Seminary in Indianapolis IN
1957-61 Bell CA
1961-65 San Bernardino CA
1965-85 chaplain, US Army
1986-86 ?
1986 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the United Methodist Church
1986-98 Shopes Stoverdale
1998 retired
JONES, JAY EVAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Julian Faith
1987 ordained deacon
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1987-88 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1988-91 Shawville
1991-95 associate, Lewistown First
1995-04 Bald Eagle
2004-08 Clearfield Westside
2008-12 Bloomsburg Wesley
2012-18 Williamsport St. Johns Newberry
2018-23 Trucksville
JONES, JENNIFER S.
Born: married: Gary Jones
Died: obit:
2019 license, recommended by Ralston
Interment:
Obit:
2019-25 Tri County Parish [Canton, East Canton, Grover St. Johns, Shunk, Ward]
2025 discontinued
1/1/2025
JONES, PEGGY ANN
Born: married: Chris Jones
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Middlesex
1997 ordained deacon
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-98 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1998-99 Wiconisco Calvary
1999-01 Lemoyne Calvary
2001-02 Steelton Mt. Zion
2002-03 on leave
2003-08 Dillsburg Arnolds
2008-10 Uriah
2010-12 on leave
2012-16 Liverpool (beginning 8/1/2012)
2016-21 on leave (ending 8/31/2021)
2021 retired (8/31/2021)
2021-22 Carlisle
Good Shepherd Community (9/1/2021 3/1/2022)
JONES, ROBERTA K.
Born: married: [single]
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Harrison Valley
1978 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1967-70 missionary to Taiwan
1971-77 missionary to Korea
1977-79 student, Wesley Theological Seminary
in Washington DC
1979-84 Cocolamus (beginning 1/1/1979)
1984-87 Harrisburg Rutherford Christ
1987-92 associate director, Conference
Council on Ministries
1992-94 UMCOR, GBGM (beginning 9/1/1992)
1994-95 Waynesboro Peace
1995-07 director, board of Ludhiana Christian
College of India
2007 retired
JONES, THOMAS C.
Born: married: Debra _____
Died: obit:
1996 license, recommended by Mackeyville
Interment:
Obit:
1996-08 Antes Fort Oriole
2008-15 Avis
2015-17 Berwick First
2017 retired
2019-20 Williamsport
St. Paul Calvary (beginning 10/1/2019)
2021-22 Rote
Salone (beginning 4/1/2021 and ending 12/31/21)
2022-23 Rote
Salona (beginning 4/1/2022 and ending 1/1/2023)
JONES, WILLIAM C. JR.
Born: married: Karen _____
Died: obit:
? ordained deacon, Baltimore-Washington Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2008-20 Cockeysville Epworth
2020-23 Bethlehem Springvale, Susquehanna Conference
Note:
William C. Jones Jr. is the son of Rev. William Charles Jones (1931-2024) of
the Texas Conference.
JONES, WILLIAM DAVID
Born: married: Elizabeth _____
Died: obit:
1976 license, recommended by Chambersburg Park Avenue
1981 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1975-76 East Waterford (beginning 1/1975 and
ending 5/1975)
1976-77 Lemaster (beginning 1/1976 and ending
12/1976)
1977-84 East Waterford (beginning 1/1976)
1984-90 Trough Creek Valley
1990-92 Fetterhoffs Mt. Union
1992-96 Osceola Mills
1996 retired
JORDAN, DANIEL HERBERT
Born: married: Vicki Ann Clemons (6/2/1979)
Died: obit: SZusquehanna Conference 2024, 343
1982 license, recommended by LAnse MI
1995 ordained deacon
1999 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-87 York Haven (beginning 11/1/1982)
1987-96 Morris
1996-02 Coudersport Park
2002-05 Millerstown (ending 3/1/2005)
2005 sabbatical leave(beginning 3/1/2005 and ending 6/30/2005)
2005-09 New Albany
2009-12 Williamsburg and Canoe Creek
2012 retired
Note: Daniel H. Jordan is the husband of Vicki A. Jordan.
JORDAN, VICKI A.
Born: 3-13-1938 Indianapolis IN married: Daniel H. Jordan (6/2/1979)
Died: 5-4-2023 Wilmington DE obit:
2002 license, recommended by Coudersport Park
Interment: [body donated to science]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 343
2002-05 Snyders
2005-09 Forksville Hillsgrove
2009-12 Wolfsburg Trans Run
2012-16 Shade Valley
2016 retired
Note:
Vicki A. Jordan is the wife of Daniel H. Jordan.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Centre Hall Grace
Interment:
Obit:
2014-18 New Freedom
2018-23 Pleasureville (ending 8/1/2022)
2024 discontinued (4/29/2024)
Note:
Ross A. Judy served as a local pastor.
KAETZEL-ROW, BARBARA JOANNE
Born: married: Neel Row
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Towanda First
1992 ordained deacon
1995 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-93 student, Colgate Rochester Divinty
School
1993-95 Dushore Laporte
1995-97 Trough Creek Valley
1997-02 Picture Rocks Parish (ending
2/1/2002)
2002-04 Martinsville (beginning 2/1/2002)
2004-09 Morrisdale Palestine
2009-12 Hughesville Bethany (ending
1/31/2012)
2012 retired (1/31/2012)
KANG, HO S.
Born: married: Mihyang _____
Died: obit:
license
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
Soeul Conference of the Korean UMC
2014-16 Harrisburg Harris Street, Susquehanna Confernce
2016-19 Mechanicsburg Wesley, Susquehanna Conference
2019-22 Great Bend Franklin Forks, Susquehanna Conference
2022 transfer to Susquehanna Conference (2/25/2022)
2022-23 Great Bend Franklin Forks
2023 disaffiliated
KASAMBIRA, MERCY MWAZVIWANZA MUJATI
Born: 9-6-1933 Mutamrara, Zimbabwe married: Daniel Kasambira
Died: 2-11-1995 Tioga County PA obit:
license, recommended by Mansfield
1979 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-80 student, Lancaster Theological
Seminary
1980-86 East Canton
1986-89 on leave
1989-93 Leesburg (beginning 8/1/1989)
1993-95 Liberty
Note:
The Kasambira family are in-laws to the Michael Chitewere family. Michael is a member of the Zimbabwe
Conference and studied and lived in Mansfield for a time.
KAUFFMAN, PAUL CLINTON
Born: married: Bonita _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Crossroads
1972 ordained deacon
1976 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1972-75 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1972-73 Farmersville
OH, West Ohio Conference
1973-74 Ephrata
PA, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
1974-75 Otterbein
Home, West Ohio Conference
1975-80 Montandon Milton St. Peters
1981-83 Mackeyville (ending 9/15/1983)
1983-87 chaplain, Dallas State Correctional
Institution (beginning 9/15/1983)
1987-93 chaplain, US Army
1993-96 Coudersport Parish
1996-99 Mechanicsburg Youngs
1999-03 Sunbury Albright Otterbein
2003-05 chaplain, US Army
2005-06 director, Selinsgrove Chaplaincy
Program
2006-09 chaplain, US Army
2009-11 director, Selinsgrove Chaplaincy
Program (ending 5/12/2011)
2011 retired (5/12/2011)
2011-12 Dewart
St. Johns
2021-22 New
Freedom (ending 8/31/2021)
KAUFFMAN, PAUL W. III
Born: 1957 married: Pamela Cianciosi
Died: 9-28-2015 Elizabeth KY obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 401
married2: Kathy _____
? license, recommended by Newport obit2:
Interment:
Obit:
1983-86 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
Dodsonville OH
1986 discontinued, page 351
social worker, Kentucky Department of Child Welfare
Note: Paul W. Kauffman III is the son of Paul Wilfred Kauffman, and his legal name is actually Paul Wilbert Kauffman. Pamela Cianciosi is a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.
KAUFFMAN, RAY LEE
Born: married: Georgia _____
Died: obit:
1972 license, recommended by Chambersburg First
1976 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1972-79 Chambersburg St. Johns
1979-88 chaplain, Franklin County prison
1988-94 executive director, Fruitbelt Farm
Workers
1992-94 chaplain,
Franklin County Prison (beginning 1/1/1992)
1994-00 PA Council of Churches Migrant
Ministry
2000 retired
KAYLOR, ROBERT ALFRED
Born: married: Jennifer _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Bellefonte Faith
1994 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
KEAGLE, MARIANNE Z.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1991-95 East Freedom
KEEL, JUSTIN M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2022-23 Wolfsburg Trans Run
KELLER, DENNIS RAPHAEL
Born: married: Elizabeth _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Carlisle Grace
1980 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1980-82 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1982-89 Emigsville
1989-95 Centre Hall
1995-01 Hanover First
2001-09 Camp Hill
2009-12 superintendent, New Cumberland
District
2012-15 superintendent, Harrisburg District
2015-23 Mechanicsburg First
Note;
Dennis R. Keller is a brother to Jane E. Keller.
KELLER, JANE E.
Born: married: Glenn Rosborough
Died: obit:
2015 license
Interment:
Obit:
2015-18 Hopewell
2018-21 Paddletown
2021-23 Shiremanstown
Note
Jane E. Keller is a sister to Dennis R. Keller.
KENT, SHARON L.
Born: married: Angus Kent
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Brookfield
Interment:
Obit:
2004-12 Elkland
2012 retired
KENYON, NANCI L.
Born: married: William Kenyon
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Duncannon Otterbein
Interment:
Obit:
2012-14 Center Moreland
2014-16 Harrisburg St. Marks
2016-19 Summerdale (ending 12/31/2018)
2019-23 unappointed (beginning 1/1/2019)
2024 discontinued (5/14/2024)
KERLIN, DANIEL C.
Born: married: Nichole _____
Died: obit:
2015 license
Interment:
Obit:
2015-21 Mifflin Ebenezer Mexico
2021-23 unappointed
KERLIN, LISA KAYE [see KLINGER]
KERSTETTER, WAYNE A.
Born: married: Debra _____
Died: obit:
2008 license
Interment:
Obit:
2008-23 Reward Salem (beginning 5/1/2008)
KEYWORTH, DAVID J.
Born: married: Meghan _____
Died: obit:
2015 license
2018 provisional elder
2020 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2015-18 Tyrone Wesley
2018-23 Trinity
charge (Dellville, Maysville Salem)
KIBBE, GEORGE ROLLO
Born: 4-9-1931 Williamsport PA married: Sharon Rose Thompson (1979)
Died: 2-13-2017 Baltimore MD obit: [1/2/1943 9/7/2024]
? ordained [EUB Church]
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Upper New York Conference 2017, 214
1991-93 Muncy Valley
2003-06 Muncy Valley (beginning 5/30/2003)
Note:
George Kibbe served while retaining his membership in the Western New York
Conference. Mrs. Kibbe is buried in
Daysville Cemetery, Richland NY, and had been previously married to a Mr.
Marcus A. Bennett (1944-2019).
KILLEBREW, DOROTHY HICKOK
Born: married: Milton G. Killebrew
Died: obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 447
married2: Robert G. Neuhauser
license, recommended by Troy First obit2:
1985 ordained deacon
1987 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-88 Delta-Bryansville
1988-89 Mt. Pisgah Trinity
1989-92 Altoona Llysewn
1992-95 Altoona Pleasant Valley
1995-97 Lewistown Grove Memorial Glenwood
1997 retired
Note:
Dorothy H. Killebrew is the wife of Milton G. Killebrew. She attended Drew Theological Seminary
1959-60 and served as a Methodist missionary in Southern Rhodesia (now
Zimbabwe) 1960-62.
KILLEBREW, MILTON GAYLE
Born: 4-30-1936 Monte Alto TX married: Dorothy Mae Hickock
Died: 12-12-1994 Altoona PA obit:
1954 license
1959 ordained deacon, Southwest Texas Conference
1962 ordained elder, Southwest Texas Conference
Interment: City of Weslaco Cemetery, Weslaco TX
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 447
1954-58 student, Southwestern University in Georgetown TX
1956-58 Nolanville, Texas Conference
1958-61 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1961-63 Bracken
1963-64 Dilley
1964-66 Manchaca
1966-67 student, University of Texas
1967-69 junior high teacher, Watkins Glen NY
1969-71 faculty, International School of Bangkok Thailand
1971-72 faculty, Bolan Haver Mather Academy in Camden SC
1972 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1972-79 Flemington
1979-81 Williamsport Calvary Grace
1981-84 Windsor Area Larger Parish
1984-89 York Calvary
1989-94 Altoona Faith Trinity
Note:
Milton G. Killebrew is the husband of Dorothy H. Killebrew.
KILMER, WILLIAM RODNEY
Born: married: Geri _____
Died: obit:
1989 ordained deacon, recommended by Newburg Otterbein
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-90 student, Asbury Theological Seminary
in Wilmore KY
1990-93 Three Springs
1993-95 associate, Carlisle Allison (ending
1/15/1995)
1995-05 chaplain, US Army (1/15/1995
10/31/2005)
2005-23 on leave (beginning 10/31/2005)
KIM, SARAH H.
Born: married: Jin Kim
Died: obit:
2011 license, California-Pacific Conference
2012 license, recommended by Tyrone Christ
2014 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2003-09 Korean Community Church of New Jersey
2009-12 Maui Korean Mission
2012-14 Tyrone Christ Hannah (beginning 8/1/2012)
2014-17 Pleasant Gap
2017-20 West Decatur Wallaceton
2020-23 Nittany Sugar Valley
KINARD, NORMA JEAN
Born: 1942 married: [single]
Died: 11-19-2020 obit:
1966 license, recommended by Bittersville
1967 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 362
1966-67 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1967-69 Dushore Lopez
1968-69 Laporte
1969-70 Muncy Valley
1970-78 Unityville
1978-84 Winfield Trinity
1984-89 Altoona Mardorf
1989-99 Summerdale
1999-05 Middlesex
2005 retired
KINCAID, LAURA M.
Born: married: James Kincaid
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Camp Hill
Interment:
Obit:
2014-20 Marysville Bethany
2020-23 New Milford South Montrose Community
KINCH, WILLIAM DEAN
Born: 11-23-1920 Blain PA married: Dorothy Virginia Moore
Died: 3-31-2011 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 413
1966 license, recommended by Linglestown
1968 ordained deacon, Eastern Conference
1971 ordained elder, Eastern Conference
Interment: Indiantown Gap Military Cemetery, Indiantown Gap
PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 400
1966-68 Enders Powells Valley
1968-73 Lebanon St. Lukes
1973 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1973-81 Richfield Mt. Zion (ending 10/1/1981)
1981-84 Summerdale (beginning 10/1/1981)
1984 retired
KIND, CHARLES L.
Born: 8-31-1943 married: Nessie _____ (1971)
Died: 10-13-2021 obit:
license, recommended by Chambersburg First
1999 provisional elder
2003 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 360
1996-98 Hillcrest
1998-04 Scotland Salem
2004-10 Lightstreet
2010 retired
2011-16 Bethel
UMC, Seaford DE
Note:
Charles L. Kind is the father of Kathleen E. Kind.
KIND, KATHLEEN E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1998 license, recommended by Chambersburg First
2001 provisional elder
2004 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1998-03 Barts Centenary
2003-09 Lock Haven Covenant
2009-12 Hummels Wharf
2012-20 superintendent, Altoona District
2020-22 Camp Hill (ending 3/31/2022)
2022-23 director, Susquehanna Conference
Connectional Ministries (beginning 4/1/2022)
Note:
Kathleen E. Kind is the daughter of Charles L Kind.
KING, LAURA E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Chambersburg First
2010 provisional elder
2012 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2007-10 East Canton
2010-16 Mount Union First
2013-16 Huntingdon
12th Street (beginning 2/1/2013)
2016-18 Berwick Calvary St. Pauls
2018-23 Woolrich - McElhattan
KIRCHMEIER, EMMALOU HANDFORD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1986 license, recommended by Hazardville, New England Conference
1989 ordained deacon
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-88 student, Boston University School of Theology
1988-92 Monroeton
1992 retired
KITCHEN, GAIL Y. (HAYMAN)
Born: married: Raymond F. Kitchen, Jr.
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 359
2006 license, recommended by Fairmont Springs
Interment:
Obit:
2006-16 McKendree Oakdale (ending 6/1/2016)
2016-20 Harrisonville (beginning 6/1/2016)
2020 retired
2020-21 Lightstreet
2021-23 Orangeville Rohrsburg
KITZMILLER, KENNETH R.
Born: married: Deborah _____
Died: obit:
1995 license, recommended by Stewartstown
Interment:
Obit:
1992-93 Freysville Zion
1995-01 Middlebury Parish
2001-14 Juniata Parish
2014 retired
2014-23 Holy Cross (Bucks, Hill, New Buffalo)
KLEBE, WILLIAM M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-23 Berwick First
KLEIN, TIMOTHY S.
Born: married: Kara _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Stewartstown
Interment:
Obit:
2014-17 Peach Bottom (beginning 1/23/2014)
2017-20 Pine Grove
2020-23 Chestnut Grove
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Timothy S. Klein served as a local pastor.
KLINGER, LISA KAYE KERLIN
Born: married: Robert Klinger
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Hummelstown Trinity
1993 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1993-98 Wiconisco Calvary
1998-02 York Otterbein (ending 1/1/2002)
2002 on leave (beginning 1/1/2002)
2002-05 Liverpool
2005-10 Mount Holly Springs
2010-18 Blue Mountain
2018 retired
KLINGERMAN, I. ROBERT
Born: married: Dena _____
Died: obit:
2003 license, recommended by Berwick
Interment:
Obit:
2003-18 Center
2018 retired
KLOPP, CHRISTOPHER A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2009 license
Interment:
Obit:
2009-11 Bald Eagle Grazierville
2011 no longer listed
Note:
Christopher A. Klopp graduated from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in
1995. He is otherwise unknown.
KNEPP, HAROLD JEPTHA
Born: 11-14-1922 Woodland PA married: Kathryn M. Lauder
Died: 12-16-2010 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 424
1956 license
1962 ordained elder, Western Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Indiantown
Gap PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 401
1956-58 Altoona Faith
1958-52 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1958-62 New Madison OH Otterbein Savona
1962-67 Ligonier Calvary
1967-68 Pittsburgh Albright (beginning 8/12/1967)
1968-70 Phillipsburg Grace (beginning 11/15/1968)
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference by change of boundary
1970-77 Phillipsburg Grace
1977-81 Lykens
1981-85 Harrisburg Otterbein
1983-85 Camp
Curtain
1985 retired
1985-89 Palestine
KNISLEY, NED L.
Born: 5-31-1942 Red Lion PA married: Barbara Sue Sechrist [1/19/1963]
Died: 10-8-2011 Spring City TN obit:
1969 license
Interment: Hillsdale Bible Church Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA
Obit: [conference biographical files]
1969-74 Buffalo Valley
1974 withdrew from United Methodist Church
1974-10 Hillsdale Bible Church, Mifflinburg PA
2010 retired
Note: Ned L. Knisley taught high school 1964-69 before entering the ministry. He graduated from the Evangelical School of Theology in Myerstown PA in 1972.
KNITTER, STEPHEN JOHN
Born: married: Alice
Died: obit:
1992 license, recommended by Quincy
1999 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1992-01 Upper Adams Parish
2001-10 Osceola Mills
2010 retired
KNORR, MICHAEL L.
Born: 9-18-1946 New Castle PA married: Sue Ann Cope
Died: 7-12-2011 Millville PA obit: [d. 2/26/2004]
1969 license
Interment:
Obit: [conference biographical files]
2003-05 Beech Haven
2005 retired
Note: Michael L. Knorr served as a second career local pastor, having worked at Magee Carpet and other industries.
KNORR, SUSAN K.
Born: married: Edward Knorr
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Lime Ridge
Interment:
Obit:
2007-17 Columbia Circuit (beginning 1/1/2007)
2017-23 Nescopeck
Note:
Susan K. Hess Knorr is the daughter of Charles F. Hess Sr. of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference (Methodist).
KOCEK, FRANK
Born: married: Patricia A. Kesselring (6/4/1988)
Died: obit: [3/6/1951 9/23/2025]
1998 license, recommended by Mont Alto Wesley
Interment:
Obit:
1991-92 Mont Alto Wesley (ending 11/1/1991)
1992-19 Warfordsburg (beginning 11/1/1991)
2019 retired
2019-23 Warfordsburg
KOCHER-ROSS, KELLY A.
Born: married: Thomas Ross
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Bloomsburg Wesley
Interment:
Obit:
2017-18 Catawissa Bethel
2018-23 Espy Trinity
2019-23 campus ministry, Bloomsburg University (beginning 8/25/2019)
KOHLHEPP, GREGG A.
Born: married: Nicole _____
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Trinity Bellefonte
Interment:
Obit:
2018-21 Woodland
2021-23 Park
Forest Village
KOMINSKY, DAVID T.
Born: married: Hollace _____
Died: obit:
2019 license, recommended by Violet Hill
provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2019-20 Loganville and Violet Hill
2020-24 Yorkshire (ending 7/18/2024)
2024 discontinued 8/28/2014
KOPLITZ, MICHAEL H.
Born: married: Sandra _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by York Messiah
2002 provisional elder
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1999-01 Manchester St. Pauls
2001-06 Brogue Bethel
2006-11 Dillsburg Calvary
2011-14 York Calvary
2012-14 West
End Larger Parish
2014-21 Felton
2021 retired
KORETZKY, DEBRA A. MILLER
Born: 2-10-1955 Lykens PA married: Ralph P. Koretzky
Died: 9-16-2019 Duncannon PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 273
2002 license, recommended by Halifax Jacobs
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 337
2003-04 County Line
2004-07 Powells Valley
2007-09 Halifax Jacobs
2009-14 Rockville (ending 1/14/2014)
2014 unappointed (beginning
1/15/2014)
2014-17 associate, New Cumberland Baughman
Memorial (ending 12/31/2016)
2017 unappointed (beginning 1/1/2017
and ending 2/28/2017)
2017 retired (3/1/2017)
KOSER, SCOTT R.
Born: married: Ellen _____
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street
Interment:
Obit:
2009-14 Linden Parish (beginning 1/1/2009)
2014-16 Pine Run
2016-18 Sunbury Carawissa Avenue
2018-23 Warrensville Heilman
KOVALAK, JANET LYNN
Born: 6-8-1953 York PA married:
[single]
Died: 6-1-2014 obit:
1976 admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
recommended by York Asbury
1976 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna
Conference 2015, 268
1976-78 student, Methodist Theological School
in Delaware OH
1978-79 York Christ
1979-82 Ulster
1982-88 on leave
1988 located
KRATZ, JOHN HOWARD
Born: married: Jane _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Troy First
1994 ordained deacon
1997 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-97 assistant, Newport Parish
1997-07 Barnitz Mt. Zion
2007-17 Fishburn
2017-23 Chambersburg St. Paul
KRAUSS, RYAN T.
Born: married: Linsey _____
Died: obit:
2012 provisional elder, recommended by Bedford
2014 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2012-19 Watsontown
2019-23 Paxtonville
2022-23 Penns Creek St. Pauls
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
KREBS, DWAINE EVAN
Born: 8-?-1967 married: Sherrie _____
Died: obit:
1999 license, recommended by Trinity
2008 provisional elder
2010 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1999-03 Montandon Milton St. Peters
2003-08 State Line
2008-11 Roaring Spring
2011-15 Berwick Bethany
2015 withdrew
Note:
In 2023, Dwaine E. Krebs was living in Seaford DE.
KREISCHER, LARRY H.
Born:10-10-1940 Berwick PA married: Marcia Lauer
Died: 8-16-2014 Berwick obit:
2007 license, recommended by Berwick Bower Memorial
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 269
2007-13 Beach Haven (beginning 1/1/2007)
2013-14 Catawissa Bethel
Note:
Larry H. Kreischer reportedly served one year on the Columbia Circuit in the
early 1970s before entering a 35-year medical career at the Hazleton General
Hospital.
KREISHER, PAUL E.
Born: married: Kathy _____
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Catawissa Bethel
2021-23 unappointed
KREMER, CLAIR FRANCIS
Born: 1-7-1914 Fridensburg PA married: Margaret Amelia Phillips
Died: 6-17-1996 Bloomsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 434
1973 license, recommended by Rohrsburg
1975 ordained deacon
Interment: Union Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 385
1974-76 Buffalo Valley
1976-84 Hunlock Creek
1984 retired
Note:
Clair F. Kremer is the father of James F. Kremer of the Methodist files.
KUHN, WILLIAM EDWARD
Born: married: Joann _____
Died: obit:
1993 license, recommended by Lewistown Lake Park
2001 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1993-96 Penns Valley
1996-99 Harveyville Parish (beginning
10/1/1996)
1999-07 Breezewood
2007-13 Sideling Hill
2013 retired
2020-23 Lockport
Wesley Chapel (beginning 8/23/20)
KURTZ, JOHN L.
Born: married: Christine _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Lebanon Faith
1975 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1971-74 Reading Grace
1974-79 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1974-79 Richmond
Dale, West Ohio Conference
1979-86 Oriole
1986-89 Centre Hall
1989-99 Hallam
1999-00 extension ministry (beginning
9/1/1999)
2000-11 Shiremanstown
2011 retired
2012-19 Camp
Curtin Memorial Mitchell
2019-23 Red
Lion Zion
KYLER, LAURA M.
Born: married: Bryan Kyler
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Grantville
Interment:
Obit:
2008-14 Burnham Parish
2012-14 Milroy
2014-15 Cito
2015-16 Hancock Emory
2016-18 on leave
2018-20 Tri-County Parish (Canton, East
Canton, Grover, Shunk, Ward)
2020-23 Lehman-Idetown
LAKE, DARYL GREGORY
Born: 6-12-1953 McConnellsburg PA married: Cynthia L. Hawk (8/21/1976)
Died: 4-2-2020 Williamsport obit:
license, recommended by Mercersburg First
1978 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Mercersburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 168
1978-80 student, Lancaster Theological
Seminary
1979-80 associate,
Carlisle Grace
1980-81 associate, Carlisle Grace (ending
9/1/1981)
1981-89 Martinsville (beginning 9/1/1981)
1989-94 Paddletown
1994-99 Hughesville Bethan
1999-01 Warriors Mark
2001-02 Altoona 58th Street
2002-07 Lewistown Grove Memorial
2002-03 Glenwood
2007-10 Williamsport Balls Mills (ending
2/1/2010)
2010 retired (2/1/2010)
LAKE, MATTHEW EARL
Born: married: Jennifer _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Warriors Mark
2000 provisional elder
2004 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-11 Altoona Second Avenue
2011-23 Williamsport
First
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
LAMER, B, TODD
Born: married: Sherri _____
Died: obit:
2017 license, recommended by Austin
Interment:
Obit:
2017-19 Genesee Ulysses
2019-23 Austin Keating Summit
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Todd B. Lamer served as a local pastor.
LANDIS, RONALD EUGENE
Born: married: Rebecca _____
Died: obit:
1968 license, Eastern Conference EUB: recommended by Shopes
1971 ordained deacon
1975 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1968-70 student, Lebanon Valley College
1968-69 assistant,
Enders Powells Valley
1969-70 assistant,
Halifax Area Parish
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference by boundary change
1970-74 student, Lancaster Theological
Seminary
1970-74 assistant,
Enders Powells Valley
1974-78 Shade Valley
1978-88 Summit Hill
1988-95 Montandon Milton St. Peters
1995-12 Cocolamus
2012 retired
2023 disaffiliated
LANDIS, SHARON L.
Born: married: Thomas Roger Landis
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 286
1991 license, recommended by Cocolamus St. Johns
1998 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1991-98 associate, Juniata Parish
1998-02 Petersburg
2002-08 McConnellstown
2008-09 on leave
2009 retired
2021-22 McAllen
TX St. Mark (beginning 2/1/2022)
2022-23 Falfurrias
TX
LANGFORD, WALTER MICHAEL
Born: married: Diane Combs
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 286
married2: Linda _____
license, recommended by Clearfield Trinity obit2:
1978 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 student, Drew University School of
Theology in Madison NJ
1980-81 associate, Bloomsburg Wesley
1981-88 Milesburg
1988-04 Chambers Hill
2004-15 York Messiah
2015-23 Mechanicsburg Grace
LANIOUS, CHESTER H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1968 license, recommended by Mexico Grace
Interment:
Obit:
1968-69 Clines
1969-70 Mt. Victory
1970 no longer listed
Note:
Chester Lanious served while a student at Messiah College. He was later ordained in the Orthodox
Presbyterian Church and became a chaplain in the US Army.
LAUCHLE, PAUL ALAN
Born: 4-21-1951 Williamsport PA married: Kathleen Jeskie
Died: 7-21-2006 obit:
license, recommended by Heilman
1974 ordained deacon
1978 ordained elder
Interment: cremated, ashes scattered near family farm in
Lycoming County
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 415
1974-77 South Lebanon, West Ohio Conference
1977-88 Coudersport
1988-96 Williamsport St. Johns
1996-06 Harrisburg Colonial Park
LAUER, JEFFREY F.
Born: married: Sandra Berardis
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by State College St. Pauls
Interment:
Obit:
2018-23 West Branch
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Jeffrey F. Lauer served as local pastor.
LAYMAN KNOX, ANNA E.
Born: married: Simon Knox
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Carlisle Allison
2008 provisional elder
2014 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2008-12 Manning Road Methodist Church, South
Africa
2012-16 Hawley
2016-23 associate, Camp Hill
2023- Harrisburg Grace
Note:
Anna E. Layman Knox is the daughter of Karen Layman.
LAYMAN, KAREN ENGLE
Born: 9-25-1949 Rochester PA married: Joseph A. Layman Jr.
Died: 1-14-2005 obit:
1971 license, recommended by Carlisle Grace
1973 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Carlisle PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 448
1973-74 Bethany Village
1974-76 student, Union Theological Seminary in New York City NY
1976-78 Cocolamus
1978-79 associate, Harrisburg Calvary
1979-80 campus minister, Harrisburg Area Community College
1980-81 chaplain, Carlisle Hospital
1981-87 Mount Rock
1987-91 associate, Lemoyne Grace
1991-94 Mechanicsburg Hope
1994-05 Carlisle Allison
Note:
Karen Layman is the niece of Southern Methodist missionary Margaret Marsh, who
served in Tanzania, Africa, 1918-64. She
is the mother of Anna E. Layman Knox.
LAYSER, DAVID M.
Born: married: Emily _____
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Fishburn
2019 provisional elder
2021 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2011-18 Halifax (beginning 5/31/2011)
2018-23 Danville Trinity
2023 disaffiliated
LECKRONE, TERRY LEE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1970 admitted on trial, recommended by York Trinity
1970 ordained deacon
1976 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1972-75 student, Eastern Baptist Seminary
student assistant, Philadelphia St. Lukes
counselor, York Prison
youth director, Ambler Calvary
staff, Lankenau Hospital
1975-78 Jerseytown
1978-79 associate, New Cumberland Baughman Memorial
1979-84 Harrisburg Christ
1984-91 Harrisburg Park Street
1991-92 Shippensburg Christ (ending 11/1/1991)
1992- director, Capitol Area Cerebral Palsy
Note:
LeCRONE, JEFFREY L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1994 license, recommended by Altoona Fairview
2003 provisional elder
2007 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-03 Wolfsburg
2003-07 Jersey Shore First (ending 10/31/2007)
2007-19 campus minister, Lycoming College (beginning 11/1/2007)
2019-20 interim pastor, Williamsport St. Lukes Lutheran Church
2020 withdrew
Note: Jeffrey L. LeCrone withdrew to join the Lutheran
Church and continuing serving Williamsport St. Lukes.
LEE, JOHN E.
Born: married: Joan _____
Died: obit:
1994 license, recommended by Beaver Memorial
2002 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1992-94 Ash Grove and Irish Valley, Eastern
Pennsylvania Conference
1994-97 Orangeville
1997-11 West Milton
2011 retired
2012-13 Mt.
Pleasant Mills (beginning 5/1/2013)
LEEDOM, MICHAEL JAMES
Born: married: Deborah _____
Died: obit:
1991 license, Baltimore-Washington Conference: recommended by Carpendale WV Holy Cross
1996 ordained deacon
2000 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1991-93 Mapleside-Melvin
1993 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1993-97 Wolfsburg
1997-01 Altoona Fairview
2001-04 Blossburg/Covington (ending 3/15/2004)
2004-06 on leave (beginning 3/15/2004)
2006-08 Mifflintown (ending 9/7/2008)
2008-09 on leave (beginning 9/7/2008)
2009-12 South Cumberland, Baltimore-Washington Conference
2012-13 Berkeley Springs Union Chapel, Baltimore-Washington Conference
2013 transfer to Baltimore-Washington Conference
LEEDS, ROBERT SHANNON
Born: married: Carolyn _____
Died: obit:
1961 license, Alabama West Florida Conference: recommended by Panama City FL St. Andrew
1968 ordained deacon, Florida Conference
1970 ordained elder, Florida Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1961-62 Trinity FL
1962-63 Highlandview FL (ending 1/13/1963)
Wallsboro AL (beginning 1/13/1963)
1963-64 Woodland FL
1964-67 Manor Hill, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1967-68 Efland, North Carolina Conference
1968 transfer to Florida Conference
1968-70 Efland, North Carolina Conference
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1970-72 Camp Hill
1972-97 chaplain, US Air Force
1997-98 Hilltop UT, Rocky Mountain Conference
1998-99 ? (ending 3/14/1999)
Northgate Fellowship CO,
Rocky Mountain Conference (beginning 3/14/1999)
1999-11 Tri-Lakes CO, Rocky Mountain
Conference
2011 withdrew (3/19/2011) see
2011,239
LEH, HOWARD W.
Born: married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
1998 license, recommended by Benton Christ
Interment:
Obit:
1998-11 Benton Christ
2011 retired
2011-20 Benton
Christ
Note:
Howard W. Leh served as a local pastor
LEIGEY, BRENDA KAY
Born: married: Allen Leigy
Died: obit:
1990 license, recommended by Mt. Hope Salem
1994 ordained deacon
1997 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1990-95 Brandon Central
1995-01 Nescopeck Wesley
2000-01 Nescopeck
Albright
2001-19 Philipsburg Trinity
2019-23 superintendent, State College
District
LEIGY, ELWOOD ELLIS
Born: married: Kathy Ann Leigy
Died: obit:
1987 license, recommended by Medicine Bow WY
Interment:
Obit:
1990-93 Newton Hamilton
1993-98 Runville
1998-06 Milton Bethany
2003-06 Milton St. Peters
2006-11 Mapleton Parish
2011 retired
Note:
Elwood E. Leigy served as a local pastor.
Mrs. Leigy is also a member of the Susquehanna Conference.
LEIGY, KATHY ANN
Born: married: Elwood S. Leigy
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Milton Bethany
Interment:
Obit:
2005-06 Freeburg/Shamokin Dam
2006-08 Mill Creek
2008-11 McConnellstown/Mill Creek
2011-17 Bigler
2017 retired
Note: Kathy A. Leigy served as a local pastor. Mr. Leigy is also a member of the Susquehanna Conference.
LEITZEL, CHARLES HENRY JR.
Born: 3-24-1922 Millersburg PA married: Arlene Kerstetter
Died: 10-15-2012 Elizabethtown PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 260
1966 license, Eastern Conference: recommended by Millersburg Hebron
1970 ordained deacon
Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 268
1966-67 Upper Dauphin circuit
1967-70 Tower City/Muir
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-71 Tower City/Muir
1971-78 Williamsport High Street
1978-84 Millersburg First
1984 retired
Note:
Charles H. Leitzel was a second-career pastor who was a watchmaker and proprietor of two jewelry
stores for 18 years prior to entering the ministry. He became an associate member of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference in 1970.
LEELAND, LARRY LEE JR.
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
1994 license, recommended by Hellam Faith
1997 ordained deacon
2000 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-95 Dover Bethany
1995-99 associate, Manchester St. Pauls
1999-10 Selinsgrove Christ
2010-16 Montoursville Faith
2016-20 superintendent, Lewisburg District
2020-23 Montoursville Faith
LENKER, THOMAS CLARE
Born: married: Judith _____
Died: obit:
1987 license, recommended by Millersburg Grace
1988 ordained deacon
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-88 Dauphin Heckton
1988-92 Spring Run
1992-95 Lock Haven East Main Street Laurel
Run
1995-00 Columbia circuit
2000-10 Bigler (ending 9/24/2009)
2010 terminated see 2010,51
LEONARD, RICHARD DALE
Born: married: Shirley _____
Died: obit:
1973 license, recommended by Wallis Run
1976 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1970-73 Wallis Run
1973-82 Warrensville
1982-83 Trout Run (ending 10/31/1983)
1983-95 Grover (beginning 11/1/1983)
1995-07 Millville
2007-12 Mill-Green
2012 retired
2012-17 assisting
elder, Lewisburg District (ending 12/31/2017)
LESHER, JOHN J. JR
Born: married: Suzanne _____
Died: obit:
2016 license, recommended by Elizabethville Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
2016-22 Halifax Zion Stone
2022-23 Lykens
LEVY, BRUCE M.
Born: married: Joyce _____
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Shippensburg Messiah
Interment:
Obit:
2018-22 Shippensburg Christ Newburg Otterbein
2022-23 Chambersburg circuit (Park Avenue St. Johns)
LEVY, JEFFREY A.
Born: married: Leesa _____
Died: obit:
2005 provisional elder, Dakotas Conference
2009 ordained, Dakotas Confernce
Interment:
Obit:
2005-06 Enderlin (beginning 8/20/2005)
2006-11 Wimbledon - Kensal
2011-14 Moscow, Susquehanna Conference
2014 transfer to Susquehanna Conference
2014-16 Moscow
2016-19 Hawley
2019-22 Scranton Court Street Embury
2022 retired
LEWIS, JAMES EDWIN
Born: married: Wanda _____
Died: obit:
1990 license
2002 provisional elder
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1990-96 Forksville charge
1995-96
Eagles Mere
1996-03 Mt. Pleasant Mills
2003-13 Montandon Northumberland Christ
2013-14 Hamlin Centenary Lake Ariel
Lakeville
2014-21 Loyalton Immanuel Wiconisco Wesley
2021-23 East Prospect
LEWIS, MARIE ESTELLA
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1984 license, recommended by Balls Mills
Interment:
Obit:
1985-88 Eagles Mere (ending 8/15/1988)
1988-91 associate, Lock Haven Trinity Flemington (beginning 8/15/1988)
1991-95 Renovo First
1995-05 Lock Haven parish (beginning 1/1/1996)
2005 retired
2006-14 Wallis Run
2014-17 Loyalsock
2022-23 Montoursville Bethel
2024 discontinued (6/17/2024)
Note:
Marie E. Lewis served as a local pastor.
LIBERT. JOHN C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license, recommended by Yorkshire
1980 ordained deacon
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1981-84 associate, Windsor Area larger parish
1984-85 Wiconisco
1985-91 Jefferson Greenmount
1991-95 at school
1995-99 Harrisburg Fifth Street
1999-01 East Salem Otterbein
2001-04 Jersey Shore Trinity
2004-09 Mechanicsburg Wesley (ending 1/31/2009)
2009-13 on leave
2013 withdrew 4/30/2013 see 2013,157
LIDDICK, EUGENE ALBERT
Born: married: Pamela _____
Died: obit:
? license, recommended by Harrisburg Derry Street
1983 ordained deacon
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-84 associate, Lemoyne Grace (ending
10/15/1984)
1984-85 Harrisburg Fifth Street (beginning
10/15/1984)
1985-08 Charlton
2008-12 Lemoyne Grace
2012-17 Enola Emmanuel
2017 retired
2017-18 Dover
New Creation (beginning 9/1/2017)
2018-19 Millerstown
2020-22 Shepherdstown
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/21/2023)
LIGHT, ERIC D.
Born: married: Karlen _____
Died: obit:
2020 license, recommended by Mt. Pleasant
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Susquehanna Valley
LIPLES, RUTH S.
Born: married: Vincent Liples
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Montdale
Interment:
Obit:
2014-18 Mt. Zion Orange
2018-23 Witmers
2022-23 Freeburg
(beginning 7/8/2022)
LIVERMORE, CRAIG W.
Born: married: Deborah Branker
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Balls Mills
Interment:
Obit:
2012-17 Muncy Valley
2017-23 unappointed
LIVERMORE, STEVEN MARK
Born: married: Susan _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Williamsport St. Johns
1982 ordained deacon
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1980-84 student, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
1984-89 Burlington
1989-13 Pleasureville
2013-20 Shippensburg Messiah
2020-24 Chambersburg First
2024 retired
2024 withdrew 7/10/2024
LONG, CHRISTOPHER D.
Born: married: Jamie _____
Died: obit:
2017 license, recommended by Danville Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
2017-19 Montgomery (beginning 4/17/17)
2019-22 Dushore Laporte
2022-23 Churchville Reedsville - Milroy
LONG, MICHAEL GRIFFITH
Born: married: Karin Fredrickson
Died: obit:
1989 ordained deacon, recommended by Lewistown Trinity
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-91 associate, York Aldersgate
1991-96 student
1996-01 Harrisburg Harris Street (beginning 1/1/1996)
2001-02 on leave
2002-07 faculty, Elizabethtown College
2007 withdrew (effective 11/13/2007)
LONGEWAY, PAUL ALLEN
Born: 1-31-1947 Washington DC married: Terry Ayres
Died: 2-18-2008 Inman SC obit:
1967 license, recommended by Shepherdstown
Interment: Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro NJ
Obit:
1967-69 Mt. Victory
Note: This surname sometimes appears as LONGWAY. He is pictured in the 1967 journal on page 7
with the new probationers, and his recommendation appears on page 232. While he completed the previous year, he was
not given an assignment in 1969 and his name appears in no other context in the
1969 or subsequent journals. A 1983 RCA
publication states the following: Paul Longeway graduated from
Messiah College, Grantham, Pa. in 1968 with a B.A. in Natural Sciences. After
working for several years, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania State University,
where he received a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1981. In November of 1981, Dr.
Longeway came to work for RCA Laboratories, Princeton, N.J. in the Photovoltaic
Process and Applications Research Group. Since then, he has been involved in
analyzing the discharge chemistry of silanes, optical emission spectroscopy and
mass spectroscopy of the silane discharge, preparation of amorphous - silicon
materials and process engineering for photovoltaic manufacture. Contact him at:
RCA Laboratories Princeton. N.J. TACNET: 226-2441. More information is available at the
conference archives.
LORAH, MARTIN HERMAN
Born: married: Jayne _____
Died: obit:
1973 ordained, United Church of Christ
1990 license
1995 orders recognized from UCC
Interment:
Obit:
1972-77 Lebanon Tabor and Cleona Hill
1981 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference UMC
1981-88 minister of music, Fayetteville Calvary
1988-89 ?
1989-90 Chambersburg Park Avenue
1990-96 Airville Bethel - Salem
1996-04 Wrightsville Grace
2004-09 Scotland Salem
2009-11 East Salem Otterbein
2011-13 Mapleton parish
2013 retired
LOSS, KENNETH DONALD
Born: 11-11-1924 Penns Creek PA married: Lois Geraldine Grove
Died: 2-29-2020 Lewisburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 269
1983 license, recommended by Williamsport Heshbon Park
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 338
1983-85 Sugar Valley
1985-90 Osceola Mills
1990 retired
1995-01 South
Williamsport larger parish
LOVE, DAVID GOODLOE III
Born: 12-1-1935 Kingstree SC married: Mary Joyce _____
Died: 2-8-2020 York PA obit:
1960 license, recommended by Columbia TN First
1964 ordained deacon
1966 ordained elder
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 339
1962-63 Carlisle Allison, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1963-64 ?
1964-66 Chicago Chrsitian Fellowship Methodist Church, Northern IL Conf
1965 transfer to Northern Illinois Conference
1965-66 Chicago Christian Fellowship Methodist Church
1966-69 Madison IL
1969-70 Hartsville SC Twitty
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-73 Harrisburg St. Marks (ending 11/14/1973)
1973-79 chaplain, Quincy Home (beginning 11/15/1973
1979-89 disability leave
1989-95 Berwick St. Pauls
1995-00 disability leave
2000-01 Loganville Emmanuel
2001 retired
LOVE-BAIR, SUMMER A.
Born: married: Patrick Bair
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-24 Fort Loudon Edenville (ending
7/15/2024)
2024 discontinued 7/15/2024
LOYER, KENNETH MILTON
Born: 11-24-1979 married: Molly _____
Died: obit:
2009 provisional elder, recommended by Red Lion St. Pauls
2011 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2009-10 student, Southern Methodist University
2010-23 Spry Otterbein
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn (7/1/2023)
Note:
Kenneth M. Loyer is a brother to Ruth Myers and a first cousin to Matthew J.
Loyer.
LOYER, MATTHEW JAMES
Born: 8-17-1971 Marlette MI married: Mariela Guzman
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Shepherdstown
2000 ordained deacon
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1998-99 Juniata parish
1999-01 Harrisburg Derry Street Epworth
2001-11 Biglerville Clines
2011-18 Wellsville parish
2018-20 Winfield Trinity New Berlin Emmanuel
2020-23 York Fourth
Note:
Matthew J. Loyer is the son of Milton W. Loyer and a first cousin to Kenneth M.
Loyer.
LOYER, MILTON WAYNE
Born: 5-5-1946 San Francisco CA married: Sandra Lynne Heinz (6/7/1970)
Died: obit:
1989 completed studies for license as a local pastor (1989,219)
Interment:
Obit:
1988 Mount Airy Mount Zion (July September)
2004-05 assistant, Williamsport Calvary
2012-25 assistant, Wellsville (beginning January 2012)
Note: Milton W. Loyer is the grandson of Charles H. Loyer of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church, the father of Matthew J. Loyer and the uncle of Kenneth M. Loyer. He supplied appointments as an advanced lay speaker, and he also served as the conference archivist beginning in 1991.
LUDROWSKY, ROBERT S.
Born: married: Sharon A. _____
Died: obit:
1981 license, recommended by Osceola Mills
1983 ordained deacon
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1981-85 Mount Hope
1985-91 Altoona Greenwood
1991-95 Millville
1995-99 Berwick St. Pauls
1999-06 Buffalo Run
2006-09 Bellwood Tipton
2009-10 on leave
2010-17 Curwensville
2017 retired
2017-23 Bigler
Note:
Robert S. Ludrowsky is the husband of Sharon A. Ludrowsky.
LUDROWSKY, SHARON A.
Born: married: Robert A. Ludrowsky
Died: obit:
2001 license
Interment:
Obit:
2001-06 Ross
2006-09 Altoona Grace
Note Sharon A. Ludrowsky served as a local pastor. She is the wife of Robert A. Ludrowsky.
LUKESH, WILLIAM NICHOLAS
Born: 2-?-1950 married: Bonnie Harvey (1974)
Died: obit:
1974 license, Primitive Methodist Church
1977 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1974-76 Houtzdale Primitive Methodist Church
1976-77 student, Drew Theological Seminary
1977 transfer to United Methodist Church
1977-84 Benton
1984-93 Hunlock Creek (ending 12/12/1993)
1993 transfer to United Presbyterian Church (12/12/1993)
2012-24 Forty Fort and Stella
Note:
William N. Lukesh was pastor at Forty Fort when it closed in 2024.
LUTZ, LARRY K.
Born: 12-26-1942 Marysville PA married: Deborah Carter Hutmacher
Died: 11-26-2019 Mechanicsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 420
1973 license, recommended by Marysville Bethany
1973 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment: Waggoners UMC Cemetery, Sumberland County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 339
1973-76 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1976-80 Gaines Galeton
1980-82 Wrightsville Locust Street
1982-86 on leave
1986-95 North Towanda
1994-95 Liberty
Corners & French Asylum
1995-05 Burnham yoked parish
2005 retired
MACKEY, JASON R.
Born: married: Christy _____
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Charlton
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2007-08 Harrisburg Stevens Emmanuel
(beginning 8/27/2007, ending 1/15/2008)
2008-15 Harrisburg Crosspoint (beginning
1/15/2008)
2015-18 Hummelstown Trinity
2018-20 director, Susquehanna Conference
connectional ministries (ending 12/31/2019)
2020-23 benefits administrator, Susquehanna
Conference (beginning 1/1/2020)
MACKEY, JOHN F.
Born: married: Alison _____
Died: obit:
2016 license, recommended by Middletown Evangelical
2018 provisional elder
2020 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2016-20 Claysburg
2020-23 Clarks Summit
MACKEY-WISOR, WILLIAM T.
Born: married: Mary Anne _____
Died: obit:
1981 ordained deacon
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1981-82 student, Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
1982-85 Manor Hill
1985-90 Nescopeck
1990-91 on leave
1991-15 located
2015-18 Watson Memorial Chapel, Virginia Conference
2018 retired
MADISON, EVELYN L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Duncansville Hicks Memorial
2007 provisional elder
2010 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2005-07 student, Wesley Theological Seminary
in Washington DC
2005-07 East
Freedom
2007-10 Altoona Fifth Avenue Jaggard
2010-20 Altoona Wehnwood
2020-23 Roaring Spring
MAIFAIR, LINDA L.
Born: married: George Maifair
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Carlisle Grace
Interment:
Obit:
2007-20 Mt. Rock
2020 retired
2020-21 Mt.
Rock
2022-23 Mt.
Victory (beginning 8/1/2022 and ending 10/1/2022)
2023 discontinued
(1/3/2023)
Note:
Linda Maifair served as a local pastor.
MANN, BRYAN LYNN
Born: married: Cindy _____
Died: obit:
1991 license, recommended by Morgan Run
2001 provisional elder
2004 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-98 associate, Howard cooperative parish
1998-15 Mt. Victory
2015-20 Jacobus
2020-23 Waggoners
2024 withdrawn
(11/02/2023)
MARSH, ROBERT J.
Born: married: Amy _____
Died: obit:
2008 license
2017 provisional elder
2020 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2008-12 associate, Millerstown
2012-16 Rouzerville
2016-18 Greencastle First
2018-23 Bedford
2023 disaffiliated
MARUSKIN, JOAN M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1992 license, recommended by Stewartstown
1995 ordained deacon
1998 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-00 Yoe Christ (ending 1/1/2000)
2000 on leave (beginning 1/1/2000 and
ending 9/1/2000)
2000-07 Church World Service (beginning
9/1/2000 and ending 12/31/2006)
2007 executive director, York County
Council of Churches (1/1/2007 12/4/2007)
2007-12 national program advisor, World
Church Services (12/24/2007 9/1/2012)
2012 retired
MASON, ROSAMOND BELINDA
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1991 license, recommended by Selinsgrove Christ
1993 ordained deacon
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1991-93 Union circuit
1993-00 Three Springs
200006 New Bloomfield
2006-13 Lewistown First
2009-13 Lewistown
Lake Park
2013 retired
MASTIN, CHRISTINE C.
Born: married: Allen Mastin
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by West Decatur Calvary
Interment:
Obit:
2007-08 New Millport
2008-11 Mt. Zion OShanter (ending 8/1/2011)
2011-14 Felton
2014-17 Five Star Parish [Austinburg, Brookfield, Cowanesque, Knoxville, Westfield)
2017-20 White Deer
2020 retired
MAUK, GEORGE ROGER
Born: married: Patricia _____
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by Roaring Spring Trinity
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-85 Hopewell-Dudley
1985-89 Bellwood Calvary
1989-93 Sugar Creek Parish
1993-94 Waynesboro Peace
1994-00 Sunbury St. Johns
2000-06 Altoona Juniata Gethsemane
2004-06 Altoona
Asbury
2006 retired
2006-08 Mines-Royer
MAURER, THOMAS AMBROSE
Born: married: Louise _____
Died: obit:
1974 license, recommended by Hegins St. Johns
1974 ordained deacon
1978 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1974-81 Allenport Shiurleysburg Singers
Gap
1981-90 McConnellstown
1990-98 associate director, Conference
Council on Ministries
1998-06 Linglestown
2006-12 Carlisle Allison
2012-15 Hummelstown Trinity
2015 retired
MAY, CARVEL KENNETH
Born: married: Karen _____
Died: obit:
1997 license, recommended by Riverside St. Peters
2007 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1997-00 Paxtonville Penns Creek
2000-23 Hummels St. Lukes
2000-06 Paxtonville St. Lukes (ending 3/1/2006)
2024 discontinued (1/10/2024)
MAY, GEORGE PHILIP
Born: married: Sue _____
Died: obit:
1969 license, recommended by Mill Creek
1981 ordained deacon
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1970-71 Wayne-Ryde
1971-76 Newton Hamilton
1976-80 student, Oklahoma City University
1980-83 student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY
1983-85 Robertsdale (beginning 6/1/1983)
1985-90 Turkey Valley
1990-96 Port Trevorton
1996-00 approved evangelist (ending 12/31/2000)
2000 retired (12/31/2000)
McCABE, TODD J.
Born: married: Alyson _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Muncy
Interment:
Obit:
2015-17 Lake Como
2017-19 Dalton Factoryville
2019-23 Clearfield Trinity
2022-23 Mt.
Joy (beginning 1/1/2023)
2023- Altoona Greenwood - Tipton
McCACHREN, KAREN L.
Born: married: David McCachren
Died: obit:
1998 license, recommended by Lewistown First
2003 ordained deacon in full connection
Interment:
Obit:
1998-09 director of caring ministries, Lewistown First
2009-23 visitation pastor, Lewistown Grace
9005-15 pastoral care, Lewistown Lake Park (ending 12/31/2015)
McCALLLIPS, EUGENE W.
Born: married: Cheryl Ann _____
Died: obit:
1979 license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
1980 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-82 associate, Lewistown Grace
1982-87 Thompsontown
1987-99 Middlesex
1999-19 Fairbrook
2019 retired
2024 withdrawn
(2/14/2024)
McCLEARY, DENNIS L.
Born: married: Jean _____
Died: obit:
1997 license, recommended by Stewartstown
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1995-99 Potosi Mt. Zion
1999-13 Mt. Nebo Mt. Olivet
2013-17 York Bethany
2017-22 Mt. Gilead (ending 12/31/2021)
2022 retired (1/1/2022)
2024 discontinued (3/18/2024)
McCLEARY, DONALD STEWART
Born: 4-17-1926 Harrisburg PA married: Evelyn Larue Johnson
Died: 7-16-2009 Sinking Spring PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 484
married2: Doris Jean Alsedek
license, obit2:
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Saint Michaels Cemetery, Birdsboro PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 170
Central New York Conference
1981 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1981-89 chaplain, Cumberland County Nursing Home and Prison (beginning 6/1/1981)
1989 retired
McCRACKEN, DENNIS L.
Born: married: Patricia _____
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Goshen
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2004-12 Ramey (beginning 8/2004)
2012-16 Berwick Calvary St. Pauls (ending
4/24/2016)
2016-25 medical leave (beginning 4/24/2016)
McCULLOUGH, DAVID PAUL
Born: married: Norma Jean _____
Died: obit:
1967 license, recommended by Hellam Fairmont
1972 ordained deacon
1975 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1966-67 Barts
1967-78 Chestnut Grove
1978-85 Clearfield Centre Grove
1985-92 Bellefonte Faith
1992-06 York Asbury
2006-10 Montoursville Faith
2010 retired
2011-12 Middletown Wesley (ending 9/30/2012)
McDOWELL, DAVID EDWARD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1987 license, recommended by Stewartstown
1999 ordained deacon in full connection
Interment:
Obit:
1987-97 minister of youth and outreach, Stewartstown
1997-23 minister of music, Stewartstown
McELWEE, DAVID R.A.
Born: married: Samantha N. Torgersen
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Chambersburg Park Avenue
2019 provisional elder
2022 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2013-24 Harrisburg New Hope
2014-15 Freysville
2015-18 McElhatten
2018-22 East Salem Otterbein
2022-24 Clearfield West Side (ending
12/24/2024)
2024 withdrew 12/24/2024
Note:
David R.A. McElwee is married to Samantha E. McElwee and is the son of Ronald
S. McElwee of the Central Pennsylvania Conference ME files.
McELWEE, SAMANTHA (TORGERSEN)
Born: married: David R.A. McElwee
Died: obit:
2013 license
Interment:
Obit:
2013-15 Pleasant Waters [Windsor Pleasant Grove, Waters Edge
2015-18 Woolrich Community
2018-24 Laurelton (ending 12/31/2024)
2024 discontinued 12/31/2024
Note:
Samantha McElwee is married to David R.A. McElwee.
McGEE, JHAMES F.
Born: married: Michelle _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Hughesville Bethany
Interment:
Obit:
2014-23 Five Mountain [Hunlock Creek, Muhlenburg, Shickshinny First]
McGEE, REBECCA J.
Born: married: Mark McGee
Died: obit:
2010 provisional elder, recommended by Bellefonte Faith
2018 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2010-14 Painter Quinby, Virginia Conference
2014-15 Atlantic New Church, Virginia
Conference
2015 on leave (ending 8/17/2015)
2015-16 clinical pastoral education, Hershey
Medical Center (8/17/2015 8/31/2016)
2016-22 associate, State College St. Pauls
(beginning 9/1/2016)
2022-23 Winterstown
McGRATH, HOWARD DIXON JR.
Born: 5-21-1925 Wooster OH married:
Died: 5-17-1994 obit:
married2: Ann _____
obit2:
Interment: [cremated, ashes scattered in several favorite
locations]
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 483
? Dauphin (9 months)
Note:
H. Dixon McGrath Jr. is the don of Howard Dixon McGrath (1897-1965) of the New
York Conference. He served as a lay
pastor.
McKENZIE, SCOTT V.
Born: married: Joni _____
Died: obit:
1978 license, recommended by Jacobus Christ
1981 ordained deacon
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-80 student, Messish College
1978-80 Mount
Zion
1980-83 student, United Theological Seminary
1983-84 associate, Chambersburg St. Paul
1984-90 Mount Union First
1990-91 student, Duquesne University
1990-91 Glassport,
Western Pennsylvania Conference
1991 transfer to Western Pennsylvania
Conference
1991-96 conference staff
1991-93 Glassport
1996 on leave (3/14/1996 9/12/1996)
1996-08 Cargill Associates
2008 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2008-23 Horizons Stewardship
McMICHAEL, NICHOLAS S.
Born: married: Angela _____
Died: obit:
2017 license, recommended by Enola Mt. Zion
Interment:
Obit:
2017-21 Lake Winola
2021-23 unappointed
McNEAL, WILLIAM
Born: married: Janet _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Milesburg
2007 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
2000-02 Unityville
2002-11 Fairmont
2011-17 York Springs
2017-21 Milton Bethany
2021 retired
2022 withdrew
(7/5/2022)
2024 discontinued (1/10/2024)
McREYNOLDS, PAUL R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 State College Albright Bethune
2020-21 Park
Forest Village
McTAVISH, WILLIAM B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Mt. Hope West Decatur
MEEKER, KAREN LYNN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1992 ordained deacon, recommended by Town Hill
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-94 student, Harvard Divinity School
1994-97 Half Moon and Ross-Fillmore
(beginning 9/1/1994)
1997-23 chaplain, US Army
MELLOTT, DOUGLAS W.
Born: married: Jennifer _____
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
Interment:
Obit:
2008-19 Runville
2019-22 Hughesville The Beacon
2022-23 East Salem Otterbein
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Douglass W. Mellott served as a local pastor.
MENCH, NOREEN BENDER
Born: married: Larry Mench
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 345
1984 ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle Allison
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1984-04 student, Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary
1987-88 Mt Airy Mt. Zion
1988-96 Cumberland
1996-97 Barnitz Mt. Zion
1997-03 on leave
2003 retired
MENTZER, ROGER HERMAN
Born: married: Catherine _____
Died: obit:
1980 ordained deacon, recommended by Shiremanstown
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1980-81 student, Garrett-Evangelical Seminary
1981-88 associate, Carlisle Allison
1988-96 Waynesboro Christ
1996-01 superintendent, York District
2001-21 Dallastown Bethlehem
2021 retired
2022-23 Pleasureville
(beginning 8/28/2022)
MERCADO, KATHRYN R.
Born: married: Luis A. Mercado Sr.
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 270
1995 license, recommended by York First Spanish
Interment:
Obit:
1995-97 York Christ Hope Community
1997-01 York Town and Country
2001-11 Beavertown
2011-15 West Snyder
2015 retired
2015-23
Mountain View & West Snyder
MERZ, ALBERT
Born: 10-26-1910 Pittsburgh PA married: Catherine O. Lamer
Died: 8-04-1997 Blandon PA obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2011, 352
1938 license, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
1943 ordained deacon
1944 ordained elder
Interment: Berks County Memorial Gardens, Fleetwood PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1998,
1934-36 Cookport
1938-44 Fairall circuit
1944-46 chaplain, US Army
1946-51 Brave circuit
1951-69 chaplain, US Army
1969-73 Brave circuit
1973 retired
1976-82 (beginning 1/1/1977) Lemasters, Central Pennsylvania Conference
MESSNER, MARK R.
Born: married: Alison _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Grantville St. Johns
2006 provisional elder
2010 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2005-09 Lycoming parish
2009-14 Laurelton
2014-19 Centre Hall
2019-20 Milton St. Andrews
2020-22 on leave
2022 withdrew under complain
(11/28/2022)
MEYER, MARIANNE
Born: married: Thomas Meyer
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-21 Waverly (6/1/2020 8/31/2021)
2021 unappointed (9/1/2021
11/30/2021)
2021-23 Waverly (beginning 12/1/2021)
2022-23 Clarks
Green
MILINOVICH, GREGORY A.
Born: married: Shannon _____
Died: obit:
2002 license, Greater New Jersey Conference
2005 provisional elder, Greater New Jersey Conference
2008 ordained, Greater New Jersey Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2002-06 associate, Toms River First
2006-10 associate, Clinton
2010-13 Sunbury Catawissa Avenue, Susquehanna
Conference
2013 transfer to Susquehanna
Conference
2013-16 Sunbury Catawissa Avenue
2016-23 State College St. Pauls
MILLER, ADAM W.
Born: married: Lauren _____
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Jersey Shore Trinity
2022 provisional elder
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2013-16 Trout Run (ending 1/2/2016)
2016-23 Catawissa Parish (beginning 1/2/2016)
[Kulp, Roaring Creek Valley]
MILLER, CALVIN J.
Born: married: Trina _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Sunbury St. Johns
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-02 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd (ending
4/30/2002)
2002-03 unappointed (5/1/2002 5/31/2003)
2003-12 Benton and Waller (beginning
6/1/2003)
2012-20 Buffalo Run [renamed Greater Buffalo
Run Valley]
2020-24 Claysburg
MILLER, DAVID SCOTT
Born: married: Jill _____
Died: obit:
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Harrisburg Calvary
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-91 Allenport
1991-98 Altoona Greenwood
1998-99 Selinsgrove Christ (ending 5/1/1999)
1999-01 on leave (beginning 5/1/1999)
2001-09 Chestnut Grove
2009 retired
MILLER, EDDIE DARRYL DEAN
Born: married: Cheryl _____
Died: obit:
1973 ordained deacon, recommended by _____ Grace
1976 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-79 Loganville
1979-86 Danville St. Pasuls-Emmanuel
1986-93 Dover Otterbein
1993-97 Balls Mills
1997-05 Lewisberry
2005-08 Asercare Hospice
2007-08 Emigsville Otterbein
2008 retired
2008-12 Emigsville Otterbein
MILLER, FRANKLIN NELSON
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1995 license, recommended by Reading St. Matthews
1996 ordained deacon
1998 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1995-04 Jefferson Greenmount
2004-10 Altoona 58th Street
[re-named Christ Community]
2010-13 Chambers Hill
2013-18 Pleasureville
2018-23 East Prospect
MILLER, GERALD R.
Born: married: Leslie _____
Died: obit:
2006 license (12/1/2006), recommended by Richfield
Interment:
Obit:
2006-07 Richfield (beginning 12/1/2006)
2007-08 Dresslers Ridge
2008-23 Arch Rock
2020-23 East Waterford Faith
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Gerald R. Miller served as a local pastor.
MILLER, RODNEY KEITH
Born: married: Elizabeth _____
Died: obit:
1977 ordained deacon, recommended by Trinity New Cumberland
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-79 Millerton Daggett
1979-81 Almeda Espy
1981-83 North Bens
1983-90 Montgomery
1990-92 Union Deposit
1992-97 Marysville Bethany
1997-04 Mount Calvary
1997-98 Manada Hill
2004-13 Nescopeck Wesley
2004-10 Nescopeck Albright (ending 12/29/2010)
2013 retired
2018-19 Summerdale
(beginning 1/1/2019)
2022-23 Millersburg
Hebron County Line
MILLER, SCOTT O.
Born: married: Lisa _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Countryside Community
Interment:
Obit:
2015-16 associate, Countryside Community
2016-18 Scranton St. Pauls
2018-19 associate, Mechanicsburg Aldersgate
2019-23 Wapwallopen New Hope
MILLER, SHARON K.
Born: married: Jon Miller
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Chestnut Grove
2003 provisional elder
2007 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2003-04 Leesburg
2004 on leave (ending 12/1/2004)
2004-05 New Cumberland Trinity (beginning
12/2/2004)
2005-09 Lewisberry
2009-11 on leave (ending 1/1/2011)
2011 Mechanicsburg Aldersgate
(1/1/2011 8/31/2011)
2011-12 Camp Hill (beginning 9/1/2011)
2012-14 on leave (ENDING 4/8/2014)
2014-21 minister to homebound, Campo Hill
(4/8/2014 9/29/2021)
2021 retired (9/30/2021)
MILLER, TRINA J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2023- McKee
Note:
Trina J. Miller served as a certified lay servant
MILLS, CARL EDWARD
Born: 4-9-1925 Buffalo NY married: Betty Jane Haase
Died: 10-13-2011 Sunbury PA obit: [7/1/1928 3/4/2015]
1956 license, recommended by New Platz, New York Conference
1959 ordained deacon
1961 ordained elder
Interment: Greenfield Cemetery, Uniondale NY
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 299
1957-59 Pleasant Valley, New York Conference
1959 transfer to South New England Conference
1959-62 Turner Falls MA Grace
1962-68 Southwick MA Christ
1968-70 Philmont, New York Conference
1970-73 ?
1973-74 Spencer MA
1974 transfer to Virginia Conference
1974-75 Middleburg Center Parish
1975 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1975-77 Enders Powells Valley (ending 9/1/1976)
1977-82 White Deer
1982-83 Craley New Bridgeville
1983-84 Houserville
1984-85 State College Parish
1985-87 Houserville Woodycrest
1987-88 Montandon Milton St. Peters
1988 retired
MILLS, MAXINE RUTH
Born: married: Randall Mills
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Wellsboro
1994 ordained deacon
1997 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1993-94 Big Pond
1994-96 student, Colgate-Rochester Divinity
School
1996-02 Morris, Blackwell and Mt. Pleasant
2002-04 South Williamsport and South
Williamsport Grace
2004 retired
MINELLA, LAURA E. (STEWART)
Born: married: Christopher Minella
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Duboistown
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2006-14 Fort Louden Edenville
2014- Mechanicsburg Hope
MINNICK, WANDA L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Penbrook Grace
Interment:
Obit:
2008-19 Oval
2019-20 Berwick Bower Memorial St. Pauls
(ending 5/31/2020)
2020 retired (6/1/2020)
MINNIX, MICHAEL VERNON
Born: married: Wendy _____
Died: obit:
1975 license, recommended by Hummelstown Trinity
1975 ordained deacon
1978 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1975-77 student, Duke Divinity School in
Durham NC
1977-82 associate, Lemoyne Grace (ending
10/31/1982)
1982-92 Fishing Creek Salem (beginning
11/1/1982)
1992-98 Carlisle First
1998-04 superintendent, Chambersburg District
2004-15 Mechanicsburg First
2015 retired
2016-17 Steelton
Centenary
2019-22 Harrisburg
Grace
MITCHELL, BRENDA D.
Born: married: Farley Mitchell
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Airville Salem
Interment:
Obit:
2006-16 Sugar Valley
2016 retired
2023
disaffiliated
Note:
Brenda D. Mitchell served as a local pastor.
MOLTER, GREGORY L.
Born: married: Theresa _____
Died: obit:
married2: Kelly _____
2009 license, recommended by Hendrickson obit2:
Interment:
Obit:
2009-23 Danville St. Pauls Emmanuel
2021-23 Riverside
MONTGOMERY, ARTHUR L.
Born: married: Gwyn _____
Died: obit:
1972 license, recommended by Wesley Selinsgrove
1972 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-77 Benton
1977-83 Lewisberry
1983-86 Tyrone Christ
1986-87 on leave
1987-90 Millerstown
1990-93 on leave
1993-95 associate, Juniata parish
1995-99 Millerstown
1999-01 located (ending 9/1/2001)
2001-10 Mt. Gilead (beginning 9/1/2001)
2010 retired
2012-13 Middleburg
Trinity (1/1/2012 5/31/2013)
MONTGOMERY, GLORIA J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Towanda First
Interment:
Obit:
2014-16 Silvara
2016-20 Bellwood
2020-23 Osceola Sandy Ridge
MONTGOMERY, JEAN R.
Born: married: Francis Montgomery
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Columbia Crossroads
Interment:
Obit:
2004-17 North Towanda
2017 retired
MOORE, LEE EDWIN JR.
Born: 6-2-1934 Lewistown PA married: Rosann Hope Zook
Died: 5-15-2020 Belleville PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 288
1987 license, recommended by Grace Lewistown
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 340
1987-93 Penns Valley (beginning 9/15/1987)
1993-96 Milroy (ending 3/1/1996)
1996-04 Valley parish (beginning 3/1/1996)
[St. Marks, Salem, Shrader]
2004 retired
2005-08 Lewistown
Grace (ending 12/31/2008)
Note:
Ed Moore worked as a chef and vo-tech instructor before entering the ministry.
MOORE, PHILIP G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1982 ordained deacon, recommended by San Raphael CA Aldersgate
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1981-84 Fawn Grove
1984-87 Altoona Grace
1987-89 Bald Eagle
1989-95 on leave
1995-23 administrative location
MORGAN, ANDREW ROBERT
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1994 ordained deacon, recommended by Niantic CT Community Church
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1993-01 Altoona Second Avenue
1995-01 Altoona Pleasant Valley
2001-08 Lewisburg St. Pauls
2008-23 Bellefonte Faith
MORGAN, CALVIN F.
Born: 9-15-1939 Ravine PA married: Michele C. Morgan (8/11/1962)
Died: 7-28-2015 Pine Grove PA obit:
1994 license, recommended by Genesee/Ulysses
Interment: Saint Matthews Lutheran Cemeterym Pine Grove PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 266
1994-97 Penns Creek
1997-00 Paxtonville/Penns Creek larger parish
2000-07 Paxtonville
2007 retired
Note:
Calvin F. Morgan served as a high school teacher and principal before entering
the ministry.
MORNINGSTAR, JONATHAN D.
Born: married: Amanda _____
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Lewistown Rhodes Memorial
2016 provisional elder
2018 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2012-13 Rebersburg
2013-18 Breezewood Wesley Chapel
2018-23 McConnellstown Mill Creek
2023- Clearfield Trinity Centre Grove
Note:
Jonathan D. Morningstar is the son of Thomas B. Morningstar.
MORNINGSTAR, THOMAS BRITT
Born: married: Carol _____
Died: obit:
1975 ordained deacon, recommended by Huntingdon 15th Street
1978 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1975-77 Harrisonville
1977-80 Liberty
1980-92 Williamsport Heshbon Park
1982-92 Eagle
1992-14 Yeagertown
2014 retired
Note:
Thomas B. Morningstar is the father of Jonathan D. Morningstar.
MORRIS, JAY ALLEN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1984 ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport St. Paul
1987 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1984-85 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1985-91 Middleburg Parish
1991-96 Dellville
1996-00 Bigler (ending 2/1/2000)
2000-07 East Canton (beginning 2/1/2000)
2007-10 Belleville
2010-13 Balls Mills
2013-15 Mehoopany
2015-16 Bellwood Trinity and Tipton
2016 retired
MORRIS, RICHARD MICHAEL
Born: married: Jennifer _____
Died: obit:
1990 ordained deacon
1994 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1990-91 student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY
1991-01 Allenport
2001-23 Duncansville Hicks Memorial
2023 disaffiliated
MOSER, JANELLE M.
Born: married: George Moser
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Salladasburg
2021-23 Lawrenceville
2024 discontinued (3/18/2024)
MOUL, MICHAEL STEPHEN
Born: 7-23-1950 married: Deborah Heisley
Died: 5-14-2008 obit:
married2: Marianne Bredbenner [1/21/1984]
1974 license, recomd by Marysville Bethany obit2: [4/6/1960 - ]
1977 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1974-80 Enders Powells Valley
1980-83 Monroeton
1983-89 Mifflinville
1989-91 Mifflinburg St. Pauls
1991 withdrew
moved to Austin TX
Note:
Michael S. Moul was married to Deborah Heisley-Cato.
MOYER, BRIAN M.
Born: married: Jerrie _____
Died: obit:
2014 license
Interment:
Obit:
2014-18 Susquehanna Valley
2018-21 Jersey Shore Trinity
2021-23 Pine Creek Charge [Avis Jersey
Shore Trinity]
2024-25 on medical leave
MOYER, CHRISTINA D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2022-23 Mechanicsburg Wesley
MOYER, JEAN W.
Born: married: Charles Moyer
Died: obit:
1983 ordained, recommended by Pleasant Gap
Interment:
Obit:
1982-89 Orangeville
1989-92 Oriole
1992-00 Montoursville Bethel
2000 retired
MOYER, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 11-13-1919 Shamokin PA married: Betty Jean Kerstetter
Died: 10-23-2001 Harrisburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 272
1949 license, recommended by Shamokin St. Johns
1954 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference (EV)
Interment: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 365
Obit: Indiantown Gap Memorial Cemetery, Indiantown Gap PA
1949-53 Port Carbon Grace
1953-54 Lehighton Big Creek Middle Creek
1954-56 Lehighton Big Creek Weissport
1956-58 Mt. Carmel St. Paul
1958-69 Sunbury Albright
1969-70 Middletown Evangelical
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference by boundary change
1970-76 Middletown Evangelical
1976-81 Harrisburg Mount Calvary
1981-85 York Grace
1985 retired
MUGRIDGE, FRANK JEFFERY
Born: married: Evelyn _____
Died: obit:
1976 ordained deacon, recommended by Millheim St. Lukes
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-79 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1979-82 York Christ
1982-84 Shermans Dale
1984-86 associate, Coudersport Larger Parish
(ending 11/1/1986)
1986-91 on leave (beginning 11/1/1986)
1991-94 Laurelton (ending 11/20/1994)
1994-18 disability leave
1997-16 Penns
Valley (beginning 11/20/1997)
2018 retired
2022-23 Laurelton
Lincoln Chapel (ending 2/25/2023)
MUMMERT, DONALD EDWARD
Born: 3-23-1939 York PA married: Sara Elizabeth Alfano
Died: 11-27-2008 Milton PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 299
1971 license, recommended by Mount Wolf Otterbein
1974 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1971-74 Trout Run (ending 1/1974)
1974-79 Jefferson Greenmount (beginning
1/1974)
1979-84 Northumberland Trinity
1984-95 Winfield Trinity
1995-04 Spry Otterbein
2004 retired
MUNRO, PARRISH V.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Pine Grove McAlisterville
2024-25 on medical leave (beginning 3/1/2024)
MURPHY, PAUL CUTHBERT
Born: 9-8-1945 Pittsburgh PA married: Anne _____
Died: 1-20-2023 obit:
1969 license, recommended by French Creek Association, PA Baptist Convention
1970 ordained, American Baptist Church
Interment: White Haven Memorial Park, Pittsford NY
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 361
1975-77 Elkland
1977-81 associate, York Fourth
1981-84 Middleburg Trinity
1982-92 Shermans Dale
1992-99 Hummels Wharf Christ Community
1999-06 Montoursville Faith
2006-08 Red Lion St. Pauls
2008 retired
MURR, JAMES MUSE
Born: married: Joanne _____
Died: obit:
1952 license, recommended by Thomasville NC Memorial Methodist
1959 ordained deacon, Western North Carolina Conference
1961 ordained elder, Western North Carolina Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1952-56 student, Davidson College
1956-59 student, Duke Divinity School in Durham NC
1957-59 assistant, Durham Carr
1959-61 Bethany Cotton Grove
1961-62 Hickory Ridge
1962 transfer to Virginia Conference
1962-69 chaplain, Roanoke Memorial Hospital
1969-70 student chaplain, Richmond Memorial Hospital
1970 transfer to Iowa Conference
1970-71 chaplain, Iowa Methodist Hospital
1971 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1971-97 chaplain, York Hospital
1997 retired
MYERS,
GREGORY C.
Born:
married:
Deborah _____
Died:
obit:
1971 admitted on trial, recommended by Red Lion
Bethany
1971 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1971-73 student, United Theological Seminary
1973-76 associate Carlisle Grace
1976-81 Enola Mt. Zion
1981-86 chaplain, Wyoming Seminary (ending
3/1986)
1986 Courtdale, Wyoming Conference
(2/1986 6/31/1986)
1987 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1987-98 Honesdale
1998-04 Kingston, Church of Christ Uniting
2004-10 superintendent, Wilkes-Barre District
2010 transfer to Susquehanna
Conference by boundary change
2010-11 superintendent, Wilkes-Barre District
2011 retired
MYERS, RUTH (LOYER)
Born: married: Luke Myers
Died: obit:
2015 provisional deacon, recommended by Red Lion St. Pauls
2018 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
2015 Hampton Family Practice Central UMC, Virginia Conference (ending 9/1/2015)
2015-22 Mercy Health Ada First UMC, West Ohio Conference (9/1/2015 3/4/2022)
2022-24 Quad Med, West Ohio Conference (beginning 3/4/2022, ending 12/24/2024)
2024 withdrew 12/24/2024
Note: Ruth Myers is a sister to Kenneth M. Loyer.
MYERS, WILLIAM HERMAN III
Born: married: Kari
Died: obit:
1994 ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle Allison
1997 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-97 Salladasburg
1997-03 Millersburg Hebron
2003-07 Dover Bethany
2007-09 Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar (ending
6/20/2009)
2009- leave of absence (beginning
6/20/2009)
MYFELT. BRIAN L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2010 license, recommended by Daggett
2011 provisional elder
2016 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2010-22 Newton Hamilton
2019-22 Allenport
2022-25 Richfield Mt. Zion (ending
1/9/2025)
2025 discontinued 1/9/2025
NAUTA, CHRISTOPHER R.
Born: married: Rebecca _____
Died: obit:
2008 license
2010 provisional elder
2017 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2008-17 Sugar Creek parish
2017-22 Duncannon
2022-23 Red Lion St. Pauls
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
NEAL, BARRY ELVEY
Born: married: Sandra _____
Died: obit:
1991 ordained deacon, recommended by Altoona Trinity
1995 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-96 Woodland Area parish
1996-99 Claysburg
1999-06 Williamsburg
2006- Tyrone Christ
NEISWENDER, JOHN A.
Born: married: Lori _____
Died: obit:
2017 license
Interment:
Obit:
2017-19 Trout Run
2019-20 unappointed
2020-23 Muncy Valley
2022-23 Laporte
2024 discontinued (6/30/2024)
NELSON, DONALD PATRICK
Born: married: Sandra _____
Died: obit:
1980 license, recommended by Montgomery First
1987 ordained deacon
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1980-83 Union circuit
1983-85 Jefferson Greenmount
1985-87 Robertsdale
1987-90 Farragut Fairfield
1990-94 Sugar Valley
1994-96 Bellwood Pinecroft
1996-01 Osceola Mills
2001-05 Milesburg Curtin
2005 Oval (ending 9/11/2005)
2005-11 incapacity leave (beginning
9/11/2005)
2011 retired
NELSON, KATHY S. (HARVEY)
Born: married: Hillary Nelson
Died: obit:
2003 provisional elder, recommended by York Bethlehem
2006 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2003-08 Glen Rock Immanuel (ending 10/6/2008)
2008-13 staff, Lancaster Theological Seminary
(beginning 10/6/2018)
2013-18 Martinsville Salem
2018- director, Center for Spiritual
Formation
NESBITT, GEORGE MORGAN JR
Born: 7-14-1931 Johnstown PA married: Nancy J. Henderson
Died: 5-6-2014 Elysburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 361
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport St. Johns
1988 ordained elder
Interment: Jacobs Cemetery, Line Mountain PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 262
1985-90 Shickshinny
1990-94 Towanda First
1994 retired
1997-98 Nescopeck
Albright
1999-00 Nescopeck
Albright
Note:
George M. Nesbitt served as a Lutheran minister for 7 years and as a
rehabilitation officer for 16 years before entering the United Methodist
ministry,
NESTLERODE, SHARON G.
Born: married: Gene Nestlerode
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Clintondale
Interment:
Obit:
2008- Farrandsville
NETT, ANGELA M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-20 Forge Hill (beginning 5/32/2020)
2020-23 Windsor Emmanuel
2023-24 Wellsville parish
NEUBAUM, WANDA J.
Born: c1964 married: John Neubaum
Died: obit:
1997 license, recommended by Yoe Christ
2008 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-08 Bittersville
2008-09 Altoona East End
2009-10 not appointed
2010 discontinued 3/12/2020
Note:
In 2022, Wanda J. Neubaum appears to be living in Dallastown PA
NEWHOUSE, DeANN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Wormleysburg St. Pauls
Interment:
Obit:
2012-16 Valley UM parish
2016-20 Sideling Hill
2020-23 Clearfield Centre Grove
2021-23 Curwensville
NEWTON, CRAIG A. SR.
Born: 9-19-1931 Burlington VT married: Linda F. _____
Died: 1-10-2021 York PA obit:
1992 license, recommended by Bower Memorial
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 364
1992-00 Windsor Emmanuel
2000 retired
2002-17 York Otterbein
Note: Craig Newton has a PhD in history and for many years
was on the faculty at Bloomsburg University.
NICHOLAS, MARCY HELEN
Born: married: Frederick C. Haag
Died: obit:
2005 provisional elder, recommended by York Fairmount
2008 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2003-05 York City
2005-10 Adamsville and Yoe
2010-14 associate, Harrisburg Grace
2014-16 New Cumberland Community (ending 7/31/2016)
2016- on leave (beginning 8/1/2016)
NOGGLE, RICHARD LEE
Born: married: Phyllis _____
Died: obit:
1992 license, recommended by Enola Good Shepherd
Interment:
Obit:
1992-99 Enola Grace
1999-15 Troy First
2006-15 Windfall and Faith (Wetona/Big Pond)
2015 retired
2015-16 New Oxford Emory
2016-17 Liverpool
2017-21 Good Shepherd Community (ending 8/31/2021)
NOLL, RICHARD ALAN
Born: married: Karen _____
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Waynesboro Faith
1979 ordained deacon
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-81 student, Methesco Seminary in Delaware OH
1981-84 Orbisonia
1984-03 Pine Grove
2003-06 Lewistown First
2006-17 Chambersburg St. Paul
2017 retired
2018-19 Gettysburg
2022-23 Rouzerville Ortanna
NORMAN, PAUL E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1968 license, recommended by Rodgers Forge
Interment:
Obit:
1968-69 Sonestown
1969-70 Dushore
1970 no longer listed
Note: Paul E. Norman appears to have associated with the
Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination.
NORTON, FRANCIS H.
Born: married: Novia _____
Died: obit:
2000 commissioned
2001 deacon in full connection
Interment:
Obit:
2000-04 associate, Shippensburg Messiah
2004 retired
NOSS, ROGER C. JR
Born: married: Colleen _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Shickshinny First
Interment:
Obit:
2013-23 Nanticoke First
2013- Ashley Centenary (beginning 6/13/2013 and ending 6/1/2016)
2015- West Nanticoke Calvary (ending 6/1/2016)
2016-23 McKendree (beginning 6/1/2016)
2016-23 Oakdale (beginning 6/1/2016)
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Riger C. Noss served as a local pastor.
Born: married: P. Samuel OBrien
Died: obit:
license, recommended by Shippensburg Messiah
1986 ordained deacon
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-87 assistant, Shippensburg Messiah
1987-97 York Haven
1997-10 Blue Mountain (Bloserville St. Marys, Mount Hope, West Hill)
2010 retired
2010-14 Cumberland charge (beginning 1/10/2010)
2015-17 Good
Shepherd Community (beginning 11/15/2015)
OBRIEN, R. MICHAEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1991-92 Williamsport Newberry (beginning 8/18/1991)
Note:
R. Michael OBrien served as a supply pastor while a member of the Western
North Carolina Conference and serving as Dean of Student Services at Lycoming.
OBRZUT, LUCY
Born: married: Mark E. Obrzut Jr.
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Luzerne
2021-22 Courtdale Larksville (ending 5/31/2022)
Note: Luzy Obrzut is married to Mark E. Obrzut
OBRZUT, MARK E. SR
Born: married: Lucy _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by West Pittston First
Interment:
Obit:
2014-20 East Benton
2020-21 unappointed
2021-23 Courtdale Larksville Luzerne
Note:
Mark E. Obrzut is married to Lucy Obrzut.
OGDEN, SCOTT RICHARD
Born: married: Shirley _____
Died: obit:
1991 ordained deacon, recommended by South Williamsport
1995 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-93 student, United Theological Seminary
1889-93 Yellow Springs, West Ohio Conference
1993-97 North Bend
1997-00 Fayetteville Otterbein
2000-02 Chambersburg St. Paul
2002-08 New Cumberland Community
2008-21 Coudersport Park
2019-21 Sweden Valley Faith
2021 retired
2024 withdrew 7/22/2024
OLAVIANY, TANYA
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Courtdale Larksville (beginning 5/1/2019)
2021-23 Eatonville Evans Falls
OLEWILER, WILLIAM SAMUEL
Born: married: Katharine _____
Died: obit:
1982 ordained deacon, recommended by Altoona Otterbein
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-85 Martinsburg
1985-95 Altoona Broad Avenue Schum Memorial
1995-98 Altoona Wehnwood
1998-08 Altoona East End
2008 retired
ORENDI, MICHAEL J.
Born: married: Deborah _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Westfield
Interment:
Obit:
2005-06 Trinity Parish (Brookfield Cowanesque Westfield)
2006-08 Fowlersville Lime Ridge (ending 11/20/2008)
2008- incapacity
leave (beginning 12/1/2008)
ORT, BONNIE L.
Born: married: William Ort
Died: obit:
2000 license, recommended by Red Mount
2002 provisional elder
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-02 Three Springs Parish
2002-06 Roxbury
2006-09 Cumberland Charge
2009-15 Paxton
2015-17 on leave
2017 retired
OSENBACH, THOMAS R.
Born: 5-9-1957 Pottsville PA married: Denise Lorraine Connelly
Died: 5-5-2019 York PA obit:
1981 ordained deacon, recommended by Lykens
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 341
1982-83 Trinity North
1983-88 Spring Run
1988-19 Bethlehem Stonepile Springvale (ending 5/5/2019)
OSIF, THOMAS MICHAEL
Born: married: Bonnie _____
Died: obit:
1988 license, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1989 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1989-91 Howard Parish
1991-98 Unionville Wingate
1998-99
1999-06 Bald Eagle Community
2006-14 Pleasant Gap
2014 retired
2015-17 West Antietam
2018-19 Waynesboro
Christ
OTTO, DENNIS LYNN
Born: married: Mona _____
Died: obit:
1979 ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle Grace
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-80 student, Princeton Theological Seminary
1980-83 Hegins Muir
1983-87 associate, York Asbury
1987-94 Mechanicsburg Grace
1994-08 Williamsport First
2008-12 superintendent, Altoona District
2012-17 director of congregational development, Susquehanna Conference
2017-18 Fishburn
2018-20 Shepherdstown
2020 retired
2021-22 Dallastown Bethlehem
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/25/2023)
OVERMAN, JOHN F. III
Born: married: Lynn _____
Died: obit:
1988 ordained deacon, recommended by Fort Atkinson WI First
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1996 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1996-02 associate, Camp Hill
2002-13 Middletown Ebenezer
2013-18 associate, Fishing Creek Salem
2018-23 Enola
Mt. Zion
OVERMILLER, ANN B.
Born: married: James Overmiller
Died: obit:
1998 license
Interment:
Obit:
1999-04 Wiconisco Calvary (ending 5/31/2004)
2004-23 Ralston (beginning 6/1/2004)
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Ann B. Overmiller served as a local pastor.
PAGE, THOMAS ARNOLD
Born: married: Mary Lou _____
Died: obit:
1968 license, recommended by Cheverly MD
1968 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1968-73 without appointment
1973-91 Upper Room, Nashville TN
1991-16 Dust and Ashes Music Ministry, Nashville TN
2016 retired
PAIRE, ROBERT M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2022-23 Dresslers Ridge
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Robert Paire served as a local preacher.
PANNEBAKER, CLARE L.
Born: married: Robin _____
Died: obit:
2006 license
Interment:
Obit:
2006-12 Hannah
2006-07 Black Oak
2012-23 Ramey
2023- Clearfield Mt. Joy Olanta Mt. Zion OShanter
PARKER, DALE EUGENE
Born: married: Tami _____
Died: obit:
1988 license, recommended by Chambers Hill
1989 ordained deacon
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-89 associate, York Aldersgate
1989-95 Bald Eagle Parish
1995-07 Fishburn
2007-08 Mechanicsburg Aldersgate
2008-19 Halifax
2019-23 York Aldersgate
PARKER, JAMES OTIS
Born:
married:
Lavonda _____
Died:
obit:
1976 license, recommended by Chambers Hill
1977 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1975-80 Shopes
1976-80 Stoverdale
1980-93 Millheim St. Lukes
1993-16 Marysville Wesley
2016-20 Manchester
2020 retired
PARKER, TIMOTHY R.
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
2015 license, recommended by Halifax
2016 provisional elder
2020 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2015-18 Roseville Mainesburg
2018-20 State College Mission Field
2020-22 Jefferson Greenmount
2022 on leave (ending 7/26/2022)
2022 withdrew (7/27/2022)
PARKS, STANLEY ARNOLD
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
1979 ordained deacon, recommended by York
Aldersgate
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-81 student, Lancaster Theological
Seminary
1981-86 Lewisberry New Bethel
1986-93 Gouldsboro, Wyoming Conference
1993-99 Everett
1999-18 Harrisburg Calvary
2018 retired
PARKS-SNYDER, JENNIFER M.
Born:
married:
Scott Snyder
Died:
obit:
2001 license
2006 provisional elder
2010 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2000-04 Powells Valley
2004-07 Caledonia Parish
2007-10 associate, Hollidaysburg
2010-21 Lightstreet
2018-21 assisting
elder, Lewisburg District
2021-23 Hershey First
Note:
Jennifer Parks-Snyder is the daughter of Lewis A. Parks of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference UMC.
PARLETT, LARRY WEBSTER
Born:
married:
Susan _____
Died:
obit:
2001 license, recommended by Stewartstown
Interment:
Obit:
1999-18 Potosi Mt. Zion (ending 1/1/2018)
2018 Red Lion Bethany extended
(1/1/2018 6/30/2018)
2018 retired
2018-23 Red
Lion Bethany extended
2024 discontinued (12/31/2023)
PARR, MARTIN L.
Born:
married:
Amber _____
Died:
obit:
2017 license, recommended by Waller
Interment:
Obit:
2017-23 Jerseytown
PASSANTE, CHRISTOPHER K.
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
2016 license, recommended by Middlesex
ordained
deacon
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
2015-16 Grays
2015-16 Bellefonte
Trinity (beginning 7/27/2015)
2016-19 Bellefonte Trinity
2019-24 State College Mt. Nittany
PERRY, DONALD B.
Born:
married:
MaryKay _____
Died:
obit:
2012 license, recommended by Carbondale First
Interment:
Obit:
2010-13 Stewart Memorial
2013-16 Unity in Christ Parish [Moosic
Stewart Memorial]
2016-22 Carbondale First
2022 retired
PERRY, ELIZABETH ANN
Born:
married:
Anthony Perry
Died:
obit:
1991 license, recommended by Harrisburg St.
Pauls
1993 ordained deacon
1998 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1991-93 Jacobs
1993-94 student, Princeton Theological
Seminary
1994-95 associate, Manchester St. Paul
(ending 1/1/1995)
on leave (beginning
1/1/1995)
1995-96 chaplain, Country Meadows
1996-97 on leave
1997-00 Unityville
2000-04 Montoursville Bethel
2004-08 Lexington, New York Conference
(ending 12/31/2008)
2008- on leave (beginning 12/31/2008)
PETERS, ROGER KENT
Born:
married:
Eunice _____
Died:
obit:
? ordained, Free Methodist Church
Interment:
Obit:
1990 transfer to central Pennsylvania
Conference, United Methodist Church
1990-02 director of pastoral services, the
Selinsgrove Center
2002-06 director of chaplaincy services, PA
Department of Welfare (ending 3/25/2006)
2006 retired
2006-13 New
Berlin Emmanuel
PETROVIC, MINDY J.
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
2020 license, recommended by McAlisterville
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Mifflintown Aldersgate
PFAFF, TAYLOR D.
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-20 Lehman-Idetown
2020-22 Linglestown Life (ending 8/7/2022)
2022 discontinued (11/14/2022)
Note:
Taylor D. Pfaff served as a local pastor.
PFLEEGOR, CHRIS E.
Born:
married:
Judith _____
Died:
obit:
2006 license, recommended by Howard
Interment:
Obit:
2006-08 Runville
2008-12 Unity Parish
2012-13 clinical pastoral; education,
Geisinger Medical Center
2013-20 Balls Mills
2020-22 Allport Gethsemane
2022 retired
PHILLIPS, CALVIN F.
Born: married: Darlene _____
Died: obit:
2022 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-22 Wallis Run
2022-23 Tiadaghton [Jersey Shore First Phelps Chapel]
PHILLIPS, KIMERLY L.
Born:
married:
John Phillips
Died:
obit:
2009 license, recommended by Haddon Heights NJ
First
Interment:
Obit:
2009-10 Winslow Elm, Greater New Jersey
Conference
2010 transfer to Susquehanna
Conference
2010-18 Ortanna
2018-19 unappointed
2019-22 Rouzerville
2022 retired
PHILLIPS, THOMAS A.
Born:
married:
Linda _____
Died:
obit:
2016 license, recommended by Mt. Victory
Interment:
Obit:
2016-23 Mt. Victory (ending 7/31/2022)
2024 discontinued (9/22/2023)
Note:
Thomas A. Phillips served as a local pastor.
PIERCE, DOUGLAS A.
Born:
married:
Marlene _____
Died:
obit:
2013 license, recommended by Lewistown First
Interment:
Obit:
2010-20 Bellville (ending 12/31/2019)
2020 retired (1/1/2020)
2022-23 Lewistown
Lake Park Grove Memorial (beginning 4/20/2022 and ending 1/1/2023)
Note:
Doug Pierce served as a certified lay minister for 3 tears.
PIPER, JULIA A.
Born:
married:
Jeffrey Piper
Died:
obit:
2003 license, recommended by Shippensburg Messiah
2011 provisional elder
2013 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2003-11 Rebersburg
2011-18 Allenport
2018-22 Altoona Juniata
2022-23 Allport Gethsemane
PLANT, MATTHEW D.
Born:
married:
Rickelle _____
Died:
obit:
2007 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2007-13 Fetterhoff Chapel Mt. Union
2013-23 Barnitz Mount Zion
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
PORT, DEBORAH J.
Born:
married:
Nicholas Port
Died:
obit:
2010 license, recommended by Cross Point
ordained
deacon
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
2010-15 Longstown (ending 3/1/2015)
2015-19 Harrisburg Twenty-ninth Street
(beginning 2/1/2015, ending 4/21/2019)
2019-21 Harrisburg The Journey (beginning
4/22/2019)
2021- unappointed
PORTNER, STEPHEN GODFREY
Born:
married:
Christine _____
Died:
obit:
1987 license, recommended by Sunbury St. Johns
1989 ordained deacon
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
North Central New York
Conference
1987-89 Delaware Water Gap Poplar Valley, ?
Conference
1989 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1989-91 Williamsport Grace South
Williamsport
1991-96 Morrisdale - Palestine
1996-04 Light Street
2004-10 Chambers Hill
2010-15 St. Thomas
2015-23 Berwick Bethany
PRESTON, EDWARD JOHN
Born:
married:
Donna _____
Died:
obit:
1987 ordained deacon, recommended by Yorkshire
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1987-90 associate, York Messiah
1990-93 Nescopeck Albright
1993-96 associate, Carlisle Grace
1996-12 Altoona Mardorf
2002-09 Ivyside
Parish
2009-10 Altoona
Wehnwood
2010-12 Altoona
Broad Avenue
2012-19 State College Mt. Nittany
2019-21 Runville Curtin
2021- Mansfield
PRICE, GEORGE III
Born:
married:
Lynn _____
Died:
obit:
2014 license, recommended by Hunlock Creek
Interment:
Obit:
2012-15 West Nanticoke Calvary
2012-13 Askam
(beginning 9/30/2012)
2015-22 Middleburg
2022-23 Mehoopany
PRICE, MICHELLE C.
Born:
married:
Kyle Price
Died:
obit:
2018 license, recommended by Cassville
Interment:
Obit:
2018-23 Mapleton Parish
2023- McConnellsburg
PRIESTER, CHRISTOPHER M.
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
2021 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Woodland
PROWANT, EDWARD E.
Born:
married:
Eileen P. McCleary
Died:
obit:
1966 license, recommended by White Deer Faith
1971 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1965-66 Mt. Pleasant (beginning 7/11/1965,
ending 6/5/1966)
1966 Williamsport Eagle Mill Creek
(beginning 6/12/1966, ending 10/31/1966)
1966-68 York Bethlehem Violet Hill
(beginning 11/1/1966, ending 6/2/1968)
1968-71 Baltimore Siemers Memorial
(beginning, 6/9/1968, ending 2/28/1971)
1968-69
Old Otterbein (beginning
6/9/1968, ending 1/15/1969)
1970 transfer
by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1971 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1971-74 Williamsport Thirst Street (beginning
3/1/1971)
1974-80 Williamsport Heshbon Park
1980-87 Nescopeck Wesley
1987-89 Altoona Otterbein
1989-91 Sunbury Catawissa Avenue
1991-02 State College Park Forest Village
2002-06 Dillsburg Calvary
2006 retired
2006-10 Phelps
Chapel
2021-22 Heshbon
Park (beginning 9/12/2021)
Note:
Mrs. Prowant is the daughter of Leon A. McCleary of the Evangelical Church.
PURNELL, MICHAEL J.
Born:
married:
Drema _____
Died:
obit:
2003 license, recommended by Wells Valley
Interment:
Obit:
2003-09 Hillcrest
2009-14 Charlestown
2014-15 unappointed
2015-17 Canoe Creek Union and Alexandria Hope
(ending 3/13/2017)
2017-23 unappointed (beginning
3/13/2017)
PYLES, BETH A.
Born:
married:
Chris Pyles
Died:
obit:
2012 license, recommended by Everett
2019 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2012-17 Wolfsburg Trans Run
2017-20 Altoona East End
2017-18 Altoona
Fairview
2018-20 Altoona
Jaggard First
2020-21 unappointed
2021-23 Bedford Forge
2023 disaffiliated
Born: married: Christine _____
Died: obit:
2003 license, recommended by Hummelstown Trinity
2009 provisional elder
2012 ordained local pastor
Interment:
Obit:
2003-05 Muir Grace
2005-06 no appointment
2006-12 Halifax Faith
2012-16 no appointment (ending 5/1/2016)
2016-19 Harrisburg Grace (beginning 5/1/2016)
2019-21 Mechanicsburg Wesley
2021-23 Newburg Otterbein Shippensburg Christ
2024 discontinued (4/24/2024)
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Vira Wagner
2022-23 Grove
Memorial (beginning 1/1/2023)
RANSOM,
GRACE MARIE
Born: married:
Robert H. Ransom (2002)
Died: obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2020, 342
2006 license, recommended by Roseville
Interment:
Obit:
2006-09 associate, Pennsdale Huntersville
(beginning 12/1/2006)
2009-10 unappointed
2010-14 Clarkstown
2014-23 associate, Hollidaysburg
Note:
Robert Ransom is a ministerial member of the Susquehanna Conference
RANSOM,
ROBERT H.
Born: 9-11-1963
El Paso
TX married:
Grace Marie York (2002)
Died: 12-10-2019 Hollidaysburg
PA obit:
2006 license, recommended by Churubusco IN
Interment:
Riverview Cemetery, Eel River township, IN
Obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2020, 342
2006-14 Pennsdale Huntersville (beginning
12/1/2006)
2014-15 Tyrone Christ
2014-15 Hannah
(ending 12/31/2014)
2015-20 Altoona Asbury
Note:
Grace Marie Ransom is a ministerial member of the Susquehanna Conference.
RAPP,
GREGORY A.
Born: married:
Robin _____
Died: obit:
1998 license, recommended by Paxtonville
2002 provisional elder
2005 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1998-03 Leesburg
2003-09 associate, Hershey First
2009-12 superintendent, Wellsboro District
2012-21 Hanover First
2021-23 Coudersport Park Sweden Valley
Faith
RARICH,
JEFFREY L.
Born: married:
Suzanne _____
Died: obit:
1977 ordained elder, recommended by Berwick
Bethany
Interment:
Obit:
1977-79 student, Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School in Deerfield IL
1979 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1979-85 Maple Grove
1985-91 Wallenpaupack Area
1991-99 Paupack (ending 2/5/1999)
1999 transfer to New York Conference
1999-07 director NY/CT UM Foundation
(beginning 2/15/1999)
2007-09 director of planned giving,
Guideposts Foundation
2009-16 associate director of special gifts,
Eastern Territory Salvation Army (ending 2/1/2016)
2016 retired
2016-23 HamlinHollistervilleMaplewood
RASER,
AMY M.
Born: married:
Peter Raser
Died: obit:
1997 provisional elder, North Alabama Conference
2000 ordained elder, North Alabama
Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2006-09 Hetlerville Mifflinville, Central
Pennsylvania Conference
2009 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2009-10 Hetlerville Mifflinville
2010-14 associate, Hollidaysburg
2014-15 Clarks Summit (ending 5/15/2015)
2015-16 medical leave (beginning 5/15/2015)
2016-17 Peckville
2017-23 Highspire
2017-19 Royalton
Emmanuel (ending 9/30/2019)
2019-22 Union
Deposit
2022-23 Geyers
Note:
Amy Rasers husband Peter is a member of the Susquehanna Conference
RASER,
PETER
Born: married:
Amy _____
Died: obit:
1997 license, North Alabama Conference
2007 ordained elder, North Alabama
Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2006-09 Berwick Calvary/St. Pauls
2009 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2009-10 Berwick Calvary/St. Pauls
2010-14 Altoona Christ Community
2014-15 Lehman Idetown
2015-17 Dalton Factoryville
2017-19 Union Deposit
2019-21 Liverpool
2021-23 Millersburg First
Note:
Peter Raser appears to have served Loganville Violet Hill briefly in
2019. Peter Rasers wife Amy is a member
of the Susquehanna Conference.
RAUHAUSER, TYLER
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license, recommended by Mt. Wolf Otterbein
Interment:
Obit:
2019-24 Benton Waller Town Hill
2024-25 unappointed
2025 discontinued 6/25/2025
RAUHUT, JOHN F
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1985 license, recommended by Muncy First
1988 ordained deacon
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-89 student, Moravian Seminary
1985-89 Barnesville
Quakake
1989-98 Middleburg Trinity
1998-02 Fort Loudon Edenville
1902-08 Williamsport St. Paul (2005, becomes
St. Paul Calvary)
2008-14 Trinity New Cumberland
2014 retired
REDDING, CARL W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2016 license, recommended by Dover Bethany
Interment:
Obit:
2016-17 Windsor Emmanuel
2017-18 Paddletown St. Pauls
2018-23 unappointed
REED, DAVID LARUE
Born: married: Diane _____
Died: obit:
1972 ordained deacon, recommended by Pennsdale
1976 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1970-71 student, Lycoming College
1970-71 Elimsport
1971-74 student, United Theological Seminary
1972-73 student
associate, Lima OH Southside Church of Christ
1974-75 ?
1975-82 Fairview
1982-06 Boiling Springs Otterbein
2006-14 CEO, United Methodist Home for
Children
2014 retired
REED, STEPHON R.
Born: married: Shirley _____
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1991-93 Rouzerville
Note:
Stephon Reed served as a student local pastor while attending Gettysburg
Seminary. He later served in the West
Virginia Conference.
REEDY, DENNIS NORWOOD
Born:
married:
Yvonne _____
Died:
obit:
1968 license, Susquehanna Conference: recommended
by West Milton
1970 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1967-70 student, United Theological Seminary,
Dayton OH
1967-68 Friends
Meeting, Jamestown OH
1969-70 Twin
Creek Congregational Christian, West Manchester OH
1970-75 East Canton
1975-82 Mount Nebo Mount Olivet
1982-94 Clearfield Christ
1993-94 Mt.
Joy
1994-05 Tyrone Christ (ending 11/1/2005)
2005 retired (11/1/2005)
2009
withdrew (10/8/2009), see 2010, page 51
Note:
As of 2020, Dennis N. Reedy is living in Curwensville PA.
REESE, SAM
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
Interment:
Obit:
2011-12 Black Oak
Note:
Sam Reese served as a certified lay minister.
REEVE, NATHANIEL L.
Born: married: Renee _____
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2018-19 Tri-County Parish )befinning
1/1/2019)
2019 unappointed (7/1/2019
8/31/2019)
2019-21 Pine Creek Valley Parish (beginning
9/1/2019)
2021-23 New Visions Parish [Covington
Blossburg First]
REIDER, ROBERT ARTHUR
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1963 ordained,
Assemblies of God
Interment:
Obit:
1961-62 Tamaqua
1962-64 Williamsport
1964-65 Hamburg
1965-66 Greenmount, Susquehanna Conference of the EUB Church
1966 transfer to Susquehanna Conference of the EUB Church
1966-67 Greenmount
1967-69 Runville
1969-70 student
serving in the Northern Illinois Conference
REISINGRT, MARK F.
Born: married: Alicia _____
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Walnut Grove
2007 provisional elder
2010 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2004-08 Williamsport Third Street
2008-15 Mechanicsburg Grace
2015-18 Lewisburg Beaver Memorial
2018-23 Bloomsburg Wesley
REIST, LEROY FITZGERALD II
Born: married:
Betty ____
Died:
obit:
1968 license, recommended by Rockville
1972 ordained deacon
1978 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1968-69 Enders Powells Valley
1969-71 Union Deposit Shirks
1971-77 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1977-78 Millerton Daggett
1978-80 associate, Harrisburg Grace
1980-82 Mechanicsburg Grace (ending
11/15/1982)
1982-87 Altoona Fairview (beginning
11/15/1987)
1987-93 Harrisburg State Street
1993-01 Shippensburg Messiah
2001-07 superintendent, Williamsport District
2007-16 secretary, General Conference (ending
12/31/2016)
2008-13 Harrisburg
Grace (ending 1/1/2013)
2017-19 director, Congregational Development
for the California-Nevada Conference (1/1/2017)
2019 retired
2019-20 Wyalusing
(beginning 2/1/2020)
2020-21 Roseville-Mainesburg
(beginning 2/1/2021)
REITZ, CHARLENE R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Fishburn
Interment:
Obit:
2005-07 Muir Grace (beginning 9/1/2005)
2007 retired
RENNER, CHRIS EDWARD
Born: married: Beatrice _____
Died: obit:
1999 license, recommended by Carlisle Grace
2004 provisional elder
2007 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1999-03 Cumberland Charge
2003-17 Marion First
2017 retired
2018-19 State
line (beginning1/1/2019)
RENNINGER, LINDA J.
Born: married: Dennis Renninger
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Hillsgrove
Interment:
Obit:
2009-20 Forksville Hillsgrove
2020 retired
2020-23 Forksville Hillsgrove
RENNINGER, LUVANIA E.
Born: married: Zane Renninger
Died: obit:
2008 license
Interment:
Obit:
2008-09 Huntingdon 12th Street
Hope
2009-15 Hillcrest
2015 retired
2016-21 Mount
Union First
REYNOLDS, GEORGE SCOTT
Born: married: Rita _____
Died: obit:
1986 ordained deacon, recommended by Lewistown Grace
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1986-87 student, Asbury Theological Seminary
1987-90 Forksville
1990-00 Mifflin Trinity
2000-06 Valley View St. Andrews
2006-23 Linglestown Life
2019-23 Rockville
RICE, ROBERT O. JR.
Born: married: Lynn _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Snyders
2008 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
2001-06 Enola Grace Royalton Emmanuel
2006-12 New Bloomfield
2012-17 White Deer
2017 retired
2017-21 Evansville
Stone Church
2021-23 Mifflinburg
RICH, CALVIN J.
Born: 10-?-1976 married:
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Chambersburg First
2008 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2006-08 Shade Valley Parish
2008-11 Catawissa First Rupert
2011-12 Middletown Wesley
2012-13 Huntingdon First
2013-14 Dorranceton
2014-16 Scranton Court Street Embury (ending 4/18/2016)
2016 honorable location 4/18/2016 [2016, 155]
2019 withdrew 2/12/2019 [2019, 179]
RIDER, GAY L. [see IRWIN, GAY L.]
RIDER, JACK LAMON
Born: 5-5-1939 Centre County PA married: Evelyn B. Witherite
Died: 8-24-2013 Manchester PA obit:
1963 license
1968 ordained elder
Interment: Meyer Cemetery, Buffalo Run PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 262
1968-75 Castanea Farrandsville
1975-84 Liverpool
1984-91 Mifflintown Aldersgate Arch Rock
1991-94 Chestnut Grove (ending 1/1/1994)
1994-04 disability leave
2004 retired
RIGGS, LORI L.
Born: married: Richard Riggs
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Dillsburg Community
2021-23 Dillsburg
Mt. Airy (beginning 9/1/2021)
ROBERTS, C. MATTHEW
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Williamsburg
2023 disaffiliated
2024 discontinued (1/17/2023)
ROBERTSON, R. JEFFREY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-93 Druck Valley
Note: R. Jeffrey Robertson served part-time while a student
at Lancaster Theological Seminary.
ROBINSON, RICHARD N. JR.
Born: married: Jody _____
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Runville
2006 provisional elder
2009 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2004-07 Sideling Hill
2007-13 Barnitz Mt. Zion
2013-19 South Mountain
2019-23 Muncy First
ROBISON, BARRY CARL
Born: married: Joni _____
Died: obit:
1982 ordained deacon, recommended by Altoona Gethsemane
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-84 associate, Red Lion St. Pauls
(beginning 9/1/1982)
1984-92 Salladasburg
1992-99 Berwick Bower Memorial
1994-95 Beach
Haven Summer Hill
1999-09 Hummels Wharf Christ Community
2009-15 Stewartstown
2015-23 superintendent, Harrisburg District
2023 retired
ROCKWELL, TINA MARIE (LIEK)
Born: 12-12-1961 Columbia PA married: William Keith Rockwell
Died: 9-29-2023 York PA obit:
1994 ordained diaconal minister
Interment: Susquehanna Memorial Gardens, York County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2924, 346
1992-93 director of children and youth ministries, Waynesboro Faith
1994-99 director of Christian education, Altoona Simpson-Temple
2001-03 director of nurture and caring ministries, Jersey Shore First
2003-04 Christian educator, Huntingdon 15th Street
2004-08 director of nurture and Christian education, Wrightsville Grace (ending 9/1/2008)
2009-12 Office of Aging
2012-14 spiritual director, Grayson View Personal Care Home
2014 retired
Note:
Tina Rockwell is married to W. Keith Rockwell.
ROCKWELL, WILLIAM KEITH
Born: married: Tina Marie Liek
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 346
1986 ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference: recommended by Bethany Casstelmans Run
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1987-88 Pine Grove Jacksonburg
1988 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1988-90 Martinsburg
1990-93 Fort Loudon Edenville (ending
12/1/1993)
1993-97 Altoona Simpson-Temple (beginning
12/1/1993)
1997-99 Tiadaghton Ministry 4
1999-03 Jersey Shore First
2003-04 Huntingdon 15th Street
2004-11 Wrightsville Grace
2011-16 Summerdale
2016-20 Hegins Valley
2020 withdrew, page 190
Note:
W. Keith Rockwell is married to Tina Rockwell.
RODARMEL, EDWARD J.
Born: married: Valerir _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Sunbury Faith
Interment:
Obit:
2017-17 Catawissa Bethel
2017-21 Valley Trinity Parish
2021-23 Five Star Parish Brookfield
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Ed Rodarmel served as a local pastor.
RODRIGUEZ, JOSE L. JR.
Born: married: Elsa _____
Died: obit:
2017 license
Interment:
Obit:
2017-18 York Fourth (ending 12/31/2017)
2018-21 Damascus (beginning 1/1/2018)
2021-24 West Pittston (ending 4/30/2024)
2021-23 Plains
(ending 11/20/2023)
2024 suspension (beginning 1/4/2024,
ending 4/30/2024)
2024-25 unappointed
2025 discontinued 2/5/2025
Note:
Jose L. Rodriguez served as a local pastor.
ROGUTSKI, SUSAN O. PALOVCSIK
Born: married: Leonard Rogutski
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Bloomsburg Wesley
2010 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
2002-13 Espy Trinity
2013-16 on leave (ending 10/31/2016)
2016-22 Catawissa First (beginning 11/1/2016)
2022 retired
ROMBERGER, RUTH MARY (HAIN)
Born: 4-5-1938 married:
Arland Franklin Romberger
Died: obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 426
1998 license,
recommended by Mt. Pleasant Mills
Interment:
Obit:
1998-99 Belleville Watts Memorial (beginning 11/1998)
1999-06 Williamsport Heshbon Park
2006 retired
Note: Ruth M. Romberger is the mother of Rev. Duane W. Romberger of the United Church of Christ. Rev. Arland F. Romberger is listed in the Evangelical pastor data base.
ROMBERGER, WILLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2021 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Harrisburg New Hope [Elizabethville
Trinity Loyalton Immanuel-Wesley]
ROPER, RICHARD MELBERT
Born: married: Susan _____
Died: obit:
? ordained, Southwest Texas Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1988 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1988-90 West Decatur
1990-91 Williamsport Newberry (ending 8/15/1991)
1991-92 on leave (beginning 8/15/1991)
1992 no longer listed
2006 retired
Note:
Richard M. Roper apparently moved to Merced CA and served churches in the
California-Nevada Conference as a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference
ROSBOROUGH, JANE see KELLER, JANE
ROSE, CRAIG Q.
Born: married: Wendy _____
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Sate College St. Pauls
Interment:
Obit:
2009-23 Howard
2013 unappointed
(4/1/2013 9/1/2013)
ROSENSTEEL, JULIE A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Mount Union First
2011 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2006-11 Berwick Bower Memorial
2011-16 McConnellstown Mill Creek
2016-19 Mountainview Parish
2019-21 Mehoopany
2021-23 Greater Broad Top New Hope Parish
ROWE, CAROL CRAWFORD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1999 provisional elder, recommended by Bedford
Interment:
Obit:
1996-97 Wormleysburg St. Pauls
1997-99 Wolfsburg
1999-02 Huntingdon 12th Street
(ending 11/2002)
2002-03 on leave (beginning 11/2002)
2003 retired
ROWE, DONALD CRAWFORD
Born: married: Sarah _____
Died: obit:
1992 ordained deacon, recommended by Bedford
1995 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-93 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1993-00 associate, Mechanicsburg First
2000-04 Selinsgrove Wesley (3nding
11/21/2004)
2004-17 Pastor of outreach, Ripon CA Calvary
Reformed (11/21/2004 4/19/2017)
2017-21 on leave (beginning 4/18/2017)
2021-23 Peach Bottom charge
Note:
Donald Crawford Rowe is the son of H. Donald Crawford and the stepson of Earl
N. Rowe of the Methodist files.
RUBILLO, THOMAS J.
Born: married: Peggy Sue _____
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Dresslers Ridge
2021-23 unappointed
RUDY, FREDERICK C.
Born: married: Linda _____
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Powells Valley Zion
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2006-09 New Hope [Loyalton Immanuel &
Wiconisco Wesley] (beginning 12/15/2006)
2009-12 Trough Creek Valley Parish
2012-19 Everett
2012-23 Clearville,
Stevens Chapel, Tatesville
2019-23 Millerstown
RUDY, JAMES EDGAR GEIGER
Born: 3-25-1937 married: Lois Emily Magee
Died: 8-11-2012 Camp Hill obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 348
1990 license, recommended by Fishing Creek Salem
2002 ordained deacon
Interment: Fishing Creek Salem UMC Cemetery, Fairview
township, York County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 270
1990-91 Mt. Airy Mt. Zion
1991-92 Juniata Cooperative Parish
1992-93 Wellsville Parish
1993-96 not appointed
1996-99 Cumberland Charge
1999-00 Paxtonville Penns Creek Greatere
Parish
2000-01 not appointed
2001-02 Enola Grace
2002-04 Duncannon Asbury
2004 retired
2005-06 Pisgah
(ending 12/31/2005)
RUNNELS, ANN R.
Born: married: Charles Runnels
Died: obit:
2001 license
Interment:
Obit:
2000-03 Renovo Westport
2003-16 Nisbet
2016 retired
2017-18 Lock
Haven Covenant Faith (beginning 3/6/2018)
2018-19 Hughesville
The Beacon [merger of Bethany & Christ]
2019-20 Trout
Run
2020-23 Williamsport
St. Paul-Calvary
RUPERT, STEPHANIE P.
Born: married: Victor Rupert
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Mercersburg First
2016 provisional elder
2019 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2011-14 Chambersburg St. Johns
2014-18 Mifflintown Aldersgate
2018-21 McVeytown Wayne
2021-23 Lewistown Grace
RUPNICK, TENNY H.
Born: married: Matthew Rupnick
Died: obit:
2014 license
2015 provisional elder, South Carolina Conference
2017 ordained, South Carolina Conference
Interment:
Obit:
South Carolina Conference
2021 transfer to Susquehanna Conference
2021-23 Tunkhannock
RUPP, ROBERT LEE
Born:
1-14-1947 Altoona PA married:
Jean Ann Burchfield
Died:
7-27-2020 obit:
1984 license, recommended by Altoona Mardorf
1988 ordained deacon, recommended by Duncansville
Hicks Memorial
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA
Obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2021, 365
1985-90 East Freedom
1990-00 Martinsburg
2000-06 Bellwood Tipton
2006- Clearfield Trinity
Born: 4-6-1948 Clearfield PA married: Ellen G. Hess
Died: 12-15-2017 York PA obit:
1993 license, recommended by Sanborn
1999 ordained deacon
Interment: Bethlehem Stonepile Church Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 278
1993-00 Ramey
2000-04 New Creation
2004-08 Salladasburg
2008- Shade Valley Parish
RUSSELL, SHIRLEY ANN JACOBS
Born: 12-7-1942 Mechanicsburg PA married: James C. Russell
Died: 9-22-2016 Cumberland County PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 291
1993 ordained deacon, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
1996 ordained elder
Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 292
1992-94 Schoneck Wiest Memorial, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1994-01 Manor Hill
2001-04 Altoona Wesley Asbury
2003-04 Altoona
Asbury
2004 Altoona Juniata (ending
9/1/2004)
2004- incapacity leave (beginning
9/1/2004)
RYAN, RICHARD ROBERT JR.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Harrisburg Derry Street
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-87 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC
1987-92 Altoona Grace
1992-95 York St. Pauls St. Lukes
1995-00 associate, York Aldersgate
2000- on leave
RYDER, DEBORAH L.
Born: married: Robert M. Ryder
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Harrisburg Harris Street
Interment:
Obit:
2009 Middletown Wesley (ending 12/1/2009)
2009-10 Halifax Jacobs (12/1/2009 10/16/2010)
2010-11 unappointed (beginning 10/16/2010)
2011-12 Askam (ending 9/30/2012)
2011-12 West
Nanticoke Calvary (ending 2/15/2012)
2012-13 unappointed (beginning 9/30/2012)
2013-14 Courtdale Larkville
2014 unappointed (ending 9/30/2014)
2014-15 Altoona Asbury (befinning 10/1/2014)
2015-17 unappointed
2017-19 Oakville
2019-20 unappointed
2019-21 Geyers (ending 12/31/2020)
2021-22 unappointed (beginning 1/1/2022)
2022-23 Newport Hope Eternal
Note:
Deborah L. Ryder is married to Robert M. Ryder.
RYDER, ROBERT M.
Born: married: Deborah H. _____
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Harrisburg Harris Street
2012 provisional elder
2014 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2007-11 Halifax Zion Stone
2011-14 Lehman-Idetown
2014-16 Altoona Second Avenue
2016-17 on leave
2017-23 Steelton Centenary
2020-23 Middletown
Wesley
RYNKEWITZ, STEPHEN J. JR.
Born: married: Darlene _____
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
Interment:
Obit:
2013-23 Lewistown Wesley Chapel
2013-14 associate,
McVeytown Wayne (ending 12/31/2014)
SABAS, PHILIP
Born: 10-22-1948 Camden NJ married: Mary McComb
Died: 5-2-1924 Orwigsburg PA obit:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by Millersburg Hebron
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 346
1978-81 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1978-81 Martinville Clearfield, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
1981-83 Dushore LaPorte
1983-86 Port Matilda
1986-89 Altoona East End
1989-92 Mount Holly Springs
1992-00 Elizabethville
2000-06 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
2006-12 Valley View St. Andrews (ending 3/15/2012)
2012 retired (3/15/2012)
SALDANA, JOHN J.
Born: 3-6-1948 San Antonio TX married: April J. Yerrick
Died: 5-2-2024 obit:
2015 license, recommended by Runville
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 346
2015-18 Unity Parish Hannah (beginning
1/1/2015)
2018-22 Lock Haven Parish (ending 7/17/2022)
2023-24 White Pine
Note:
Jay Saldana served as a local pastor.
It is unclear whether he actually served at White Pine.
SALES, THADIUS E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2016 license, recommended by Mainesburg
Interment:
Obit:
2016-17 Middlebury Parish
2017-19 Pine Creek Valley
2019-21 unappointed
2021-23 Dillsburg Calvary
2023 disaffiliated
SALISBURY, CHARLES W.
Born: married: Victoria _____
Died: obit:
1984 ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle Grace
1987 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-88 Genesee Ulysses
1988-96 Fawn Grove
1996-03 Red Lion Bethany
2003-05 New Freedom Trinity
2005 retired
2008 return to active status
2008-12 Red Lion St. Pauls (ending 8/19/2012)
2012-20 superintendent, York District
(beginning 8/12/2012)
2020-23 Hummelstown Grace
Note:
Charles W. Salisbury is the father of Stephen P. Salisbury.
SALISBURY, STEPHEN P.
Born: married: Heather _____
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Red Lion Bethany
2013 provisional elder
2015 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2011-13 Breezewood Wesley Chapel (beginning 6/1/2011)
2013-17 Newburg
2017-20 Hanover Grace
2020-23 Boiling Springs Otterbein
Note:
Stephen P. Salisbury is the son of Charles W. Salisbury.
SALSGIVER, BRENT T.
Born: married: Elizabeth _____
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg Aldersgate
2011 provisional elder
2017 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2007-11 West Decatur
2011-15 Altoona Juniata
2015-22 Harrisburg Paxton
2022-23 Fishburn
Note:
Brent T. Salsgiver is the son of Thomas L. Salsgiver.
SALSGIVER, THOMAS LANE
Born: married:
Joanne M. Hughes
Died:
obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2024, 346
1973 admitted on trial, recommended by
Williamsport St. Pauls
1973 ordained deacon
1977 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-75 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1975-78 associate, Harrisburg Grace
1978-84 Harrisburg Park Street
1984-87 Wellsboro (ending 7/15/1987)
1987-93 General Board of Discipleship
(beginning 7/15/1987)
1993-00 Bloomsburg Wesley
2000-08 director, Conference Council on
Ministries
2008-16 superintendent, Lewisburg District
2016-18 director, Conference Connectional
Ministries
2018 retired
2018-23 clergy
assistant to the bishop
Note:
Thomas L. Salsgiver is the father of Brent T. Salsgiver
SANAGORSKI, THOMAS HAROLD
Born: married: Linda Jean Pomraning
Died: obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 428
married2: Pamela S. Cianciosi
1972 ordained deacon, Ohio West Conference obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 401
1975 ordained elder, Ohio West Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1972-75 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1973-75 associate, Greenville First
1975-78 associate, Athens First
1978 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1978-82 Emigsville Longstown
1982-04 Geyers
2004-06 Chambersburg St. Pauls
2006-10 Spry Otterbein (ending 12/31/2009)
2010 retired (1/1/2010)
Note:
Pamela S. Cianciosi is an ordained member of the Central Pennsylvania
Conference.
SANDELL, BRIAN D.
Born: married: Lara _____
Died: obit:
2016 license
Interment:
Obit:
2016-23 Altoona Second Avenue
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Brian D. Sandell served as a local pastor.
SCAMAHORN, ELLEN B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Hershey First
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2002-06 Airville Salem
2006-13 Bald Eagle Valley Community
2013-17 Paddletown St. Pauls
2017-20 Orangeville
2020-23 New Bloomfield
SCHAEFER, BARTON THOMAS
Born: 1-1-1952 York County PA married: Rebecca _____
Died: 11-20-2014 Mechanicsburg PA obit:
1977 ordained deacon, recommended by Dallastown Bethlehem
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 274
1980-83 Bald Eagle Parish
1983-88 Williamsburg Cove Forge
1988-93 Harrisburg Epworth
1993-93 associate Harrisburg Colonial Park
1995-04 chaplain, Dauphin County Home
2004- Newport
Hope Eternal
SCHAEFER, JOHN ANDREW
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
1979 ordained deacon, recommended by Dallastown Bethlehem
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-81 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1979-81 Vandalia
OH
1981-86 Howard (ending 1/1/1986)
1986-90 associate, State College St. Pauls
(beginning 1/1/1986)
1990-20 Hummelstown Grace
2020 retired
SCHAFER, CHRISTOPHER J.
Born: married: Megan _____
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Shippensburg Messiah
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2008-11 Roseville Mainesburg (ending 11/14/2011)
2011-23 chaplain, US Army (beginning 11/14/2011)
SCHEIB, GLENN ROBERT
Born: married: Cynthia _____
Died: obit:
1974 license, recommended by Valley View St. Andrews
1974 ordained deacon
1979 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1974-77 Newport Parish (ending 1/1/1977)
1977-81 Port Royal (beginning 1/1/1977)
1981-88 Cumberland Charge
1988-90 Millersburg Hebron
1990-12 chaplain, US Army (ending 9/10/2012)
2012-13 chaplain, VA in Los Angeles
(9/10/2012 9/12/2013)
2013-14 on leave (9/12/2013 8/31/2014)
2014-19 chaplain, Islands Hospice in Honolulu
HI (beginning 9/1/2014)
2019 retired
SCHMIDT, GERALD E. JR.
Born: married: Paula _____
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Penbrook Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
2002-07 Steelton Mt. Zion (ending 8/1/2007)
2007-08 Tri-County Parish (beginning 8/1/2007)
2018-23 Wrightsville Hope
2022-23 Hallam Faith
SCHMUCK, KEITH JONATHAN
Born: married: Diane _____
Died: obit:
1968 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
1970 ordained deacon
1976 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1968-69 student, Lebanon Valley College in Annville PA
1968-69 Liverpool
1969-73 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1970-71 York
Center, West Ohio Conference
1971-72 intern
associate, Ephrata First, East Pennsylvania Conference
1973 student
associate, Crandon WI Campground Ministry (summer)
1973-75 Rosewood OH, West Ohio Conference
1975-81 Millville Greenwood
1981-87 Riverside St. Peters
1987-96 York Bethany
1996-01 Manmchester St. Paul
2001-06 Lykens
2006-11 Altoona Juniata
2011-15 Winterstown
2015 retired
2015-23 Mt.
Pisgah Trinity
Note:
Keith J, Schmuck is the son of Miller S. Schmuck and a brother to David W.
Schmuck and Dwight M. Schmuck all of the United Brethren Pastor file.
SCHOLL,
LEON G.
Born:
7-31-1951 Mt. Pleasant Mills PA married: Susan _____
Died:
11-12-2015 Williamsport PA obit:
1977 license, recommended by Selinsgrove Christ
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA
Obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2016, 267
1997-03 Orangeville
2003- Mt. Pleasant Mills
SCHORR, HAROLD C.
Born: married: Jalinn _____
Died: obit:
2014 license
Interment:
Obit:
2014-23 Center Moreland
SCHRACK, RESA C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2021 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Mt. Rock
SCHROEDER, THOMAS DALE
Born: 3-12-1936 married: Donna L. Jordan
Died: 3-23-2021 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 349
1987 license, recommended by Druck valley
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 366
1983-88 Trinity North
1988-01 Beavertown
2001 retired
2001-02 Sunbury
Catawissa Avenue (beginning 12/23/2001)
2002-03 Centre
(beginning 2/11/2003)
2005-06 Sunbury
Catawissa Avenue (beginning 3/31/2005)
2006-07 Freeburg
Shamokin Dam
SCHWAB, KAY IRENE DRY
Born: 2-23-1946 Huntingdon PA married:
Died: 5-16-2014 Leesburg VA obit:
1996 ordained deacon, recommended by Mansfield First
2000 ordained elder
Interment: Union Cemetery, Bellefonte PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 263
Middle Ridge
Grover - Shunk
1996-97 student, Boston University School of
Theology
1997-00 Windfall
2000-06 Sugar Valley
2006-14 Lykens
SCHWARTZ, LYNNE MacDONALD
Born: married: Alan MacDonald
Died: obit:
1998 license, recommended by Towanda First
Interment:
Obit:
1998-02 Catawissa Circuit (ending 6/1/2002)
2002-15 on leave (beginning 1/1/2002)
2015 retired
SCHWARTZMAN, JASON M.
Born: married: Michelle _____
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by York Aldersgate
2017 provisional elder
2021 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2012-13 York Otterbein (4/1/2013)
2013-17 Altoona East End Fairview
2017-23 Lemoyne Grace
2022-23 Harrisburg Grace
SEARFOSS, THOMAS RAYMOND JR.
Born: 9-22-1942 Mill Hall PA married: Georgene Auman
Died: 10-16-2016 State College PA obit:
1965 license, recommended by Centre Hall Grace
1972 ordained deacon
1979 ordained elder
Interment: Mountain Cemetery, Spring Mills PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 292
1988-89 Kylertown Gethsemane
1989-90 Mansfield
1990-93 State College St. Johns
1993-94 Selinsgrove Wesley Shamokin Dam
1994-95 York Trinity
1995-98 Rockville Center, New York Conference
1998-04 Clearfield Parish
2004-06 Union Deposit
2006 retired
2006-07 Elimsport
Note:
While a student, Thomas R. Searfoss reportedly served in Ramey PA, Severn MD,
Baltimore MD (old Otterbein and Boundary) and Taneytown MD
SECHRIST, STEPHANY SMITH
Born: married: Rodney L. Sechrist
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 348
1983 ordained deacon, recommended by Red Lion Bethany
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-91 Adamsville Dallastown Trinity
1991-95 associate, York Aldersgate
1995-06 Red Lion Zion
2006 retired
2013-14 Peach Bottom (ending 1/1/2014); Glen Rock (beginning 1/1/2014)
2018-19 Red Lion Zion (beginning 4/1/2019)
2021-23 York Haven Pleasant Grove
SECREST, BETTY L.
Born: married: Robert Secrest
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Charlestown
Interment:
Obit:
2009-19 Sideling Hill
2019-20 unappointed
2020 retired
SEELY, EDWIN DEAN
Born: married: Lisa _____
Died: obit:
1996 ordained deacon, recommended by Grover St. Johns
2000 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1991-96 Whitneyville Coolidge Hollow
1996-03 Mapleton Parish
2003-23 Orbisonia
2020-23 Three Springs
SERVELLO, BARBARA A.
Born: married: Jack Servello
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Altoona Fifth Avenue
Interment:
Obit:
2007-11 East Freedom
2011-20 Leesburg
2020-23 Huntingdon 15th Street - Donation
SHAFER, ERIC JOHN
Born: married: Robin _____
Died: obit:
1994 ordained deacon, recommended by New Cumberland Baughman Memorial
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-96 Millerton Daggert
1996-05 associate, Carlisle Grace
2005-16 associate, State College St. Pauls
2016-21 Tyrone Good Shepherd Warriors Mark
2021-23 Hummels Wharf Christ Community
Note:
Eric J. Shafer is the son of John R. Shafer of the Methodist database.
SHAFER-STROUD, BYRON
Born: 3-29-1936 DeKalb MO married: Elaine Shafer
Died: 1-25-2020 obit:
1979 ordained deacon. Recommended by Hollidaysburg First
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2000, 344
1974-75 Port Matilda Black Oak
1978-79 Stony Point NY
1981-85 Almedia Espy
1985-88 Altoona Eesley Asbury
1988-95 Williamsburg
1995-00 Altoona Gethsemane
2000 retired
Note
Byron Shafer-Stroud is married to Elaine Shafer-Stroud.
SHAFER-STROUD, ELAINE CAROL
Born: married: Byron Stroud
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2000, 344
1991 ordained deacon, recommended by Altoona Wesley Asbury
1994 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-92 Mines Royer
1992-95 Petersburg
1995-01 Altoona Garden Heights Lakemont
2001-03 on leave
2003-08 Mechanicsburg Grace
2008 retired
2012-23 assisting
elder, Altoona District
Note:
Elaine Shafer-Stroud is married to Byron Shafer Stroud. She is the daughter of Donald L. Shafer and a
sister to D.L. Brinton Shafer, both of the Methodist database.
SHAFFER, KAYLA N.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-20 East Waterford Faith (beginning
11/1/2019)
2020-25 unappointed
2025 discontinued 5/7/2025
SHAMBACH, LEAR EUGENE
Born: 2-26-1931 Middleburg PA married: Dorothy Ettinger (6/16/1950)
Died: 1-8-2021 Millmont PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 263
1972 license, recommended by Middleburg Salem
Interment: Penns Creek Union Cemetery, Penns Creek PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 367
1972-90 Freeburg (beginning 8/1/1971)
1992-00 Dresslers Ridge (beginning 10/1/1992)
2000 retired
SHAMER, WAYNE ARTHUR
Born: 1944 Patapsco MD married: Shirley Marie Thoman
Died: 7-27-2023 obit: [1946-]
1995 license, recommended by Greenmount
2009 associate member
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 348
1996-98 Bittersville Windsor
1998-05 Runville
2005-12 White Deer
2012 retired
2012-18 Violet
Hill (beginning 11/15/2012)
2013-18 Loganville
220-23 Violet
Hill
SHARPE, EDWARD C.
Born: married: Jennifer L. Quillen
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Harrisonville Asbury
Interment:
Obit:
1998-2013 Amberson
2013-14 unappointed (ending 1/2/2014)
2014 discontinued (1/2/2014)
SHATTO, MILTON THOMAS
Born: married: Patricia _____
Died: obit:
1966 admitted on trial, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Colonial Park
1971 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1966-68 student, Lebanon Valley College in Annville PA
1966-69 Lebanon West Side
1968-71 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1968-71 Dayton OH Hawker UCC
1971 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1971-77 Windsor Bittersville
1977-92 York St. Pauls St. Lukes
1992-03 Wellsville
2003 retired
2003-12 Sweden Valley Faith
2019-20 Pine Creek Valley (ending 8/31/2019)
SHEARER, ETHAN T.
Born: married: Beth _____
Died: obit:
2017 license
Interment:
Obit:
2017-20 Curwensville
2020-23 unappointed
SHEERER, ELWIN
JEREMIAH
Born:
12-27-1928 Siles PA married:
Audrey Jean Higley
Died: 1-1-2023 Townville PA obit:
[8/10/1935 12/18/2018]
1964 admitted on trial, Erie Conference EUB
Interment:
Obit:
1962-64 Lake
Pleasant
1964-66 Great
Valley
1966-68 Grand
Valley
1968 transfer
to Mennonite Church
1969-70 Skinners
Eddy, Wyoming Conference
1970-71 Little
Cooley, Erie Conference (former EUB)
1971 transfer
Western Pennsylvania Conference
1971-72 Little
Cooley
1972-78 Sligo
Cherry Run
1978-79 Brush
Valley
1979-83 West
Elizabeth Elrama
1983-89 Deckards
Sugar Lake
1989-92 Clearfield,
Central Pennsylvania Conference
1992 retired
1992-99 Pleasantview
Hebron Harrisville Wesley
1999-01 New
Ireland Lake Pleasant
Note: Mrs. Sheerer was a local pastor in the Western
Pennsylvania Conference.
SHEESLEY, ROBERT EARL SR.
Born: 6-1-1919 Punxsatawney PA married: Anna Emma Bowman (6/1/1943)
Died: 4-27-2007 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 293
1946 admitted on trial, recommended by Mt. Hope of the Philadelphia Conference
1947 ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference
1948 ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference
Interment: [North Carolina?]
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 429
1944-50 Mt. Hope Quarryville Wesley
(beginning 10/1/1944)
1950-52
Philadelphia Mount Hermon
Twenty-Second Street
1952-56 Trainer
1956-65 Pen Argyl
1956-70 Middletown Wesley
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference by change of boundary
1970-71 Middletown Wesley
1971-79 Hanover First
1979-86 Clearfield Trinity
1986 retired
1986-93 Quarryville
Wesley
SHEFFLER, SAMUEL LEE
Born: married: Sharon _____
Died: obit:
1972 license
1975 ordained deacon
1978 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1972-73 Barts Green Springs
1973-90 Fetteroffs Mount Union (beginning
10/1/1973)
1990-00 Mercersburg
2000-08 superintendent, Lewisburg District
2008-11 Williamsport First
2011 retired
2013-14 Chambersburg
First (beginning 11/1/2013)
SHELLENBERGER, JOHN LLOYD JR.
Born: married: Merrilyn _____
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC
1980-84 Huntersville
1984-90 Duboistown
1990-94 associate, Hummelstown Trinity
1994-98 New Hope
1998-12 Carlisle First
2012-17 Lemoyne Grace
2017 retired
SHELLEY, J. THOMAS
Born: 2-28-1960 married: Janet Diffenderfer (a.k.a. Janet Kissinger)
Died: obit:
1983 ordained deacon, recommended by York Calvary
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1984-88 Windsor Area Larger Parish Bittersville, Freysville (ending 9/15/1988)
1984-86 Windsor Emmanuel
1988-89 on leave (beginning 9/15/1988)
1989 withdrew (10/31/1989)
1989 transfer to Lutheran Church
(12/27/198)
1989-14 Seven Valleys Zion (Shaffers)
Lutheran
Note:
J. Thomas Shelley reportedly also worked with the Salvation Army and 4/10/2022
was ordained a deacon in the Greek Orthodox Church.
SHENBERGER, VERNON EUGENE
Born: married: Joyce Marie Winemiller
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 359
1993 license, recommended by Selinsgrove Christ
Interment:
Obit:
1993-95 New Berlin Emmanuel
1995-99 New Berlin Emmanuel Freeburg
1999-00 Freeburg
2000-13 Richfield
2013 retired
2013-22 Hallam
Faith
2022-23 Felton
SHOCKLEY, GARY A.
Born: married: Kim _____
Died: obit:
1976 license, recommended by Skyline View Mt. Calvary
1982 ordained deacon
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-80 Harrisburg Riverside
1980-84 ?
1984-90 Austin
1990-91 student (ending 10/1/1991)
1991 transfer out
1991-19 ?
2019-22 director, Equipping Vital
Congregations (ending 12/31/2021)
[2020 transfer
in 9/22/2020]
2022 retired 1/1/2022
SHOPE, PATRICIA E.
Born: married: Craig Shope
Died: obit:
2016 license
Interment:
Obit:
2016-21 Spruce Creek (beginning 5/15/2016)
2021- Huntingdon 12th Street
2023- McConnellstown
Mill Creek
SHOVER, MARK ROBERT
Born: married: Heidi _____
Died: obit:
1994 ordained deacon, recommended by Harrisburg Colonial Park
1997 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-95 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1995-01 Laurelton
2001-07 Wellsboro
2007-22 Waynesboro Faith
2022 retired
Note:
Mark R. Shover is the son of Donald R. Shover of the United Brethren database.
SHRECKENGAST, DANIEL D.
Born: married: Linda Marie Whitehill
Died: obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 431
2004 license, recommended by Millheim St. Lukes
Interment:
Obit:
2004-08 Curtin (10/1/2004 9/1/2008)
2008 discontinued (9/1/2008), see
2009,237
Note:
Daniel D. Shreckengast is a cousin to Rev. George Ervin Shreckengast
(1939-2016) of the Church of the Nazarene.
SHULTZ, DAVID KENT
Born: married: Jean _____
Died: obit:
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Sunbury Otterbein
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-86 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1986-93 Liberty
1993-96 West Milton
1996-00 chaplain, Wellsboro Soldiers/Sailors
Hospital
2000-13 Pine Creek Valley
2013-18 Witmers
2018-22 Winterstown
2022-23 Elimsport Valley Parish
SHUTT, ANNETTE Y.
Born: married: Gene Shutt
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Muir Grace
Interment:
Obit:
2004-23 Wiconisco Calvary
2013-23 Tower City Christ
2018-23 Williamstown Muir Grace
SIEG, JERRY CHRISTOPHER
Born: married: Karlyn _____
Died: obit:
1987 ordained deacon, recommended by New Oxford
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1987-93 Castanea Farrandsville
1993-95 Lock Haven Larger Parish 2
1995-22 chaplain, US Army (ending 2/7/22)
2022-23 on leave (beginning 2/7/22)
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
SIIKANEN, LARRY EDWARD
Born: 7-7-1962 Grand Rapids MN married: Sharon L. Thompson (12/18/1983)
Died: 1-2-2022 Danville PA obit:
2000 ordained deacon, recommended by Oval
2003 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 367
1991-93 associate, Lock Haven Covenant
1993-99 Wallis Run
1999-07 Belleville Watts Memorial
2007-08 Coudersport
2008-18 Winfield
2017-18 New Berlin
2018-22 Tiadaghton [Jersey Shore First & Phelps Chapel]
SIMON,
S. DAVID
Born: married:
Mabreen Diamond
Died:
obit:
Susquehanna Conference 216, 270
2001 ordained deacon, Delhi Conference
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2001-02 Danville St. Pauls Emmanuel
(beginning 10/1/2001), CPa Conference
2002 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
2002-09 Danville St. Pauls Emmanuel
2009-12 York Haven
2012-13 Mechanicsburg Mt. Olivet Wesley
2013-14 Middletown Ebenezer
2014-21 Lycoming parish
2021 retired
SLAYBAUGH, DONALD RODNEY JR.
Born: married: Susan D. Jamison
Died: obit: [divorced]
married2: Kathy _____
obit2:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by Yorkshire
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1982-85 Hustontown
1985-90 Westfield
1990-94 associate, State College St. Pauls
1994-99 Sunbury Albright
1999-08 Winfield Trinity
1999-06
New Berlin Emmanuel
2008-14 New Cumberland Trinity
2014-19 York Asbury
2019 retired
2020-22 Dillsburg
Mt. Zion (beginning 8/8/2020)
Note:
Donald R. Slaybaugh was married to Susan D. Jamison.
SLEDGE, HANNAH PRATT
Born: married: Kristopher R. Sledge
Died: obit:
2017 license, recommended by Harrisville
2020 provisional elder
2022 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2017-19 Chambersburg St. Johns
2019-20 unappointed ((ending 12/31/2019)
2020-22 Mechanicsburg Aldersgate (beginning
1/1/2020)
2022-23 Mechanicsburg Hope
Note:
Hannah P. Sledge is married to Krostopher R. Sledge
SLEDGE, KRISTOPHER R.
Born: married: Hannah Pratt
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Hummels Wharf Christ Community
2018 provisional elder
2021 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2015-18 State Line (ending 12/31/2018)
2018-19 extension ministry: The Gathering (beginning 1/1/2019)
2019-23 Harrisburg The Journey
SLEMP, JEFFERY A. JR
Born: married: Theresa _____
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Martinsville Salem
Interment:
Obit:
2009-23 Shrewsbury Grace
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Jeffery Slemp served as a local pastor.
SLOSS, WILLIAM L.
Born: married: Colleen _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Snowshoe
Interment:
Obit:
2005-08 Forest Emmanuel
2008 retired
SMALL, STEVEN D. JR.
Born: married: Shaylene _____
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Tyrone Good Shepherd
Interment:
Obit:
2012-19 Southern Potter Charge
2019-23 State Line (ending 1/1/2023)
2023- Yeagertown Rhodes Memorial
Lake Park (beginning 1/1/2023)
SMEAL, WESLEY CREIGHTON
Born: 7-30-1915 West
Decatur
Died: 12-12-2005 obit:
1939 license,
1942 ordained
deacon,
1944 ordained elder,
Interment:
Obit: [biographical files]
1963 transfer
to Western Pennsylvania Conference of the
1963-65
1965-66
1967-73 East Freedom (beginning 1/1/1967)
1971-72
faculty,
1972-73
faculty,
1973 withdrew
1973-89 faculty, Penn View Bible Institute in Penns Creek PA
SMELTZER, RICHARD HARRY
Born:
3-7-1947 York PA married: Janet Marie Henry
(10/19/1968)
Died:
8-7-2016 ME obit:
admitted
on trial
ordained
deacon
ordained
elder
Interment:
Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit:
1970-75 Emigsville Longstown
transfer to United
Church of Christ
Dover Salem
2009 retired
Note:
Richard Smeltzer served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a lay
pastor.An obituary for Richard Smeltzer appears in the 8/14/2016 York Daily Record and Dispatch.
SMITH, DAVID EDWARD
Born: married: Karen _____
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by Lemoyne Grace
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 student, Wesley Theological Seminary
in Washington DC
1977-78 Sleepy
Creek, Baltimore Conference
1978-80 associate,
Boonsboro Mt. Nebo, Baltimore Conference
1980-84 Picture Rocks Huntsville
1984-14 chaplain, US Army (ending 3/1/2014);
on leave (beginning 3/1/2014)
2014-18 coordinator, Wounded Warrior Soul
Care Initiative
2018 retired
SMITH, DONALD J.
Born: married: Beverly _____
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Osceola Mills
2018 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2006-16 Morgan Run
2016-19 State College Park Forest Village
2019-23 Phillipsburg Trinity
2023- Curwensville
SMITH, RICHARD DAVID
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1984 ordained deacon
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-90 Hopewell
1990-93 associate, York Zion
1993-97 Picture Rocks Parish
1997-16 Hanover Grace
2016-19 York Aldersgate
2019-23 Gettysburg
SMITH, SEAN P.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Curwensville
Interment:
Obit:
2008-09 associate, Mountain Top [Clarence,
Moshannon, Pine Glen, Snowshoe]
2009-10 associate, West Branch
2010-18 Woodland Area
2018-23 Roseville Mainesburg
2024 discontinued (4/9/2024)
SMITH WILLIAM B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Scotland (beginning 5/31/2020)
2021-23 Fayetteville
Otterbein
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
William R. Smith served as a local pastor.
SNIDER, MARLIN LESTER
Born: married: Brenda _____
Died: obit:
1974 license, recommended by Fishburn
1975 ordained deacon
1978 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1974-79 Spring Run
1979-87 Altoona Otterbein
1987-94 Sunbury St. Johns
1994-03 Carlisle Grace
2003-09 superintendent, New Cumberland District
2009 retired
2009-10 director, Congregational Transformation
SNYDER, ERIC M.
Born: married: Jacquelyn
Died: obit:
2010 license
Interment:
Obit:
2010-17 Dillsburg Community [formerly
Arnolds]
2017-23 unappointed
SOLLENBERGER, ERIC L
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Harrisonville
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Eric L. Sollenbergere served as a local pastor
SOLLENBERGER, FLOYD SAMUEL JR.
Born: married: Cynthia _____
Died: obit:
1965 license
1970 ordained, recommended by Blosserville St. Marys
Interment:
Obit:
1965-66 Upper Strasburg
1966-70 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1967-70 Xenia OH Byron UCC (6/1967
5/1970)
1970-74 associate, Carlisle First
1974-89 Watsontown
1989-95 Valley View St. Andrews
1995-06 Millersburg Grace
2006 retired
SOMERVILLE, ANNE MICHELE
Born: married: Roger Somerville
Died: obit:
1996 license, recommended by Shrewsbury Grace
2004 provisional elder
2007 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1996-00 Endless Mountain Group Ministry 2
2000-04 North Towanda
2004-09 Bald Eagle
2009-18 New Visions Parish [Blossburg First
Covington]
2018 retired
2018-22 East
Canton
SOSA, RUBY HARKNESS
Born: married: James Sosa
Died: obit:
1994 ordained deacon, recommended by East Canton
1998 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-95 student, Gordon-Conwell Seminary in
Massachusetts
1995-96 Endless Mountain Group Ministry 2
1996-07 Wrightsville Locust Street (ending 10/1/2007)
2007-08 on leave (10/1/2007 6/1/2008)
2008-12 Iola Shir, Texas Conference
(beginning 6/1/2008)
2012-13 student
2013-18 on leave
2018 retired
SOURS, SARAH C.
Born: married: Stephen Sours
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Kingston Church of Christ Uniting
Interment:
Obit:
2011-13 Ashley Centenary (beginning 9/1/2011)
2013-15 faculty, Hintingdon College in Alabama
Note
Sarah Sours is married to Stephen Sours in the Wyoming Conference data base.
SPANGLER, NORMAN E. [SKIP] III
Born: married: Delores Jean Lingafelt
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 368
1978 ordained deacon
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-81 student, Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts
1981-85 Columbia Circuit
1985-92 Lock Haven East Main Street Laurel Run
1992-02 Altoona Otterbein
2002-12 York Otterbein
2012-18 Enola Mt. Zion
2018 retired
2018-23 Glen Rock
SPEARLY, DAVID J.
Born: married: Carol _____
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Williamsport First
Interment:
Obit:
2007-12 Williamsport First (4/1/2007
12/31/2012)
2012 retired (12/31/2012)
SPEELMAN, JAMES RAY
Born: married: Rosalie
Died: obit:
1982 license, recommended by Romney WV First
1985 ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference
1989 ordained elder, West Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1981-84 Hampshire
1984-90 Capon Bridge
1990-92 McConnellstown, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1992 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1992-96 McConnellstown
1996-99 Troy First
1999-11 Upper Adams Parish
2011-13 South Mountain
2013 Peach Bottom (ending 11/7/2013)
2013-20 medical leave (beginning 11/7/2013)
2020 retired
SPERAZZA, EUGENE D.
Born: married: Dal _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Luzerne
Interment:
Obit:
2013-20 Wilkes-Barre Albright (ending
12/31/2019)
2015-20 Wilkes-Barre
Central (ending 12/31/19)
2020 retired (1/1/2020)
2020-23 Chaplain,
Wesley Village (beginning 1/1/2020)
SPERTZEL, LUTHER R.
Born: married: Shirley _____
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Mt. Victory
Interment:
Obit:
2002-06 Columbia Circuit
2006 retired
2006-08 West
Fairview
SPRENKLE, CHARLES WILLIAM
Born: married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
1986 ordained deacon, recommended by Red Lion Bethany
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-85 Violet Hill
1985-92 Windsor Emmanuel
1992-95 Jefferson Greenmount
1995-02 Lemoyne Calvary
2002-05 Lewistown Grace
2005-08 Halifax
2008-16 Manchester St. Paul
2016 retired
2016-17 Hanover Grace
2017-19 Forge Hill
2019-20 York Asbury
2020-23 Forge Hill
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(6/22/2023)
ST. MARTIN, KEVIN ROBERT
Born: married: Leticia Covarrubias
Died: obit:
1997 license, recommended by State College St. Pauls
1999 provisional elder
2002 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1997-00 Port Matilda
2000-08 Unity Parish [Julian Christ Grays Martha Ross]
2008-13 Harrisburg Derry Street
2013-14 unappointed
2014-20 Pennsdale Huntersville
2019-20 Clarkstown
2020-22 Clarks Green Chinchilla
2022-23 Hughesville The Beacon
STAMM, MARK WESLEY
Born: married: Margaret _____
Died: obit:
1979 license, recommended by Shippensburg Christ
1981 ordained deacon
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-80 Amberson
1980-82 Mt. Zion, Kentucky Conference
1982-85 Rouzerville
1985-90 associate, Chambersburg First
1990-94 student, Boston University School of Theology
1994-00 Roaring Spring Trinity
2000-08 faculty, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas TX
2008 transfer to North Texas Conference
Note:
Mark W. Stamm is the son of John W. Stamm and the grandson of John F. Stamm,
both given in the Central Pennsylvania Methodist files. He is the author of numerous book and
articles.
STAPLES, ERSEL D.
Born: married: Jennifer _____
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Cross Roads
2014 provisional elder
Interment:
Obit:
2004-11 Martinsville
2011-12 Mansfield
2012-15 Turkey Valley (ending 4/6/2015)
2013-22 medical leave (beginning 4/6/2015)
2022 discontinued
STARZ, JACQUELINE FLORENCE (FREEMAN)
Born: 8-6-1938 Carlisle PA married: Joseph Starz
Died: 6-24-2023 York County PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 364
1992 ordained deacon, recommended by Potosi Mt. Zion
1996 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Potosi PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 349
1989-92 Violet Hill
1992-03 Glen Rock Immanuel
1992-97 St.
Johns
2003 retired
2020-22 Potosi
Mt. Zion
STEBBINS, WAYNE GARY JR.
Born: 2-8-1938 Williamsport PA married: Janice Mary Brucklacher
Died: 7-8-2014 Cogan Station PA obit:
1990 ordained deacon, recommended by Balls Mills Rose Valley
Interment: Brucklacher Cemetery, Hepburn township, Lycoming
County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 276
1987-91 South Williamsport Christ
1991-95 Swissdale (ending 10/1/1995)
1995-00 Linden (beginning10/1/1995)
2000 retired
2003-04 Ralston (beginning 10/1/2003)
2004-05 Williamsport Grace (beginning1/1/2005)
2009-10 Balls Mills (beginning 2/1/2010)
2011-12 Hughesville Bethany (beginning 2/4/2012)
Note:
Wayne G. Stebbins was called to the ministry in 1988 after a career in the
business world.
STEVENS, BERNICE DAVIS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1988 ordained deacon
1992 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-89 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1989-92 State College Bethune Memorial
1992-94 conference approved evangelist
1994 retired
STEVENS, LOURDES S.
Born: married: Paul Stevens
Died: obit:
2016 license
Interment:
Obit:
2016-17 associate, Hanover Grace (5/1/2016
8/16/2017)
2017-19 Druck Valley (beginning 8/16/2017)
2019-20 unappointed
2020-21 Dillsburg Mt. Airy
2021-22 York Grace
2022 unappointed (ending 8/1/2022)
2022 discontinued 8/1/2022
STEWART, LAURA
Born:
9-25-1981 married:
Christopher L. Minella
Died:
obit:
[divorce]
2006 license, recommended by Duboistown
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2006-14 Fort Loudon Edenville
2014-22 Mechanicsburg Hope (ending 4/23/2022)
2022 withdrew [SHELLEY] 4/23/2022,
see 2022,190
Note:
Laura Stewart was married to Christopher L. Minella for several years, during
which time she was known as LAURA MINELLA.
According to the 2022 journal, page 201, this name should change from
Laura MINELLA to Laura STEWART to Laura SHELLEY.
STINE, MICHAEL L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1984 ordained deacon, recommended by Coburn St. James
1987 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-88 Monroeton
1988-89 on leave
1989-92 student, Northwestern University
1992-94 McElhattan
1994-05 associate, Hummelstown Trinity
2005-11 Selinsgrove Wesley
2011-16 on leave
2016-21 Forty Fort
2021-23 Milton St. Andrews
STOKES, ROBERT PAUL
Born: married: Jean _____
Died: obit:
1954 license, recommended by Shamokin St. Johns
1956 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference (EV)
Interment:
Obit:
1954-56 student, Evangelical Theological Seminary
1954-56 Deer Park Community, Ottawa IL
1956-58 Catasauqua - Nazareth
1958-62 Hegins Muir
1962-70 Millersburg Grace (ending 12/1/1969)
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by change of boundaries
1970-82 Hummelstown Trinity (1/1/1970 9/1/1982)
1982-88 superintendent, Stat College District (beginning 9/1/1982)
1988-94 Red Lion Bethany
1994 retired
1998-99 interim, Hershey First (beginning 11/1/1998)
2000-06 assistant, Hummelstown Grace
Note: Robert P. Stokes is the father of Beth Stokes Jones.
STONGE, GERALD ROBERT
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1973-74 Espy
Note: Gerald R. Stonge is the son of Forest R. Stonge of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist pastor data base.
STOUFFER, BRENT A.
Born: married: Sarah _____
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Hanover First
2014 provisional elder
2016 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2011-17 Clarks Green
2017-23 Marion First
STOUGH, DAVID W.
Born: married: Amanda _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Manchester St. Paul
2006 provisional elder
2009 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2005-10 Susquehanna Valley
2010-22 Fawn Grove
2022-23 Dallastown Bethlehem
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
STRAYER, JUDY L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1987 ordained deacon
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-87 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1985-87 associate,
Dayton OH Community
1987-89 Rutherford Christ
1989-90 associate, Hanover First
1990-95 Mifflinburg Wesley
1995-97 CPE residency
1997-98 Pinnacle Health System
1998-00 CPE, York Health System
2000-11 chaplain, Carroll County General
Hospital
2011-21 chaplain, Cumberland Crossings
Retirement Village
2021 withdrew 12/9/2021, see 2022,190
STROZYK, ROBERT WILLIAM
Born: married: Louise _____
Died: obit:
1994 license, recommended by Grover St. Johns
2005 provisional elder
2008 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1994-96 Harrison Valley
1996-97 Whitneyville
1997-99 Mountainview Ministry Link
1999-06 Mifflinville Hetlerville
2006-09 Lawrenceville
2009-12 Everett Area Coperative Ministry
2012-23 Mill-Green
STUMP, ROBERT E.
Born: married: Glenda _____
Died: obit:
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Mifflintown Aldersgate
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1984-87 Enders Powells Valley
1987-91 Roseville
1991-92 Mifflinburg St. Pauls
1992-96 Bigler
1996-05 Dellville
2005-06 Williamstown
2006-10 Sunbury Catawissa Avenue
2010-15 Bellwood Tipton
2016-17 Clearfield Trinity
2017-19 Williamsport Third Street Trinity
Duboistown
2019-23 Walnut Bottom
STUTLER, ELIZABETH B.
Born: married: Stephen Stutler
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Towanda First
2008 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
2001-04 Middlebury Parish
2004-13 Witmers
2013-17 Mapleton Parish
2017-20 Osceola Sandy Ridge
2020 retired
SUNDERLAND, JAMES ROBERT
Born: married: Janice _____
Died: obit:
1964 license
1972 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1971-72 Entriken Russellville
1972-77 Trough Creek Valley Parish
1977-85 Elimsport
1985-89 Clearfield Centre Grove
1989-97 Pine Grove McAllisterville
1997-07 Balls Mills
2007-10 New Freedom
2010 retired
2010-14 Unityville Charge
Note:
James M. Sunderland is a great-nephew of Robert M. Sunderland of the Methodist
files.
SWANGER, JEFFREY SCOTT
Born: 7-31-1943 Lewistown PA married: Nancy Jane Brown
Died: 12-23-2021 Mechanicsburg obit:
1984 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
1995 ordained deacon
1999 ordained elder
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 369
1984-87 Mt. Airy Mt, Zion (beginning 10/1984, ending 9/1/1987)
1987-92 Catawissa Parish (beginning 9/1/1987)
1992-95 Valley Parish (Spring Run)
1995-00 Rouzerville
2000-06 Sunbury St. Johns
2006-11 York Trinity
2011-14 Dillsburg Calvary
2014 retired
2015-18 Dillsburg Mt. Zion (beginning 1/1/2015)
Note:
Jeffrey S. Swanger worked for TRW in Harrisburg for 20 years before entering
the MInistry
SWANGER, LOGAN GARTH
Born: married: Pai _____
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by New Berlin Emmanuel
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-81 Carawissa Parish
1981-85 Osceola Mills
1985-88 Altoona Garden Heights Lakemont
1988-99 Williamsport Calvary
1988-94 High Street
1994-99 associate,
St. Johns
1999-04 Hanover Lohrs Memorial
2004-10 Middletown Evangelical
2010-11 Winterstown
2011-21 Shiremanstown
2021 retired
2023 disaffiliated
SWENSON, SALLIE
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
Interment:
Obit:
2011-12 Clearfield Christ
Note:
Sallie Swenson served as a certified lay minister.
SWIGART, KARI I.
Born: married: Stephen C. Swigart
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Belleville Watts Memorial
Interment:
Obit:
2002-17 Lewistown Trinity
2017-19 unappointed
2019-20 Belleville Watts Memorial (beginning 1/1/2020)
2020-23 unappointed
Note:
Kari I. Swigart is married to Stephen C. Swigart.
SWIGART, STEPHEN C.
Born: married: Kari _____
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Belleville Watts Memorial
Interment:
Obit:
2007-20 Vira Wagner
2020-23 Belleville Watts Memorial
Note:
Stephen C. Swigart is married to Kari I. Swigart.
SWIMLEY, MICHAEL S.
Born: married: Heather _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Westfield
2002 provisional elder
2005 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2001-04 Ramey
2004-12 Montoursville Bethel
2012-17 Faxon-Kenmar
2017-23 Port Trevorton
TAYLOR, ELIZABETH D.
Born: married: Thomas G. Taylor
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Peckville
Interment:
Obit:
2013-23 Tompkinsville (beginning 1/1/2013)
Note:
Elizabeth D. Taylor is married to Thomas G. Taylor.
TAYLOR, ELIZABETH R.
Born: married: Andrew Taylor
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Elimsport St. Johns
2013 provisional elder
2015 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2012-13 Altoona Broad Avenue Mardorf
2013-16 Mifflinburg
2016-20 Sugar Valley
2020-25 on leave
TAYLOR, THOMAS G. JR.
Born: married: Elizabeth D. _____
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Mt. Zion Orange
2021-23 Dunmore Scranton Asbury
Note:
Thomas G. Taylor is the son of Thomas G. Taylor of the Wyoming Conference. He is married to Elizabeth D. Taylor.
TAYLOR, WYATT A.
Born: married: Jennifer _____
Died: obit:
2008 license, recommended by Greencastle First
Interment:
Obit:
2008-12 Duncannon Asbury Roseglen
2012-16 Millerstown (ending 3/31/2016)
2016-17 on leave (beginning 4/1/2016 and ending 4/31/2017)
2017-23 Turkey Valley (beginning 5/1/2017)
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Wyatt A. Taylor served as a local pastor.
TEMPLETON, TODD EDWARD
Born: c1962 married: Judy E. Pennington.
Died: obit:
2001 license
Interment:
Obit:
1997-2005 Saxton-Coalmont
2005 no longer listed
Note:
Todd E. Templeton served as a local preacher.
He was raised in Tyrone, worked for Vail Water Association in Tyrone,
and reportedly lives there as of 2025.
He was employed circa 2007 as the Tyrone junior high assistant football
coach and has officiated at funerals after 2005 as Pastor Todd E. Templeton.
TERRY, JOINATHAN C. III
Born: married: Cherrie _____
Died: obit:
1977 ordained deacon, Church of God
1984 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-81 Linglestown [Church of God]
(beginning 12/1/1976)
1981 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference UMC
1981-85 Tower City
1985-87 Harrisburg Uptown Shared Ministry
1987-91 Harrisburg First Otterbein
1991-97 Mifflintown
1997-04 Shippensburg Christ
2004-07 Altoona Jaggard Fifth Avenue
2007-08 on leave
2008 retired
THIGPEN, EDWARD LESTER SR
Born: 6-16-1938 Baltimore MD married: Betsy Alice Bowman
Died: 5-5-2006 State College PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 371
1956 license, recommended by Monroe Street, Baltimore Conference
1960 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference
1963 ordained elder, Baltimore Conference
Interment: Schencks Cemetery, Howard PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 430
1956-59 student, Western Maryland College
1959-63 student, Wesley Seminary in Washington DC
1961-62 Cape St. Clair
1963-64 Idlewylde
1964-66 Darlington
1966-72 on
leave
1972-81 located
1976-80 Adamsville, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1980-81 Sugar Creek, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1981 re-admitted to full connection, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1981-89 Sugar Creek
1989-95 Faxon-Kenmar
1995-96 disability leave
1996-99 Heshbon Park
1999-06 Castanea
Note: For most of his career Edward Thigpen served part-time
while working in various businesses and/or dealing with health issues.
THOMAS, JENNIFER DEUTSH
Born: married: Andrew Thomas
Died: obit:
2001 provisional elder, recommended by Carlisle Allison
2004 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2001-04 Allenport
2004-14 Harrisburg Mt. Calvary
2014-17 Dover New Creation (ending 9/1/2017)
2017-23 on leave (beginning 9/1/2017)
Note:
Jennifer Deutsch Thomas is the daughter of Barry L. Deutsch
THUMMA, MARK R.
Born: married: Darlene _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by Oberlin Neidig Memorial
Interment:
Obit:
2005-15 Phillipsburg Grace Sandy Ridge St. Pauls
2015 retired
TILLOTSON, GAIL MOGEL
Born: 10-10-1941 Philadelphia PA married: William Michael Tillotson
Died: 4-1-2025 Elizabethtown PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 371
? license, recommended by Hamburg
1979 ordained deacon, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
1984 ordained elder, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 352
1991-94 Amberson, Central Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 11/1/1991)
1994 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1994-98 Amberson & PA Council of Churches
1998-00 Mt. Pisgah Shared Ministry
2000-02 Martinsville (ending 12/31/2001)
2002-07 on leave (beginning 1/1/2002)
2007 retired
TORGERSEN, SAMANTHA -- see McELWEE, SAMANTHA
TOBIAS, JOSHUA A.
Born: married: Angie _____
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 Woodbury Faith (beginning 8/23/2020)
TORRES, REBECCA L. [see HOLLAND, REBECCA]
TOWSEY, LESLIE P.
Born: married: Carla _____
Died: obit:
2001 provisional elder, recommended by Matamoras
2004 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2001-05 Catawissa Parish
2005-12 Mechanicsburg Hope
2012-20 Charlton
2020-23 Fishing Creek Salem
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
TREAS, JOYCE MARIE
Born: married: Michael Treas
Died: obit:
1996 ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport Thirst Street
2000 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1991-92 assistant, Lock Haven Parish
1992-97 Unityville
1997-02 Mansfield First
2002-04 Gettysburg
2004-13 Paddletown St. Pauls
2013 retired
TREAT, NETTIE B.
Born: married: Lloyd Treat
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Trinity Parish
Interment:
Obit:
2004-06 New Creation [Windfall and Faith
Community (Big Pond-Wetona)]
2006 retired
TREGO, ROBERT CHARLES JR.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1976 license
1979 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-78 assistant, Tower City Muir (beginning 4/1/1977)
1980-85 Keystone-Perry
1985-87 assistant, Lemoyne Grace
1987-91 Laurelton
1991-92 Yoe (ending 5/1/1992)
1992-98 disability leave (beginning 5/1/1992)
1998-00 Renovo Westport
2000-01 Ramey
2001-21 incapacity leave
2021 retired
Note:
Robert C. Trego Jr. is the son of Robert C. Trego Sr.
TREGO, ROBERT CHARLES SR.
Born: 2-11-1928 Sunbury PA married: C. Louise _____
Died: 1-9-2017 Middletown PA obit:
1963 license
1964 ordained, East Pennsylvania (EV) Conference
Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Indiantown Gap
PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 295
1961-64 Birdsboro Trinity Grace
1964-65 Birdsboro Christ (union of Trinity & Grace)
1965-70 Royalton Emmanuel
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-77 Royalton Emmanuel
1977-83 Bellefonte Trinity
1983-90 Lewistown Grace
1990 retired
Note:
Robert C. Trego Sr. is the father of Robert C. Trego Jr.
TRESSLER, CHARLES THOMAS
Born: 5-21-1943 Perry County PA married: Susan E. Gribler
Died: 7-24-2018 Lewisburg PA obit:
1966 license, recommended by Newport Calvary
1969 ordained
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 349
1966-69 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1968-69 youth
minister, Ohio Miami Conference
1969-72 Linden
1972-76 Cocolamus
1976-79 associate, Hershey First
1979-81 Tower City Christ
1981-86 Millville
1986-91 Danville St. Pauls Emmanuel
1991-99 Liverpool
1999-05 White Deer
2005 retired
TRIMER, GORDON T.
Born: married: Karen _____
Died: obit:
2013 license, recommended by Alexandria Hope
Interment:
Obit:
2012-13 Canoe Creek Union (beginning
6/1/2013)
2013-23 Royer
TRIMMER, MICHAEL GENE
Born: married: Marie
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon
1984 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 youth director, Bethesda MD Concord St. Andrews: Baltimore-Washington Conf.
1980-83 Clearville
1983-88 Big Pond
1988-92 Harveyville
1992-00 Houserville Woodycrest
2000-04 Clearfield Trinity
2004-17 Gatchelville Crossroads
2017 retired
TROSTLE, DAVID WAYNE
Born: married: Soonseeah _____
Died: obit:
1983 ordained deacon
1986 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1983-84 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1984-88 Castanea Farrandsville
1988-92 Muhlenburg
1992-01 Royalton Emmanuel
2001-04 Howard Main Street
2004-08 Lemoyne Calvary
2008-22 Farragut Fairfield
2022 retired
TROXELL, BARBARA A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1996 license, recommended by Altoona First
Interment:
Obit:
1996-97 Harison Valley
1997-00 Mt. Pisgah Shared Ministry
2000-03 Snow Shoe
2003-06 Mapleton Parish
2006 retired
2006-09 Altoona
Llyswen
2009-10 Altoona
Broad Avenue
TRUTT, LYNN DOUGLAS
Born: married: Eileen _____
Died: obit:
1977 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-79 student, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
1977-79 Oceola OH, East Ohio Conference
1979-83 East Freedom
1983-92 Montoursville Bethel
1992-94 Bellefonte Trinity
1994-97 Uriah
1997-07 Waynesboro Faith
2007 retired
TUCKER, FREDERICK CLARENCE
Born: 9-1-1919 MD married: Charlotte Josephine Murray
Died: 9-9-1993 obit: [4/23/1920 7/20/1989]
license
Interment: Little Cove Methodist Cemetery, Mercersburg PA
Obit:
1980-90 Warfordsburg
Note:
Fred Tucker served as a supply preacher.
Personal details are avaiable in the Warfordsburg closed church file.
TURPISH, BARBARA ANNE
Born: married: John Turpish
Died: obit:
1992 ordained deacon, recommended by Bellefonte Faith
1997 ordained elder, Western Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1991-94 Snow Shoe (12/1/1991 2/1/1994)
1994 on leave (2/1/1994 7/1/1994)
1994-95 Freedom Conway, Western Pennsylvania Conference
1995 transfer to Western Pennsylvania
Conference (4/1/1995)
1995-97 Freedom
1997-02 on leave
2002-04 Candice NY, Western New York
Conference
2004-21 on leave
2021 retired
TYSON, VIOLA C.
Born: 6-25-1930 Lock Haven PA married: Sydney Brown Tyson
Died: 2-13-2019 Williamsport PA obit: [1/18/1928 12/?/1975]
1980 ordained deacon, recommended by Flemington
1983 ordained elder
Interment: Dunnstown Cemetery, Dunnstown PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 350
1980-82 student, Duke Divinity School in
Durham NC
1982-90 Unityville
1990-93 West Decatur
1993 retired
Note:
Viola (nee Campbell) taught elementary school in the Keystone Central School
District before entering the ministry.
URBANSKI, KAREN B. [see ALLEN, KAREN B.]
VALENTIN, MANUEL
Born: married: Ruth Cruz
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Harrisburg Derry Street
Interment:
Obit:
2018-23 New Cumberland Community (beginning1/1/2018)
2023 disaffiliated
Note:
Manuel Valentin served as a local pastor.
VAN NATTA, ROBERT H.
Born: married: Dorothy _____
Died: obit:
1964 license, recommended by Cheverly Community Church
1968 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1967-68 intern, Philadelphia Juniate Park
1968-71 assistant, Red Lion St. Pauls
1971-83 Scotland Salem
1983-86 South Williamsport
1986-88 Pleasant Valley Parish
1988-90 Gardners Mt. Victory
1990-92 Mackeyville
1992-94 Oriole
1994-99 Greater Shawville Parish
1999-07 Claysburg
2007 retired
VANZANDT, JAMES EUGENE
Born: married: Amy _____
Died: obit:
1985 ordained deacon, recommended by Dallastown Bethlehem
1988 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1985-86 student, Lancaster Theological
Seminary
1986-93 North Bend
1993-95 Lock Haven Larger Parish
1995-03 Lock Haven Covenant
2003-12 Red Lion Bethany
2012-13 Carlisle Grace (merged into Carlisle)
2013-20 Carlisle
VAUX, DONNA LYNNE
Born: married: Kenneth Vaux
Died: obit:
1995 license, recommended by Grays
Interment:
Obit:
1995-02 Morgan Run
2002-13 Bellwood Pinecroft
2013-16 Mountainview Parish
2016 retired
VELEZ-IRIZARRY, SAMUEL
Born: married: Diane -----
Died: obit:
1991 ordained deacon
1993 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1989-90 chaplain, Cincinnati OH Childrens Hospital Medical Center
1990-93 York First Spanish
1993-96 Harrisburg Allison Hill Group Ministry
1996-99 Harrisburg Derry Street
1999-04 East Prospect
2004-12 Hanover Lohrs Memorial
2012-14 Mechanicsburg Hope
2014-17 Forge Hill
2017 retired
2022-23 New
Freedom Trinity (beginning 8/29/2022)
VIZTHUM, LAYNE MILLER
Born: married: Robert Vizthum
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-22 Chambersburg Park Avenue (starting 4/1/2019)
2019-22 Chambersburg St. Johns
2022-23 Newburg
2023 retired
Note:
Layne Miller Vizthum is married to Robert A. Vizthum.
VIZTHUM, ROBERT ARTHUR
Born: married: Eileen Francis Joyce (8/8/1981)
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017,295
married2: Layne Miller
obit2:
1991 ordained deacon, recommended by Harrisburg Colonial Park
1996 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1992-98 Fowlersville Lime Ridge
1998-03 Altoona Greenwood
2003-09 Pine Grove
2009-15 Red Lion Chapel
2015-19 York Messiah
2019-20 Liverpool NY First, Upper New York
Conference
2020-24 Shippensburg Messiah
2024 retired
2024
withdrew 7/18/2024
Note:
Robert A. Vizthum is married to Layne Miller Vizthum.
WAGNER, MAUREEN ANNETTE (SCHAEFFER)
Born: 11-13-1948 Lewisburg PA married: Robert Wagner (8/22/1970)
Died: 2-11-2013 Danville PA obit:
1999 ordained deacon, recommended by Witmers
2002 ordained elder
Interment: Witmers Memorial Cemetery, Port Trevorton PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 273
1995-97 Mifflinburg St. Pauls
1997-02 associate, Juniata Parish
2002-13 Juniata Area Group Ministry
Note:
WAKELEY,
JEFFREY D.
Born: married:
Colleen _____
Died: obit:
1987 license, recommended by Idabel OK First
1989 ordained deacon, Oklahoma Conference
1993 ordained elder, Oklahoma Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1994-95 Northumberland Trinity, Central
Pennsylvania Conference
1995 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1995-02 Northumberland Trinity
2002-05 Middletown Wesley
2005-08 Altoona Greenwood
2008 retired
WALENT,
IRENE R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2021 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Towanda Luthers Mills
WALKER,
DAVID ALVIN
Born: married:
Judy _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Bald Eagle Valley
Community
Interment:
Obit:
1997-99 Half Moon
1999-04 Fillmore
2004-13 Airville McKendree
2013-18 West Pittston First
2018-19 unappointed
2019-20 Scranton Elm Park (ending 1/1/20)
2020-20 Wilkes Barre Albright and Central
(beginning 1/1/2020)
2020-23 Dallas
2022-23 Alderson
Note:
David A. Walker is married to Judy L. Walker.
WALKER,
ELIZABETH ANN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1997 license, recommended by Hannibal MO Park
1998 ordained deacon
2001 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-00 New Millport
2000-06 Delta Bryansville
2006-10 Oberlin Neidig Memorial (ending
6/14/2010)
2010 on leave (6/15/2020 to
10/31/2010)
2010-16 Oberlin Neidig Memorial (beginning
(11/1/2010)
2016 retired
WALKER,
JUDY L.
Born: married:
David A. Walker
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Fillmore
2010 provisional elder
2012 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2005-06 Windsor Grace (beginning
1/1/2006)
2016-13 Delta Bryansville
2013-19 Shavertown
2019-23 superintendent, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
district
Note:
Judy L. Walker is married to David A. Walker.
WALL-LOVE,
KRISTEN M.
Born: married:
Bob _____
Died: obit:
2012 provisional elder, recommended by Beach Lake
2014 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2012-17 Port Trevorton
2017-23 adult ministry, Salisbury MD Asbury,
Baltimore-Washington Conference
WALLACE, BRIAN H.
Born: married: Jennifer Lynn _____
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 350
2015 license, recommended by Elm Park
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2015-16 Scranton St. Pauls
2016-19 Greentown Hemlock Grove and Sterling
2019-22 Dorranceton Luzerne (ending 11/1/2021)
2022 discontinued (see 2022,182)
WALLACE,
R. BRUCE
Born: married:
Zelma Lang
Died: obit:
1980 license, recommended by Wagner SD
1982 ordained deacon, South Dakota
Conference
1984 ordained elder, South Dakota Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1980-85 Wagner Delmont
1985-86 Wall Wasta Quinn
1986 transfer to North Arkansas
Conference
1986-88 Paragould Shiloh Stanford
1988-93 Milesburg, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1993 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1993-94 Milesburg
1994-95 on leave
1995-16 Lock Haven East Main Street,
Castanea, Laurel Run
[2014 Lock Haven East Main Street and
Castanea merge to form Faith]
2016 retired
2016-23 Nisbet
2016-23 assisting elder, State College district
WALLACE, ROBERT G.
Born: married: Rose
Died: obit:
1980 ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport St. Johns
1982 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1979-80 Williamsport Eagle
1980-83 Linden
1983-95 Loyalsock Charge
1995-04 Williamsport Third Street
2004-11 York Calvary
2011 retired
2015-18 Williamsport Heshbon Park
WALTER, BRENDA LEE
Born: married: Allen Walter
Died: obit:
1986 ordained deacon, recommended by Lewisburg Beaver Memorial
1989 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1987-89 associate, Lewistown Grace
1989-91 Rouzerville (ending 7/7/1991)
1991 withdrew 7/7/1991
Note:
Brenda Walter moved to a career in social services and om 1/1/2002 she became
pastor of the Fairfield Mennonite Church, Franklin County PA, where she had
been a member for the past seven years.
WALTER, OWEN HARVEY
Born: 2-22-1941 Snyder County PA married: Paula A. Barley
Died: 4-1-2025 York PA obit:
1964 license, recommended by Penns Creek Zion
1967 ordained
Interment: Heiland View Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 354
1967-69 Walkersville
1969-82 Boiling Springs
1982-94 Red Lion Chapel
1994-04 York Calvary
2004 retired
WALTERS, DONALD C.
Born: married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
1999 license, recommended by East Salem Otterbein charge
2007 associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1999-09 East Waterford
2009-15 Geyers
2015 retired
2017-18 East Salem Otterbein (beginning 7/15/2017)
2019 East Salem Otterbein (from 3/6/2019 to 4/1/2019)
2020-23 Locust Run Thompsontown (beginning 10/1/2020)
2023 disaffiliated
WARD, JEAN M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Fishburn
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2011-12 Rebersburg
2012-22 Reedsville Church Hill
2017-22 Milroy
2022-23 Jefferson - Greenmount
WARD, JENNIFER C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Coldwater MI
Interment:
Obit:
2017-23 Wolfsburg Trans Run
WARFLE, RONALD ANDREW
Born: married: Carol _____
Died: obit:
? ordained, Church of the Nazarene
Interment:
Obit:
1994-98 Catawissa circuit, Central Pennsylvania Conference UMC
1998 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1998-00 Mifflinburg St. Pauls Wesley
2000-13 Mifflinburg [union of St. Pauls and Wesley, continuing at Wesley]
2013 retired
2013-17 New Berlin Emmanuel
WARGO, JOSHUA STEPHEN.
Born: 10-29-1987 married: Whitney _____
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Dorranceton
2017 provisional elder
2019 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2014-16 Phelps Chapel
2016-19 Rouzerville
2019-23 Red Lion Chapel
2023 disaffiliated
2024 withdrawn
(7/1/2023)
WATERS, RICHARD D.
Born: married: Suzanne _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Williamsport First
Interment:
Obit:
2001-20 associate, Williamsport First
2020 retired
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Richard D. Waters served as a local pastor.
WATKINS, DAVID A.
Born: married: Linda J. _____
Died: 5-26-2024 obit:
1982 license, recommended by Sandtown NH St. Matthews
1984 ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference
1988 ordained elder, New Hampshire Conference
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 350
1986-88 Epping Community
1988 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1988-93 Big Pond
1993-99 Lawrenceville
1999-12 Enola Mt. Zion
2012 retired
WATKINS, ERIC B.
Born: married: Rebecca _____
Died: obit:
2015 license
Interment:
Obit:
2014-18 Clifford (beginning 7/14/2014)
2018-20 East Lemon
2020-23 Jermyn - Montdale
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Eric B. Watkins served as a local preacher.
WAUGH, CONSTANCE ANN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1999 license, recommended by Ralston charge
Interment:
Obit:
1999-2014 Warrensville Heilman
2014 retired
2014-19 Clarkstown
WAYBRIGHT, JACOB ALLEN
Born: married: Susan _____
Died: obit:
2005 license, recommended by York St. Pauls
2005 provisional elder
2008 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2005-12 Middlesex
2012-16 associate, Camp Hill
2016-20 Montoursville Faith
2020-23 Carlisle
WEAVER, GARY D.
Born: married: Cindy _____
Died: obit:
1995 license, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street
1999 provisional elder
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1995-97 Loyalsockville
1997-99 Warrensville
1999-06 Lawrenceville Calvary
2006-09 Red Lion St. Pauls Chapel
2009-12 Hershey First
2012-18 Bloomsburg Wesley
2018-20 Camp Hill
2020-23 superintendent, Lewisburg District
2023- superintendent, Harrisburg
District
WEBSTER, KRISTI A.
Born: married: Stephen Webster
Died: obit:
2009 license, recommended by Niles Valley
Interment:
Obit:
2009-23 Niles Valley
WEEMS, CHRISTOPHER E.
Born: married: Brianna
Died: obit:
2020 license
2022 provisional elder
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2020-22 Williamsport Balls Mills
2022-23 Athens
WEIBLEY, JAMES EDWARD
Born: married: Cathy _____
Died: obit:
1989 ordained deacon, recommended by Harrisburg Colonial Park
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 Warfordsburg
1989-94 East Salem Otterbein
1994-95 Westfield Cowanesque (ending
10/15/1995)
1995-98 Grover Shunk (beginning 10/15/1995)
1998-03 Duboistown Nisbet
2003-08 Clearfield Centre Grove
2008-13 Antes Fort Oriole
2013-23 on leave
2024 withdrawn
(5/6/2024)
WEIGEL, MICHAEL C.
Born: married: Ruth Ann _____
Died: obit:
2003 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
Interment:
Obit:
2003-07 Mt. Rock
2007-12 Shippensburg Christ
2012-17 unappointed
2012-17 mission volunteer, UM Nomads
2017 retired
2024 discontinued (6/18/2024)
WEIRICH, JASON D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-23 White Deer
WEISS, KAREN L.
Born: married: Patrick Weiss
Died: obit:
2014 provisional deacon, recommended by State College St. Pauls
2017 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
2014-23 director, Waterworks Ministries
2014-16 Houserville
Woodycrest
2016-17 Burnham
Milroy
2022-23 Black
Oak Hannah (beginning 10/1/2022)
WEITKAMP, TIMOTHY WAYNE
Born: married: Janet _____
Died: obit:
1976 ordained deacon, recommended by Dallastown Bethlehem
1979 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-78 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1978-83 Berwick St. Pauls
1983-87 Avis
1987-89 East Prospect
1989-91 on leave
1991-96 Littlestown
1996-00 Mechanicsburg Grace
2000-02 Riverside St. Peters
2002-08 Huntingdon First
2008-12 New Kingstown Trinity
2012 retired
WELSCH, JEFFERY K.
Born: married: Jan _____
Died: obit:
1981 ordained deacon, recommended by Hollidaysburg First
1985 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1981-83 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1983-85 associate, Chambersburg First
1985-91 Balls Mills
1991-94 Mechanicsburg Aldersgate (ending
3/1/1994)
1994-96 Wormleysburg St. Pauls (beginning
3/1/1994)
1996-01 Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street
2001-18 Bedford
2018-23 York Zion
2024 withdrawn
(3/18/2024)
WENRICH, JAMES THOMAS
Born: married: Bette _____
Died: obit:
1968 license, recommended by West Street EUB
1971 ordained deacon
1975 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1967-69 student, Lebanon C\Valley College in Annville PA
1967-69 assistant, Lebanon Salem
1969-70 Upper Dauphin circuit
1970-72 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1971-71 assistant, Kettering OH Southern Hills
1972-74 associate, Chambersburg St. Paul (ending 10/31/1974)
1974-84 Mt. Rock Good Shepherd Community (beginning 11/1/1974)
1984-88 Williamsport Calvary
1988-93 Coudersport Larger Parish
1993-02 Genesee Ulysses (ending 11/1/2002)
2002-12 incapacity leave (beginning
11/1/2002)
2012 retired
WERTZ, H. ADEN III
Born: married: Joan _____
Died: obit:
1984 license, recommended by Indiana PA Grace
1986 ordained deacon, Western Pennsylvania Conference
1990 ordained elder, Western Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1992 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1992-99 Newport parish
1999-06 Allport Gethsemane
2006-11 Williamsport Pine Street
2011-16 Tyrone Good Shepherd Warriors Mark
2016 retired
WERTZ, JENNETT
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Pine Glen of the Snow Shoe charge
2008 provisional elder
2010 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2000-08 Clintondale Lamar
2008-11 Altoona Garden Heights Lakemont
2011-14 associate, Chambersburg First
2014-18 Williamsport St. Pal-Calvary
2018-23 Lewisberry
WESTBROOK. DEBORAH K.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Mt. Victory
Interment:
Obit:
2006-13
Oakville (ending 4/1/2013)
2013-19 medical leave (beginning 4/1/2013)
2019 retired
2019-23 Cumberland
charge
WESTBROOK, WILLIAM L. SR.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2010 license, recommended by Union Corners
Interment:
Obit:
2010-23 Camptown
WHEELER, ERIN F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2018 license, recommended by Dallastown Bethlehem
Interment:
Obit:
2018-19 Allenport
2019-22 New Oxford Emory
2022-23 Middleburg Trinity
WHISEL, RYAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2019 license, recommended by Greencastle First
Interment:
Obit:
2019-21 Greencastle First (beginning
5/1/2019)
2021-23 Paddletown St. Pauls
WHITEHEAD, ELIZABETH McNEAL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1987 ordained deacon, recommended by Williamstown
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1984-88 Manada Hill St. Pauls
1988-95 Wiconisco Wesley
1991-95 Muir
Grace
1995-05 Willaimstown
2005-07 on leave
2007 retired
WHITEHEAD, JOHN
Born: married: Teri
Died: obit:
2021 license, recommended by Lehman-Idetown
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Nicholson
WHITFIELD, GRACE P. HOUSEWORTH.
Born: 8-1-1931 PA married: Thomas Allen Whitfield
Died: 11-17-2012 Altoona PA obit:
Interment: Bedford County Memorial Park, Bedford PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 274
2003-2012 Bedford Valley
Note: Grace P. Whitfield (nee Drenning) served as a lay minister. Prior to that she retired as a mapper for the Bedford County Tax Assessors Office.
WHITLOCK, MICHELLE GUY
Born: married: Gary Whitlock
Died: obit:
2007 provisional deacon, recommended by Shrewsburg Grace
2008 license
2010 provisional elder
2012 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2007-10 Shrewsburg Grace
2010-14 New Freedom
2014 appoint to attend school
2014-19 Waverly (beginning 9/1/2014)
2019-23 Hawley
WHORL, SUANNE
Born: married: Richard Whorl
Died: obit:
1988 ordained deacon, recommended by York Bethlehem
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-89 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1989-02 Middletown Ebenezer
2002-08 York Bethany
2008-12 Charlton
2012 retired
2014-15 Middletown
Ebenezer (ending 2/15/2015)
Note:
Suanne Whorl is the mother of Jennifer Williams.
WILCOX, CATHY A.
Born: married: Brian Wilcox
Died: obit:
2021 license
Interment:
Obit:
2021-23 Lemon East Lemon
WILCOX, KRIS-ANN
Born: married: Daniel Wilcox
Died: obit:
1996 recommended by Oakdale PA Crossroads, Western Pennsylvania Conference
2000 license
2001 provisional elder
2004 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2000-07 associate, York Aldersgate (ending
1/1/2007)
2007-10 family leave (1/1/2007 11/30/2010)
2010-12 Unalaska, Alaska Missionary
Conference (12/1/2010 1/1/2012)
2012-25 family leave (beginning 1/1/2012)
WILCOX, LYNN M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2016 license, recommended by Martinsville Salem
Interment:
Obit:
2016-17 Picture Rocks Tivoli
2017-20 Hop Bottom
2020-22 Greater Buffalo Run Valley (ending
10/1/2022)
2022-25 medical leave (beginning 10/1/2022)
WILLARD, DAVID TILGHMAN
Born: married: Sherry _____
Died: obit:
1966 license, recommended by New Kingstown
1970 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1965-67 student, Messiah College
1965-67 assistant, New Bloomfield charge
1967-70 student, United Theological Seminary
1967-70 Lytle OH
1970-76 associate, Lemoyne Grace (ending 9/15/1976)
1976-81 Summerdale (9/15/1976 8/16/1981)
1981-83 on leave (beginning 8/16/1981)
1983-92 Steelton First
1992-02 Duncannon Asbury
2002 retired
WILLARD, THOMAS A.
Born: married: Mary Alice
Died: obit:
1977 ordained deacon, recommended by Liverpool
1979 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1977-78 student, Asbury Theological Seminary
in Wilmore KY
1978-85 West Fairview
1985-98 Waggoners
1998-03 Shepherdstown
2003-09 superintendent, Wellsboro District
2009-18 Camp Hill
2018 retired
2021-22 Mechanicsburg
Aldersgate
WILLIAMS, JENNIFER HALE
Born: married:
Warren Bevacqua
Died:
obit:
1999 provisional elder, recommended by Middletown
Ebenezer
2002 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1999-01 Harrisburg Grace
2001-07 Rutherford Christ
2007-18 Harrisburg CrossPoint
2018-22 Fishburn
2022-23 Mechanicsburg Aldersgate
Note:
Jennifer Williams is the daughter of Suanne Williams Whorl and the wife of
Warren Bevacqua.
WILLIAMS, RICHARD H.
Born: married: Pamela _____
Died: obit:
1982 ordained deacon, recommended by Chambersburg Park Avenue
1990 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-76 Amberson
1976-79 Mainesburg
1979-82 York Haven
1982-85 Port Ann Wesleyan Church (Snyder
County)
1985-90 Morgan Run
1990-96 Duboistown
1996-00 Tyrone Good Shepherd
2000-02 associate, Mechanicsburg First
2002-09 Everett
2009-13 Chambersburg First
2013-18 Trucksville
2018-21 Lewistown Grace
2021 retired
2022-23 Breezewood
Wesley Chapel (ending 4/2/2023)
2023-24 Mercersburg
First (beginning 4/2/2023)
2024 withdrew
11/11/2024
WILLIS, JOLEEN A.
Born: married: Randy M. Willis
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Huntingdon 12th Street
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2001-08 Manor Hill
2008-20 Clearfield West Side
2020-23 superintendent, Altoona District
Note:
Joleen A. Willis is married to Randy M. Willis.
WILLIS, RANDY M.
Born: married: Joleen A. _____
Died: obit:
2001 license, recommended by Huntingdon 12th Street
2009 provisional elder
2011 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2001-02 Mines Royer
2002-06 Petersburg charge
2006-08 Huntingdon 12th Street Alexandria Hope
2008-20 Clearfield Centre Grove
2020-23 Altoona Wehnwood
Note:
Randy M. Willis is married to Joleen A. Willis.
WILLIS, REDA ELAINE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1998 commissioned
2001 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1974-94 clinical nurse specialist, York Hospital
1994-17 York Zion (ending 2/1/2017)
2017 on leave (2/1/2017 6/30/2017))
2017 retired
WILLIS THOMAS L.
Born: married: Carolyn _____
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Chambersburg St. Paul
Interment:
Obit:
2006-10 Fayetteville Otterbein
2010 retired
WILSON, MICHAEL H.
Born: married: Mary _____
Died: obit:
2007 license, recommended by Blossburg First
Interment:
Obit:
2007-12 Reedsville Church Hill (ending
6/18/2012)
2012 discontinued
2014 reinstated and unappointed
(4/30/2014 6/30/2014)
2014-18 Laurelton
2018 unappointed (7/1/2018
7/31/2018)
2018 retired (8/1/2018)
WILT, DANIEL L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2014 license, recommended by Altoona Second Avenue
2019 provisional elder
2021 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2014-17 Chambersburg St. Johns (beginning 8/18/2014)
2017-23 Lewisburg St. Pauls
WISE, PATRICIA A.
Born: married: Jay Wise
Died: obit:
2004 license, recommended by Coalmont
Interment:
Obit:
2004-12 Six Mile Run (beginning 1/1/2004)
2004-05 Dudley
(1/1/2004 8/24/2005)
2012-16 Greater Broad Top charge
2016 retired
WITT, KEVIN T.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? ordained, Oregon-Idaho Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2018-22 conference staff, Susquehanna
Conference
2022 transfer to Susquehanna
Conference
2022-23 director, Camping Program Spiritual
Development
WODRIG, BARBARA L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1988 ordained deacon
1991 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-89 Steelton Grace
1989-92 Wallaceton
1992-96 Harveyville
1996-01 Town Hill
2001-04 Altoona Garden Heights Lakemont
2004 retired
WOLF, JENNIFER J.
Born: married: Lester Wolf
Died: obit:
2007 license (1/1/2007), recommended by Millerton
Interment:
Obit:
2007-14 Millerton Daggett (beginning
1/1/2007)
2014-17 unappointed
2017-23 Open Doors Parish [Columbia
Crossroads Faith Community (Big Pond-Wetona)]
WOLF, WILMERT HARRY JR
Born: 7-8-1934 Winona MN married: Marianne Hunt
Died: 10-21-2019 obit:
1960 ordained elder, Illinois Conference EUB
Interment:
Obit: New York Conference 2020, ?
New York Conference
1995-01 superintendent, Long Island East District
2001 retired
Middletown NY St. Pauls
Hankins NY
Scranton Elm Park, Susquehanna Conference
Note: Wilmert Bill Wolf is the son of Rev. Wilmert Wolf Sr. (1905-1993) of the Northern Illinois Conference. He served Scranton Elm Park as a ministerial assistant while a retired member of the New York Conference living in Pittston.
WOLFE, THOMAS CYRUS
Born: 1-5-1952 Mechanicsburg PA married: [single]
Died: 7-23-2002 Pennsdale PA obit:
1975 ordained deacon, recommended by Mechanicsburg Hope
1979 ordained elder
Interment: Rolling Green Cemetery, Camp Hill PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 392
1975-78 Catawissa circuit
1978-79 Breezewood
1979-85 Bigler
1985-91 Hegins-Muir
1991-94 Williamsport Wesley
1994-00 Penbrook Trinity
2000-02 Altoona First
2002 Pennsdale (ending 7/23/2002)
Born: married: Richard Wong
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by Camp Hill
2015 provisional elder
2017 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2015-18 Chambersburg Park Avenue
2018-23 Middlesex
WOOD, BETHANY PATTON
Born: married: James Wood
Died: obit:
1982 ordained, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Interment:
Obit:
1986-87 Claysburg, Central Pennsylvania Conference UMC
1987 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1987-89 Claysburg
1989-90 associate, York Zion
1990-94 Jersey Shore First
1994-99 Mill Hall
1999-09 Hughesville Bethany
2009-19 Town Hill
2019 retired, page 181
2020-23 assisting
elder, Lewisburg District
WOOD, DONALD RAY
Born: 7-1-1947 Philipsburg PA married: Dorothy _____
Died: 12-31-2025 Macon GA obit:
1967 license, recommended by Oak Grove
1973 ordained deacon
1976 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1966 Three Springs (June Sept)
1967-72 student, Clarion PA
1969 Axmann-Weaver (June Aug)
1969-72 Oak Ridge, Western Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 9/1969)
1972-74 student, Candler School of Theology
1972-76 Port Royal (ending 12/31/1976)
1977-12 executive director, Good News Television Network in Macon GA (beginning 1/1/1977)
transfer to South Georgia Conference
2012 retired
WOODRUFF, HOWARD T.
Born: married: Dawn _____
Died: obit:
1991 license, recommended by Faxon-Kenmar
1999 provisional elder
2002 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1991-94 Waterville
1994-99 Tiadaghton #3 [Phelps Chapel Pine
Creek]
1999-06 Roseville Mainesburg
2006-12 State College Mt. Nittany
2012-16 Scranton Elm Park
2016-18 Marysville Wesley (ending 11/11/2018)
2018-22 Missional University (11/12/2018
1/30/2022)
2022 retired (2/1/2022)
withdrew (8/22/2022)
WOODS, ZACHARY D.
Born: married: Kayla _____
Died: obit:
2017 license, recommended by Williamsport First
Interment:
Obit:
2017-20 Muncy Valley
2020-23 New Berlin Winfield
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Zachary D. Woods served as a local pastor.
WOOLEVER, PATRICIA
Born: married: R. Bruce Woolever
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 348
1980 license, recommended by Huntingdon Valley
1981 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference
1985 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1989-91 Mont Alto Otterbein Quincy, Central
Pennsylvania Conference
1991 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1991-96 Mont Alto Otterbein Quincy
1996-00 New Bloomfield
2000-05 superintendent, State College
District
2005-12 Millerstown
2012-13 assisting elder, Harrisburg District
2013 retired
WOOSTER, JAMES B. JR.
Born: married: Michelle _____
Died: obit:
2002 license, recommended by Pleasant Valley
2007 provisional elder
2010 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2005-08 Renovo Area
2008-09 New Hope [formerly Axeman-Weaver]
2009-14 Mifflintown Aldersgate
2014-18 Wrightsville Hope
2018-19 Mansfield (ending 1/31/2019)
2019-23 Williamsport Pine Street (beginning
2/1/2019)
WURST, HEATHER A.
Born: married: Paul Wurst
Died: obit:
2006 license, recommended by Williamsport First
2008 provisional elder
2012 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
2006-12 Rouzerville
2012-20 Williamsburg
2020-23 Chambers Hill
WYNN, BERNARD IVAN
Born: married: Beverly _____
Died: obit:
1964 license, recommended by Mt. Pleasant on the Sugar Valley charge
1970 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1964-67 student, Lock Haven State College
& Messiah College
1967-70 student, Evangelical Theological
Seminary in Evanston IL
1968-70 Brushwood
IN Kniman
1970-71 associate, Shippensburg Messiah
1971-74 Altoona Wehnwood
1974-77 Six Mile Run
1977-80 Witmers Faith
1980-84 Glen Rock
1984-89 Clearfield Parish
1989-92 West Fairview
1992-95 Shade Valley
1995-99 Winfield
1999-02 Mountain View Ministry Link 2
[Coolidge Hollow Whitneyville]
2022 retired
2002-05 Holy
Cross [Bucks Hill New Buffalo]
YACKLEY, THOMAS R. SR.
Born: married: Patricia _____
Died: obit:
1973 license
1975 ordained deacon, Nebraska Conference
1980 ordained elder, Nebraska Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1985 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1985-87 Julian Martha
1987-89 associate, Mechanicsburg First
1989-93 Huntingdon 12th Street
1993-95 Lewistown Lake Park Granville
1995-98 Mifflinburg Wesley
1998-03 on leave
2003 retired
YETTER, ARTHUR R.
Born: married: Keely _____
Died: obit:
2007 license
Interment:
Obit:
2007-17 Cortez
2017 retired
2017-23 Cortez
YODER, JAMES ALDEN
Born: 1-20-1933 Pine Glen PA married: Harriet E. McCall (1967)
Died: 1-9-2024 obit:
1972 license, recommended by Lewistown Grove Memorial
1973 ordained deacon
1987 associate member
Interment: Juniata Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 351
1972-75 Church Hill and Havice Valley St. Marks
1975-86 Shrader
1986-95 Burnham Yoked Parish
1995 retired
1999-24 Siglerville Congregational Church
Note: James A. Yoder taught in the Mifflin County School
District 1954-1986. He reportedly also
served the Mount Union Bethel A.M.E. Church for one year.
YORKS, BARBARA CORDELIA
Born: married: Joseph Neale Yorks
Died: obit:
1981 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1981-84 Wallaceton
1984-88 Sandy Ridge
1984-85 associate, Phillipsburg Trinity
1988-89 Wallaceton
1989-91 on leave
1991-92 Druck Valley
1992-96 on leave
1996-98 associate, New Cumberland Baughman (ending 3/31/1998)
1998-00 Windsor Grace (beginning 4/1/1998 and ending 12/28/1999)
2000-02 Harrisburg Paxton (beginning 1/1/2000)
2002-04 on leave
2004-08 New Cumberland Baughman
2008-09 at school
2009-13 New Hope [Loyalton Emmanuel Wiconisco Wesley] (ending 3/31/2013)
2013-18 Locust Run Thompsontown (beginning 4/1/2013 and ending 6/1/2018)
2018-19 interim, Lewisburg First Presbyterian (beginning 6/1/2018)
2019 retired
2019-20 Selinsgrove Wesley (beginning11/1/2019)
2020-21 Milton St. Andrews
Note: Barbara C. Yorks is married to Joseph N. Yorks.
YORKS, DONALD EARL
Born: married: Carol _____
Died: obit:
1971 license (12/27/1971), recommended by Belleville
1975 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1974-78 Mt. Hope
1978-84 Mt. Pleasant Mills
1984-90 Mifflinburg Wesley
1990-2008 Farragut Fairfield
2008-12 incapacity leave
2009-12 Mt. Airy Mt. Zion
2012 retired
2012-14 Mt.
Airy Mt. Zion (ending 12/31/2014)
2022-23 Mt.
Victory (beginning 10/1/2022)
YORKS, JOSEPH NEALE
Born: married: Barbara Cordelia _____
Died: obit:
1978 ordained deacon, recommended by Oriole
1981 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1978-80 student, Methesco
1980-89 Ramey
1989-00 Martinsville
2000-11 Elizabethville Trinity
2011-17 East Salem Otterbein
2017 retired
YORKS, JOSHUA A.
Born: married: Susan _____
Died: obit:
2011 license, recommended by Elizabethville Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
2011-14 Waymart Calvary
2014-15 associate, Bedford
2015-19 Mehoopany
2019-22 Troy Holy Trinity Windfall
2022-23 Hetlerville Mifflinville
YOUNG, KENNETH E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1971 ministerial student, page 35
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Kenneth E. Young is a brother to Ralph E Young of the
Methodist files. He graduated from North Carolina
Wesleyan with a degree in Religion and Philosophy. For 21 years he worked
as a Medical Assistant in the surgery unit of Mercy Medical Center in
Canton, Ohio. In 1999 he was licensed as a Professional Interstate Driver. He
has worked as a courier for the Akron Library System from which he retired in
2015.
Born: married: Connie _____
Died: obit:
1976 ordained deacon, recommended by Clearfield West Side
1979 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-75 Woodland Main Street
1975-78 student, Wesley Theological Seminary
in Washington DC
1975-78 Mt.
Pleasant, Baltimore Conference
1978-81 South Williamsport
1981-89 Newburg
1989-94 Lemont Mt. Nittany
1994-00 Red Lion Chapel
2000-08 Bloomsburg Wesley
2008-12 Huntingdon First
2012 retired
ZACK, JENNIFER C.
Born: married: Brian Zack
Died: obit:
2019 license
Interment:
Obit:
2019-20 Hanover Grace
2020-23 Jacobus
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Jennifer Zack served as a local pastor.
ZEIDERS, DONALD DARWIN
Born: 11-19-1923 Harrisburg PA married: Fay Eleanor Westenheffer (1044)
Died: 7-3-2013 Harrisburg PA obit: [1/24/1927 7/31/2004]
1947 license, recommended by Derry Street
1958 ordained, Baptist
Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 268
1947-49 Grantville Manada Hill, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1949-52 student
1952-59 Steelton Central Baptist
1959-67 assistant, Elizabethtown St. Pauls,
East Pennsylvania Conference
1967 transfer to East Pennsylvania
Conference
1967-69 assistant, Elizabethtown St. Pauls
1969-70 Charlton
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference by boundary change
1970-72 Charlton
1972-77 on leave
1977-83 Steelton First
1983-89 disability leave
1989 retired
ZEIDERS, GEORGE EDWIN
Born: married: Joan Marie Keefer
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 268
1967 license, recommended by Harrisburg Park Street
1971 ordained deacon
1974 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1967-70 student, Lebanon Valley College in
Annville PA
1967-70 North
Annville charge
1970-73 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1970-73 Brookville
OH Arlington
1973-78 Centre Grove
1978-87 Stewartstown
1987-95 superintendent, Wellsboro District
1995-99 director, Conference Council on
Ministries
1999-07 president, United Theological
Seminary (beginning 12/21/1999)
2007-14 State College St. Pauls
2014 retired
ZEILER, RANDALL H. JR.
Born: married: Beth _____
Died: obit:
2012 license, recommended by Walnut Bottom Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
2012-15 State Line
2015-19 St. Thomas
2019-23 York Messiah
ZIMMERMAN, CHARLES HARVEY
Born: 7-10-1931 Johnstown PA married: Nancy J. Gibbs
Died: 9-30-2018 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 352
1966 license, recommended by Johnstown Wesrmont
1972 ordained elder
Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 352
1966-70 Altoona Wehnwood
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by change of boundaries
1970-71 Altoona Wehnwood
1971-82 Craley New Bridgeville
1982-96 Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street
1996 retired
Note: Charles Zimmerman is the father of Jane Harrison.
ZIMMERMAN, JAY ELWOOD
Born: 6-8-1952 Philipsburg PA married: Linda P. Meals
Died: 1-13-2021 Gettysburg PA obit:
1975 license, recommended by Harrisburg Calvary
1975 ordained deacon
1979 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1975-77 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC
1977-80 Bald Eagle Parish
1980-96 Harrisburg Paxton
1996-04 Waynesboro Christ
2004-18 Gettysburg
2018 retired
Note: Jay E. Zimmerman is the son of Elwood C. Zimmer and the grandson of Ray A. Zimmerman, both of whom are listed in the Central Pennsylvania Methodist files.
ZORTMAN, MARK A.
Born: married: Rhonda _____
Died: obit:
2015 license, recommended by York Messiah
Interment:
Obit:
2015-23 Mount Wolf Otterbein
2015-18 with York Haven Pleasant Gove and named CrossWords
2023 disaffiliated
Note: Mark A. Zortman served as a local pastor.
ZROWKA, ANNETTE L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2020 license
Interment:
Obit:
2020-22 Old Forge
2022-23 Gibson
FORMAT
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: