Detweiler, Mary Jane Rudy (1926-2005)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 Dec 19 p. 16

Birth date: 1926

text of obituary:

Wife of former EMU president dies at age 79

LANSDALE, Pa. — Mary Jane Detweiler, wife of the late Richard C. Detweiler, sixth president of Eastern Mennonite University, died Dec. 1 at Dock Terrace Nursing Home. She was 79.

Detweiler served with her husband when he was EMU president from 1980-87. He died in 1991 at age 66.

A native of York, the former Mary Jane Rudy earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education from Penn State University and was a teacher and principal in Maryland. After their marriage in 1953, the Detweilers served pastorates at Perkasie and Souderton Mennonite churches.

Detweiler is survived by a son and two daughters, three brothers, two sisters and seven grandchildren.

Services were held at Souderton Mennonite Church and dock Woods Community Chapel.