Wenger, Harry D. (1911-2002)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Dec 2 p. 12

Birth date: 1911 Jan 25

text of obituary:

CGCM evangelist and mission leader dies at 91

MOUNDRIDGE, Kan. — Harry D. Wenger, evangelist and mission leader in the Church of God in Christ Mennonite, died Nov. 29 at Moundridge Manor. He was 91.

Ordained in 1935 at the age of 24, Wenger traveled widely as an evangelist, leading revival meetings at many CGCM (Holdeman) congregations. He spent considerable time in the Kidron, Ohio, and Belleville, Pa., areas, where churches were being started. Many were converted through his gifts of preaching.

Wenger spent 18 years in the CGCM General Mission Board, much of that as chair. He was instrumental in starting CGCM missions in Nigeria and in India.

He served as a minister at the Meridian CGCM congregation at Hesston and also spent some time in the Abbotsford, B. C., congregation and then four years at both Hydro, Okla., and Versailles, Mo.

He was born Jan. 25, 1911, in Moundridge, to Frank H. and Anna (Dyck) Wenger. He married Gladys Koehn on Aug. 9, 1936. she survives.

Other survivors include four sons, Franklin and Carl, both of Moundridge, Weldon of Wichita and Lee of Sylvia; a daughter, Grace Wenger of Texhoma, Okla.; 17 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Galen; and two sisters.

The funeral services was held at the Meridian church. Burial was in the Meridian cemetery.

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