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Rahn, Benjamin P. (1913-2004)
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Revision as of 10:16, 21 December 2010
Newton Kansan obituary: 2004 Jan 9 p. 2
Birth date: 1913 Mar 20
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Jan 19 p. 7
text of obituary:
INMAN, Kan. — Benjamin P. Rahn, a pastor for more than 40 years in General Conference Mennonite Church congregations, died Jan. 7 at Pleasant View Home. He was 90.
Rahn was ordained as a minister at Bethel Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, Minn., in 1944. He served pastorates at Grace Mennonite Church, Enid, Okla., 1944-47; First Mennonite Church of Paso Robles, Calif., 1947-50; Inman Mennonite Church, 1950-62; First Mennonite Church of Pretty Prairie, 1962-70; Salem Mennonite Church, Kidron, Ohio, 1970-77; First Mennonite Church of Aberdeen, Idaho, 1977-83; and interim pastorates at Atwater (Calif.) Mennonite Church, 1983-85; and First Mennonite Church of Reedley, Calif., 1985-87.
Her was born March 20, 1913, at Mountain Lake, the son of Peter G. and Gertrude Pankratz Rahn. He attended Bethel College in North Newton from 1942 to 1944 and Mennonite Biblical seminary in 1958. He was a member of First Mennonite Church in Newton.
On Aug. 26, 1937, he married Tena Wieler at Mountain Lake. She survives. Other survivors include two sons, Ivan of Booneville, Ind., and Eugene of Ponca City, Okla.; a daughter, Frances Nunemacher of Lake Havasu City, Ariz.; a brother, Peter of Mountain Lake; a sister, Lorena Gruhlke of Visalia, Calif.; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Jan 19 p. 8
