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<center><font size="+2">'''Wife of former EMU president dies at age 79'''</font></center> | |||
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. | |||
[[Image:Detweiler_mary_jane_rudy_2005.jpg|200px|right]] 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. | |||
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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 Dec 19 p. 16
Birth date: 1926
text of obituary:
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.