Kreider, Amos E. (1889-1976)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1976 Feb 12 p. 3

Birth date: 1889

text of obituary:

Amos E. Kreider of Goshen, Ind., well-known retired pastor, college and seminary Bible teacher and churchman, died Wednesday morning it was learned here by a son, Robert S. Kreider. he was 86.

Rev. Kreider had been in failing health for some time but had resided in his apartment at Greencroft Center until two weeks ago when he was taken to the Greencroft Nursing Center.

Funeral services are to be held Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Eighth Street Mennonite church in Goshen.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1976 Feb 26 p. 11

text of obituary:

Amos E. Kreider, 86, pastor, Bible teacher, and conference leader, died at Greencroft Nursing Center, Goshen, Ind., on Feb. 11, 1976. He had been a patient of the nursing center for two weeks and had been in failing health for two years.

A native of Sterling, Ill. where he was born on Oct. 19, 1889, he attended Goshen Academy and College, graduating in 1915. He graduated from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1917. He was married on Sept. 5, 1917 to Stella Shoemaker of Freeport, Ill., who survives him.

Rev. Kreider was associated with five Mennonite educational institutions. He taught Bible for a year, 1917-1918, at Goshen College, returning in 1921 after three years of farming at Sterling, Ill. to two additional years on the Goshen Bible faculty. With the closing of Goshen College in