Lehman, Leland C. (1920-2010)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2020 Mar 22 p. 9

Birth date: 1920 Feb 4

text of obituary:

LELAND C. LEHMAN

Leland C. Lehman, 90, of Bluffton, Ohio, died March 12, 2010, at Mennonite Memorial Home. He was born Feb. 4, 1920, to Leo E. and Alice Lehman in Berne, Ind.

He married Dorothy Jean Burner on June 24, 1945.

He was a professor of economics. He retired from Bluffton University and had also taught at Denison University, Granville, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., and after his retirement, one year at Bethel College, North Newton, Kan. Active in the Bluffton community, he served on the Bluffton Village Council for 12 years and the board of the Bluffton Housing Corp. He was a member of the Bluffton Lions Club and was named its Citizen of the Year in 1993. He was a member of First Mennonite Church, Bluffton, where he was a Sunday school teacher and sang in the choir. He also sang in the Swiss Male Chorus and the Bluffton Choral Society. He was a 1938 graduate of Berne (Ind.) High School, a 1942 graduate of Bluffton College and received his doctorate in economics from Ohio State University. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was stationed in Abadan, Iran.

Survivors include a son, Stephen Lehman of Philadelphia, Pa.; two daughters, Barbara Boldt and her husband, Edward, of Reedley, Calif., and Cynthia Linscheid and her husband, David, of North Newton, Kan.; a brother, Jackson Lehman of Fort Wayne, Ind.; a sister, Imogene Benroth of Bluffton; four grandsons and a great-grandson.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy, on April 8, 2005; a brother, Harold Lehman; and two sisters, Vivian Bishop and Margaret Joann Lehman.

Memorial services were held at First Mennonite Church, Bluffton. Burial of the cremated remains was in Maple Grove Cemetery, Bluffton.