Conrad, Paul (1918-2008)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2008 Aug 11 p. 7

Birth date: 1918 Sep 23

text of obituary:

Missionary doctor gave a life of medical service

Conrad served in India, Etheopia

By Mennonite Mission Network staff

GOSHEN, Ind. — In India, Ethiopia and the United States, physician Paul Conrad served his patients with humility, caring and Christ's love.

Conrad, 89, died July 17 at his home in Goshen.

With his wife, Nancy, Conrad spent 15 years providing medical care and ministry in Dhamtari, India, primarily at Dhamtari Christian Hospital.

He served as medical superintendent through Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, a predecessor agency of Mennonite Mission Network. Conrad then headed Shantipur Leprosy hospital near Dhamtari for one year, where he introduced innovative techniques for preventing complications of leprosy.

In Ethiopia in the 1940s, he helped start a hospital on the site of an old cotton gin.

During his medical career in the United States and broad, he practiced medicine, trained physicians in general medicine and surgery, and was a clinical psychiatrist.

In a statement read at his memorial service, Conrad's children and grandchildren thanked their father and frandfather for his faith, courage and humiity, for living simply and for telling tehem that he was in India for his beliefs, "not necessarily to change the