Buller, Harold W. (1922-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Jan 16 p. 7

Birth date: 1922 Dec 2

text of obituary:

Nebraska hospital chaplain dies

By Mennonite Weekly Review staff

BEATRICE, Neb. — Harold W. Buller, a longtime hospital chaplain, died Jan. 4 at age 83.

Buller was chaplain at Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center for 35 years, beginning in 1960. He also was a former pastor and Mennonite Central Committee worker.

A graduate of Bethel College in North Newton, Kan., the Biblical Seminary in New York and Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary, Buller married Anne Wiebe in 1947. They served with MCC doing postwar relief work in Europe for three years, starting in 1948. During this time, Buller was European area MCC director.

Returning to the United States, Buller served as pastor of Bethel College Mennonite Church in North Newton, Kan., and then of First Mennonite Church in Beatrice.

In addition to his pastoral work, Buller was an artist, writing in a variety of forms from poetry to meditations to drama and creating sculptures and woodwork pieces.

He served on the Commission on Education of the General conference Mennonite Church and on various Western District Conference committees.

Born Dec. 2, 1922, near Chinook, Mont., the son of Peter J. and Anna Wiens Buller, he was baptized in 1935 in the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church at Mountain Lake, Minn.

Buller is survived by his wife, Anne; two sons, Paul of Goshen, Ind., and Glenn of Bluffton, Ohio; a daughter, Mary Ann Triller of Waterloo, Ont.; three brothers, Peter of Goshen, Ind., Clarence of Colorado springs, Colo., and Henry of Augusta, Ga.; two sisters, Edna Gerber of Mountain Lake, Minn., and Shirley Newman of Carthage, Mo.; and four grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at First Mennonite Church. Burial was in the Mennonite cemetery.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Jan 23 p. 8