Harder, Ernst (1922-1995)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1995 Nov 2 p. 15

Birth date: 1922

Text of obituary:

Retired Missionary, Pastor Dies at 73 in North Newton

By GCMC News Service

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Ernst Harder, 73, a retired General Conference Mennonite missionary and pastor, died Oct. 25 at his home.

He and his wife, Ruth, served with the Commission on Overseas Mission from 1956 to 1976. During this time he was a teacher and president of the Mennonite Biblical Seminary at Montevideo, Uruguay. The Harders also lived in Germany and Paraguay.

Harder also was a pastor. He was the first secretary of Hispanic ministries for the Commission on Home Ministries, a position he held for three and a half years beginning in 1979.

Harder was born in the Ukraine. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Bethel College, North Newton, and a master of divinity degree from Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Chicago. He was a member of Bethel College Mennonite Church.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth; two daughters, Rudy Lakin and Margie Wiens, both of Hesston; two sons, Richard of Wichita and Robert of Plano, Texas; a sister, Eva Rempel of British Columbia; a brother, Peter of Aregua, Paraguay; and eight grandchildren. Two sons and a brother preceded him in death.

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