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Hartzler, Robert W. (1919-1994)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1994 Apr 14 p. 8
Birth date: 1919 Aug 4
GOSHEN, Ind. - Robert W. Hartzler, an ordained General Conference Mennonite Church minister who was active in the development of several area church projects, died of cancer April 2 at the age of 74.
He was the first administrator for both Greencroft retirement community and Oaklawn Psychiatric Center. He served at Greencroft from the time it opened in 1965 until 1982. He was at Oaklawn from 1962 to 1978.
“He was an inspirational person,” said Harold Loewen, Oaklawn president and Hartzler’s successor. "He had a high level of motivation . . . and he had a sense of mission and purpose that was contagious.”
Hartzler, as chairman of the Central District Conference (GC) camping committee, was instrumental in the creation of Camp Friedenswald near Cassopolis, Mich., in the late 1940s and early 50's.
He also pastored Silver Street (now Silverwood) Mennonite Church in Goshen from 1942 to 1945, and Eighth Street Mennonite Church in Goshen from 1945 to 1962. He was a member of Eighth Street.
Hartzler was born Aug. 4, 1919, near Middlebury. He graduated from Goshen College in 1941 and Bethany Biblical Seminary in Chicago in 1949. He married Edna Blosser Oct 17, 1942. She died in 1991. He married Josephine Huser Troyer June 14, 1992. She survives.
Other survivors include sons Gregory of Goshen and Geoffrey of Kansas City, Kan.; stepchildren Rebecca Christophel of Harrisonburg, Va.; Kay Schrock, Mary Hoefer and Mark Troyer, all of Goshen; a sister, Esther Oyer of Scottsdale, Ariz.; six granddaughters; and 11 step-grandchildren. A son, Kim, died in 1969.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1994 May 5 p. 11
Birth date: 1919
The Mennonite obituary: 1994 May 10 p. 19
Robert W. Hartzler, Eighth Street Church, Goshen, Ind., died of cancer April 2. He was 74. Hartzler served pastorates at Silver Street (now Silverwood) Church in Goshen and Eighth Street Church. He was the first administrator for both Greencroft retirement community and Oaklawn Psychiatric Center in Goshen and was instrumental in the creation of Camp Friedenswald, Cassopolis, Mich.