Croyle, Denton E. (1923-2009)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2009 Sep 14 p. 9

Birth date: 1923 Nov 8

text of obituary:

DENTON E. CROYLE

Denton E. Croyle, 85, of Wadsworth, Ohio, died June 20, 2009, after a brief illness. He was born Nov. 8, 1923, to Lloyd S. and Emma (Stahl) Croyle in the Johnstown, Pa., area.

He graduated from Goshen (Ind.) College in 1946, then did additional studies at Pitt-Johnstown campus. In 1950 he received his doctor of dental surgery degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dentistry. He began his practice in Johnstown, then did alternative service at Beatty Memorial Hospital in Westville, Ind., before locating to Wadsworth in 1955. He was chair of the Christ for Greater Johnstown committee and a member of Christian Businessmen’s Committee of Johnstown. He was program coordinator of the Gospel Fellowship broadcast in Johnstown.

He was a member of many quartets and choral groups, notably a 20-year member of the Akron Symphony Chorus and Chorale and occasions with the Blossom Festival and Cleveland Orchestra choruses, and a frequent soloist in area churches. He was a member of First Mennonite Church, Wadsworth.

He served for many years on the Ohio relief sale and beef canning projects for Mennonite Central Committee. He was a member of Mennonite Economic Development Associates and chair of the Wadsworth Area Peace Fellowship. He was a Rotary Club Paul Harris Fellow and a member of the Akron and American Dental associations. Since retirement from his profession in 1988, he was employed by Serpentini Chevrolet for 16 years.

Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Mary; three sons, Philip J. Croyle and his wife, Sherri, of Boca Raton, Fla., John Marshall Croyle and his wife, Caroline, of Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, England, and Warren L. Croyle and his wife, Janette, of Wadsworth; a daughter, Ann Louise Weldy and her husband, David, of Toledo; a sister, E. Louise Wigle of Austin, Texas; nine grandchildren; two step-grandsons and a great-grandaughter [sic].

Memorial services were held at First Mennonite Church, Wadsworth.