Shenk, Marie Hershey Leaman (1938-2010)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2010 Sep 20 p. 7

Birth date: 1938 May 25

text of obituary:

Mission worker, EMU staff member dies

By Mennonite Mission Network and Eastern Mennonite University

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Marie Hershey (Leaman) Shenk, who served seven years in missions in Israel and Palestine and 14 years as an administrative faculty member of Eastern Mennonite University, died Sept. 7. She was 72.

Shenk was administrative assistant to the academic dean at EMU from 1976 to 1990. She twice served as staff assistant for EMU-sponsored cross-cultural tours to the Middle East alongside her husband, Calvin, professor emeritus of religion.

In 1994 the Shenks began an assignment in Israel and Palestine under Mennonite Board of Missions, a precursor organization to Mennonite Mission Network, and Mennonite Central