Glick, Herman N. (1920-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Aug 21 p. 12

Birth date: 1920

text of obituary:

HERMAN N. GLICK

Herman N. Glick, 86, of Lititz, Pa., and formerly of Atglen, died July 15, 2006, at Landis Homes. He was born to Reuben and Mary Engel Glick in Atglen.

Soon after his birth his family moved to Newport News, Va., where they stayed until his mother died when he was 5. He then returned to Pennsylvania to live with his Uncle Sam and Aunt Lizzie Miller. He attended West Fallowfield High School and Lancaster Bible College and became active in the Mennonite church.

He married Mary Umble on Oct. 14, 1944.

Within the Mennonite church, he held the offices of pastor, overseer, conference moderator and chair of numerous commissions. He served as pastor at Wesley Chapel, Christiana Mennonite and Maple Grove Mennonite churches from 1955-85. In 1989, he became chaplain at Tel Hai Retirement Community, retiring in 2000. He was a founder of Tel Hai Camp of Honey Brook in 1956. He was active in revival meetings, Bible conference preaching and traveling to various churches serving as administrator.

He began his farming career in 1945 near Parkesburg, then moved to a farm near Atglen in 1953, retiring from farming in 1975. Then he and his wife, Mary, moved into Atglen, where they lived until April 2006.

Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Mary; four children, James Glick and his wife, Meimon Hsu, of Silver Spring, Md., Ann Derrick and her husband, Ted, of Manheim, J. Virginia Graybill and her husband, Frank, of Hershey, and Susan Ruth and her husband, Thomas, of Lancaster; nine grandchildren and a great-grandson.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Raymond, who died in infancy, and Mahlon Glick.