Lahman, Harold Heatwole (1918-2004)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Sep 6 p. 8

Birth date: 1918 Jan 6

text of obituary:

HAROLD H. LAHMAN

Harold Heatwole Lahman, 86, of Elkton, Va., died July 18, 2004. He was born Jan. 6, 1918, to Byard Earl and Ethel Fannie Heatwole Lahman in the Dale Enterprise community of western Rockingham County.

On June 7, 1938, he married Evelyn May Miller.

He graduated from Eastern Mennonite High School in 1936 and was a dairy farmer and a Mennonite minister. On Jan. 26, 1947, he was ordained to the Christian ministry by the Middle District of Virginia Mennonite Conference. During the early part of his ministry he traveled, holding revival meetings in churches or visiting young men in 1-W service. He moved to the Elkton area in January 1949 and was pastor at Beldor, Elkton and Sandy Bottom churches.

He also served on the board of Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions, a number of years on the executive committee. One year he served as president of the board.

Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; three sons, Richard Allen of Elkton, Milford Gene of Lacombe, La., and Floyd Edwin of Harrisonburg; three sisters, Mildred L. Martin and Mabel Ethel Heatwole, both of Harrisonburg, and Doris L. Yoder of Shipshewana, Ind.; nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Services were held at Weavers Mennonite Church. Burial was in Weavers Mennonite Cemetery.