Landes, Carl John (1904-1972)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1972 Jun 8 p. 7

Birth date: 1904

text of obituary:

Death Claims Retired Pastor, Peace Worker

Word has been received here of the death of Rev. Carl J. Landes, 68, retired pastor and long-time worker in the fields of peace and rural life with the American Friends Service Committee, which occurred May 29 at the Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis. He resided at Straughn, Ind.

A memorial service was held Sunday afternoon, June 4, at the Hopewell Friends Meeting House.

Rev. Landes had served the Zion Mennonite Church at Donnellson, Iowa (supply pastor for one summer), the First Mennonite Church of Philadelphia, the 26th Street Mission in Chicago, the Deer Creek, Okla. Mennonite Church in his home community, and a Congregational church at Franklin, Ohio.

At the time of his death he was employed as an Associate in Peace Education with the American Friends Service Committee. Other positions which he held were: Protestant chaplain at the Colorado State Reformatory; Chaplain and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Southern Union College in Alabama; community consultant in cultural and racial relations in Virginia and North Carolina; and National Secretary for the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

A native of Lucien, Okla., Rev. Landes attended Witmarsum Seminary and Bluffton College (Ohio), receiving his A.B. degree from Bluffton. He earned the Master's degree in education at Temple University, Philadelphia, and the B.D. degree from Chicago Divinity School.

Surviving in the immediate family are his widow, Martha Graber Landes; two sons, James of Greenfield, Ind. and Robert of Wilmington, Del.; and a daughter, Mrs. Richard Ramseyer of Bluffton.

The Mennonite obituary: 1972 Jul 25 p. 464