Mast, Isaac Stoltzfus (1874-1955)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1955 Sep 1 p. 3

Birth date: 1874

text of obituary:

Well-Known Bishop Died in Pennsylvania

BISHOP I. S. MAST WAS PIONEER LEADER OF NORTH CENTRAL CONF.

Lancaster, Penn. — Funeral in services was [sic] held at the Maple Grove Mennonite church, Atglen, for Bishop Isaac Stoltzfus Mast, 81, pioneer home mission worker of the (Old) Mennonite church. Death came Aug 25 at his home near Embreeville, Chester county, after several years of ill health.

A native of Morgantown, Bro. Mast was ordained to the ministry in 1903 at Belleville, Penn. The same year he traveled to Minot, North Dakota, where he pioneered in the establishing of a Mennonite congregation. He was ordained bishop in the North Central Mennonite Conference in 1908 and continued that capacity until 1942.

Returning to Pennsylvania in 1942 he had charge of the Johnstown Mission and later served the Tressler church in Delaware. He also spent some time at the Altoona Mission, retiring in 1946.

Surviving are his wife, Fannie Yoder Mast; five children, 23 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and a half sister, Mrs. Charles Dice of Cochranville.