Plank, Dwight Samuel (1930-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Dec 10 p. 13

Birth date: 1930 Jun 5

text of obituary:

DWIGHT PLANK

Dwight Samuel Plank, 77, of Bremen, Ohio, died recently when a bull fatally injured him. He was born June 5, 1930, to Ira David Plank and Laura Malinda (Kanagy) Plank in Logan County.

On Feb. 14, 1939, they moved to Bremen in Fairfield County. Before he attended high school they moved to near Rushville. He graduated from Rushville Union High School in 1948.

He was a member of Turkey Run Mennonite Church all his life from his early teens. In 1951 he went on a cattle ship sponsored by Mennonite Central Committee to take cattle to needy families in Jordan. In 1953-55, he served as a conscientious objector to the military at Marymount Hospital in Cleveland. He spent a number of years working in construction.

He married Caroline Kurtz on June 26, 1965.

After their marriage, he enjoyed farming along with being employed as a custodian for Cyril-Scott Printing Co. He enjoyed caring for Belgian horses, hunting and working with older tractors.

On June 11, 2007, he had open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve and one bypass. After a slow but sure recovery, he was able to drive tractor and help on the farm.

Survivors include his wife, Caroline; four children, Frieda Joy Thiessen and her husband, Brian, of Maryfield, Sask., Marvin Lee Plank and his wife, Becky, of Bremen, Thomas Alvin Plank and his wife, Dianna, of Mount Perry, and Catherine Salome Chevalier and her husband, Ron, of Logan; two brothers, Roy and Donald Plank; and seven grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by brothers Robert Carl, Floyd and Oren Plank.