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Rahn, Benjamin P. (1913-2004)
Newton Kansan obituary: 2004 Jan 9 p. 2
Birth date: 1913 Mar 20
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Jan 19 p. 7
text of obituary:
INMAN, Kan. — Benjamin P. Rahn, a pastor for more than 40 years in General Conference Mennonite Church congregations, died Jan. 7 at Pleasant View Home. He was 90.
Rahn was ordained as a minister at Bethel Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, Minn., in 1944. He served pastorates at Grace Mennonite Church, Enid, Okla., 1944-47; First Mennonite Church of Paso Robles, Calif., 1947-50; Inman Mennonite Church, 1950-62; First Mennonite Church of Pretty Prairie, 1962-70; Salem Mennonite Church, Kidron, Ohio, 1970-77; First Mennonite Church of Aberdeen, Idaho, 1977-83; and interim pastorates at Atwater (Calif.) Mennonite Church, 1983-85; and First Mennonite Church of Reedley, Calif., 1985-87.
Her was born March 20, 1913, at Mountain Lake, the son of Peter G. and Gertrude Pankratz Rahn. He attended Bethel College in North Newton from 1942 to 1944 and Mennonite Biblical seminary in 1958. He was a member of First Mennonite Church in Newton.
On Aug. 26, 1937, he married Tena Wieler at Mountain Lake. She survives. Other survivors include two sons, Ivan of Booneville, Ind., and Eugene of Ponca City, Okla.; a daughter, Frances Nunemacher of Lake Havasu City, Ariz.; a brother, Peter of Mountain Lake; a sister, Lorena Gruhlke of Visalia, Calif.; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Jan 19 p. 8
text of obituary:
BENJAMIN P. RAHN
Benjamin P. Rahn, 90, of Inman, Kan., died Jan. 7, 2004, at Pleasant View Home. He was born March 20, 1913, to Peter G. and Gertrude Pankratz Rahn in Mountain Lake, Minn.
He married Tena Wieler on Aug. 26, 1937, in Mountain Lake.
He went to college at Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 1938-42, then attended Bethel College, North Newton, 1942-44. He was ordained as a minister at Bethel Mennonite Church of Mountain Lake on June 25, 1944. He attended Mennonite Biblical Seminary in 1958.
He served as a pastor in Kingman, Colby, Inman and Pretty Prairie in Kansas; in Aberdeen, Idaho; in Paso Robles, Atwater and Reedley, Calif.; and in Enid, Okla., and Kidron, Ohio. He retired in 1983.
He was on the Home Mission Board and was a jail minister in Newton. He was a member of First Mennonite Church of Newton.
Survivors include his wife, Tena; two sons, Ivan of Booneville, Ind., and Eugene of Ponca City, Okla.; a daughter, Frances Nunemacher of Lake Havasu City, Ariz.; a brother, Peter of Mountain Lake; a sister, Lorena Gruhlke of Visalia, Calif.; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Henry (in infancy) and Willard; and two sisters, Olga (in infancy) and Marie Rupp.
Funeral services were held at Inman (Kan.) Mennonite Church. Burial was in North Inman Cemetery.