Seitz, Kenneth Leroy (1916-2008)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2008 Jul 7 p. 9

Birth date: 1916 Dec 1

text of obituary:

KENNETH LEROY SEITZ

Kenneth Leroy Seitz, 91, a resident of Park Place at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community in Harrisonburg, died June 6, 2008, at Oak Lea Nursing Home. He was born Dec. 1, 1916, to John Bear and Elizabeth Judith Hess Seitz in Camp Hill, Pa.

On March 28, 1937, he married Grace Heebner.

He graduated from Eastern Mennonite College in 1954 and attended Eastern Mennonite Seminary. He pastored in West Virginia and Virginia from 1954 to 1958. He and his wife then served as missionaries in Mexico City from 1958 to 1978. He served as a chaplain and pastor from 1979 to 1999 in Pennsylvania and Virginia. His chaplaincy work was at Rockingham Memorial Hospital.

He was an active member of Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community and was widely known as a Bible teacher. He and his wife, Grace, worked as volunteers at Gift and Thrift in Harrisonburg for Mennonite Central Committee and were members of Mount Clinton Mennonite Church.

Survivors include three sons, Kenneth Lee Seitz and his wife, Kathryn, of Beirut, Lebanon, Delbert Leon Seitz and his wife, Mary Friesen, of Lancaster, Pa., and David Allen Seitz and his wife, Christine, of Mishawaka, Ind.; three daughters, Lois Arlene Kreider and her husband, Philip, of Harrisonburg, Eunice Mae Wenger and her husband, Wade, of Granger, Ind., and Frances Carol Justice and her husband, Larry, of Dayton; a brother, Marlin H. Seitz of Mechanicsburg, Pa.; nine grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Grace, on Dec. 20, 2007; and by a son, James Carl Seitz.

Funeral services were held at Mount Clinton Mennonite Church. Burial was in the church cemetery.