Stahl, Omar B. (1927-2002)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Aug 26 p. 11

Birth date: 1927

text of obituary:

OMAR B. STAHL

Omar B. Stahl, 75, of Landis Homes, Lancaster, Pa., and formerly of Pleasure Road, died June 23, 2002, at Lancaster General Hospital after a brief illness. He was born in Cocalamus to Dewey and Mary Brubaker Stahl.

His first wife, Lois Kraybill Stahl, died in 1977. He married A. Martha Denlinger in 1979.

He served with Eastern Mennonite Missions in Luxembourg and Germany for 25 years. He was then the director at Lancaster Mennonite Information Center from 1979 to 1987. He was also pastor of Lyndon Mennonite Church for 12 years and Strickler's Mennonite Church in Middletown for three years. He served as a guide for German-speaking visitors to Lancaster for many years.

He was ordained in 1955 at Bossler's Mennonite Church in Elizabethtown. He was a graduate of Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.

An avid collector of objects of natural beauty, he also enjoyed flower-arranging, bird-watching, reading and creating sculptures from driftwood.

Survivors include his wife, A. Martha; a son, John Daniel and his wife, Sarah Windes, of Blacksburg, Va.; a daughter, Rachel Kraybill Stahl of Lancaster; three brothers, Milo and John, both of Harrisonburg, and Jacob of Lititz; two sisters, Anna Leakey and Sara Kreider, both of Harrisonburg; and two grandsons.