Lenker, Charles Eugene

Posted By: Carol Eddleman
Date: 23 July 2004

Charles Eugene Lenker, son of G. C. and Ruth DeWeese Lenker, was born February 24, 1923, at Greenville, Ohio.

He graduated from the Jackson Township high school. He was in civilian public service during World War II. He and two brothers were on a cattle boat to Greece in 1946.

Entering Manchester College he graduated, A.B. degree, in 1949; then he enrolled in Bethany Biblical Seminary, graduating in 1952 with the B.D. degree. He held summer pastorates in Southern Virginia and in the fall after graduation returned to that district to become the full-time pastor of the Snow Creek congregation, where he now serves.

He married Hannah May Withers of Newberg, Oregon. They have three children.

Licensed by the Pleasant Valley church, Southern Ohio, he was later ordained to the full ministry by the same church.

(Source: Church of the Brethren in Southern Ohio, H. H. Helman, Editor, Brethren Publishing House, Elgin, Ill., 1955, pp. 367-8.)

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