Lenker, Robert Kenneth

Posted By: Carol Eddleman
Date: 23 July 2004

Robert Kenneth Lenker was born in Darke County, Ohio, on October 24, 1929, the son of G. C. and Ruth DeWeese Lenker.

He graduated from the Jackson Township high school, spent a year in Bethany Biblical Seminary, and then entered Manchester College, purposing to complete his seminary work after graduation here.

On December 30, 1951, he was licensed to preach by the Pleasant valley church, this district. He does summer pastoral work during school vacations. He made a trip to Greece on a cattle boat when sixteen years old. Two older brothers were also on this boat.

He married Joan Louise Stickleman of Rossburg, Ohio, on January 7, 1950. They have two children, Mona Kay and Jonathan Dean.

(Source: Church of the Brethren in Southern Ohio, H. H. Helman, Editor, Brethren Publishing House, Elgin, Ill., 1955, p. 368.)

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