Long-time seminary development officer dies
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ELKHART, Ind.—Joseph S. Hertzler, 75, retired director of development for Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) in Elkhart, died April 15 after an extended illness.
Hertzler was appointed director of seminary relations in 1971, moving to Elkhart from Iowa City, Iowa, where he had been pastor of First Mennonite Church of Iowa City 1967-1971.
He also had served as pastor of First Mennonite Church of Richmond, Va. He graduated from Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, Va., in 1962; attended Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va.; and received a B.D. degree from Goshen Biblical Seminary in 1967. During his tenure at AMBS, he served as acting president of Goshen Biblical Seminary 1973-1974. He retired from AMBS in 1997.
In addition to his pastoral and seminary roles, Hertzler was Iowa-Nebraska Conference representative on the Mennonite Board of Education, board member for the Oaknoll Retirement Home in Iowa City, on the executive committee of the American Friends Service Committee of Southeast Iowa, and a member of the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Iowa-Nebraska Conference.
Survivors include daughter Julia Hertzler and her husband, Sanford Angelos; daughter Teresa Jantz and her husband, Jeffrey; four grandchildren; one sister, Alice Yoder, of Oregon; and three brothers, Alvin, John Asa and David, all of Virginia. He was preceded in death by one sister, Amy Troyer. Hertzler’s wife, Mary, died in December 2007.—AMBS
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