Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Bomberger, Rev. Dr. Harold Z. March 17, 2008
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 3/19/2008
  Bomberger, Dr. Rev. Harold Z.    
   
   
  Rev. Dr. Harold Z. Bomberger PALMYRA The Rev. Dr. Harold Z. Bomberger, 89, of 
  Palmyra, Pa., died peacefully on March 17, 2008, at Lebanon Valley Brethren 
  Home, surrounded by his loving family. He was a retired Church of the Brethren 
  pastor and denominational executive. Born in Lebanon County near Rocherty, he 
  was the son of the late Howard B. and Venona Zug Bomberger. He was a graduate 
  of Lebanon High School, Pa., Elizabethtown College, Pa., Bethany Theological 
  Seminary, Chicago, Ill., and the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. 
  Bethany Seminary awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1965. He 
  began his ministry in 1939 in the Annville Church of the Brethren, and in May 
  of 1999, was honored for 60 years of service in the ministry. Prior to his 
  ministerial career, he was involved in farming and in radio and television 
  engineering in Kansas City, Mo., and Chicago, Ill. Harold also served 
  pastorates in Allentown, Pa., Westminster, Md., and McPherson, Kan. During the 
  1950s, he was the executive for the Eastern Region of the Church of the 
  Brethren. Following the McPherson, Kan., pastorate during the 1960s, he 
  returned to his native area in 1971 to be the executive of the Atlantic 
  Northeast District of the Church of the Brethren, from which he retired in 
  1983. In retirement, he served as interim pastor to seven Pennsylvania 
  congregations in Harrisburg, Lancaster, Pine Grove, Loganville, Everett, 
  Rehersburg, and Palmyra. Throughout his career, Dr. Bomberger was active in 
  denominational and inter-denominational ministries. He served on the Church of 
  the Brethren General Board, the committee on interchurch relations, the 
  standing committee of annual conference, and was elected moderator, the 
  denomination's highest elective office, for the 1971 annual conference held in 
  St. Petersburg, Fla., In addition, he served as the president of the Kansas 
  Council of Churches, was active on the Pennsylvania Council of Church's 
  Governing Board and many of its committees, including the state pastor's 
  conference committee, was one of the charter members of the Pennsylvania 
  Conference on Interchurch Cooperation, and was the president of the Alumni 
  Association of Elizabethtown College. In 1980, Pastor Bomberger was cited for 
  his many years of leadership as a member of the Board of Directors of Mennonite 
  Mental Health Services, and in 1993, he was named "Peacemaker of the Year" by 
  the Brethren Peace Fellowship of the Atlantic Northeast District. More 
  recently, he was a member of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Biblical 
  Archeological Society, on the executive committee of Lebanon County Christian 
  Ministries, and a member of the program committee of the Mt. Gretna Camp 
  Meeting Association. He was also a charter member and past president of the Mt. 
  Gretna Rotary Club, and as a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International, he 
  enjoyed the opportunity to visit many overseas clubs. Harold's church-related 
  travels took him to the countries of Ecuador, Mexico, British Isles, Northern 
  Ireland, and Nigeria. Study tours were made to the Middle East, Jerusalem, 
  Oxford, England, and St. Andrews in Scotland, as well as an archeological dig 
  in Akko, Israel. In 1967, he was an exchange preacher to the British Isles, 
  which included an invitation for him and his wife to attend Queen Elizabeth's 
  garden party at Buckingham Palace, and a later audience with Pope Paul V of 
  Italy. Surviving are Betty, his loving wife of 64 years; sons Timothy and his 
  wife Debbie of Lewisberry, Pa., Lane and his wife Anita of McPherson, Kan.; and 
  daughter Venona Detrick and her husband Joe of Loganville, Pa. Also surviving 
  are sisters, Dorothy Gottshall of Surfside, S.C., and Ruth Dersch of Grand 
  Rapids, Mich. He cherished time spent with his nine grandchildren and 10 great-
  grandchildren. Three younger brothers, Russell Z., Cyrus Y. of Lebanon County, 
  and Dr. Howard B. of Canfield, Ohio, preceded him in death. A celebration of 
  his life will be held at the Annville Church of the Brethren on Monday, March 
  24, at 3 p.m. Visitation will be held on Monday from 2 to 3 p.m. prior to the 
  service at the church. Family viewing and private burial will be held prior to 
  the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the Fund 
  for Humanities, c/o Annville Church of the Brethren, 495 E. Maple St, Annville, 
  PA 17003.   
  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 3/19/2008.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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