OBIT: Rev. Dr. Paul C. SHUMAKER, 1983, Greenville, Somerset County, PA
  
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  DR. PAUL C. SHUMAKER
  
    The Rev. Dr. Paul C. Shumaker, 75, of 201 College Ave., Greenville,
  Pa., died at 7:25 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23, 1983, in Greenville Hospital
  following a brief illness. 
    He was born in Meyersdale on July 20, 1907, and was a son of
  Franklin and Nora Housel Shumaker.  He married Laurette May Simpson
  on June 1, 1931, who survives.
    He was a graduate of Meyersdale High School, Franklin and Marshall
  Academy, Franklin and Marshall College and Lancaster Theological
  Seminary.  In 1955, he received an honorary doctorate of divinity
  degree from Franklin and Marshall College.
    He had served as pastor of St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed
  Church, Sharon; First Church, Lebanon; and was pastor of Zion's
  Reformed Church, Greenville, from 1943 to 1962, when he became first
  president of Penn West Conference, United Church of Christ.  He held
  this position until 1968.
    At the time of his death, he was pastor of St. Paul Homes for the
  Aged, Greenville, a position he had held since 1971.  He was a former
  member of the board of directors and first vice president of St. Paul
  Homes.
    He was a member of the Thiel College Community Administrative
  Board; past president, Greenville Community Chest; past president,
  Greenville Kiwanis Club, receiving the distinguished service award
  from Kiwanis International in 1971.
    He was a past member of the Greenville Area Public Library Board,
  on the advisory board of the Salvation Army and dean of the
  Greenville Leadership Training School.
    In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Carole
  J., wife of Franklynn Stephenson, Avon, N.Y.; and Linda J., wife of
  Dr. Robert G. Hayes, South Bend, Ind.; a brother, Robert Shumaker,
  Meyersdale, and eight grandchildren.
    Friends were received at William K. Baird Funeral Home.
    Services were held in the chapel at Zion's Reformed United Church
  of Christ, with the Rev. Robert K. Nace, D.D.; Dr. Paul L. Westcoat
  Jr., conference minister of Penn West Conference; and Rev. L. Collins
  Defibaugh, executive director of St. Paul Homes, officiating. 
  Interment, Avon Cemetery, N.Y.
  
  The Republic, February 3, 1983
  
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