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Floyd R. Wehner
Born: 11/18/1923
Died: 8/31/2018
Age: 94
Community: Mt. Morris, MI
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WEHNER, Floyd R. – Age 94, went to be with the Lord on Friday, August 31, 2018.
Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, September 10, 2018 at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 6100 Richfield Road, Flint, Pastor Leroy Cole and Reverend Pete Scribner co-officiating.
Burial in Great Lakes National Cemetery.
Visitation 1-6 p.m. Sunday, September 9, 2018 at the Swartz Funeral Home, 1225 West Hill Road.
Pastor Wehner will be at the church from 10 a.m. Monday until the time of the service.
Born November 18, 1923 in St. Joseph, Illinois. He was the son of Edward and Grace Wehner and was raised in Plainwell, MI. He was brought up in the Baptist Church.
He was working as a riveter on B-24’s at Willow Run Bomber Plant, when he joined the Marine Corps. on December 8, 1942. He served in a Marine Guard Company at Pearl Harbor. As a guard, later as a typist, and then a Chaplain’s Aid. The Chaplain insisted he take advantage of the GI Bill, as he was college material. He was accepted into college at Bob Jones university in Cleveland, TN and graduated with a BA in 1950.
He then began working on his Seminary Degree at Northern Baptist Seminary in Chicago. He was soon offered a Mission Church at Orangeville, MI, where he continued for 6 years. May 11,1951 he married Cora Kiewiet of Kalamazoo.
He was then called to Pastor the Baptist Church at Reading, MI for nearly 5 years. Finally, he received a call to the Beecher Baptist Church in 1960. in 1973, the property was sold and a new building named Colonial Hills Baptist Church was erected on West Mt. Morris Road.
Cora died July 21, 1978. He married Irene Flannery Elliott April 18, 1982. A heart attack caused an early retirement in 1988. When good health returned he was asked to become the Visitation Pastor at Calvary Presbyterian Church in 1989 and worked part-time there for 21 years. In 2011, Floyd was presented to be Pastor of Visitation at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Otisville, MI, a church that he encouraged and supported in it’s planning in 1966. He served many years on the Board of Conservative Baptist Association of Michigan.
He was a member of the Horatio Alger Society. He preached briefly on TRIX radio, and then had a 12year ministry on WFDF radio.
His hobbies were reading, stamp collecting and traveling.
Surviving are wife, Irene;
children, Marjorie (Ron) Wallace, Edward Wehner, Kay (Jeffrey) Gerstenberger and Paul Wehner;
grandchildren, Benjamin (Lisa) Walker, Jennifer (William) McDermott, Robert Walker, Emily (Dan) Wilson, Andrew Wehner, Elizabeth Wehner, Eric Wehner, Justin Gerstenberger and Amy (Michael) Voiles;
great-grandchildren, Chloe and Will Walker, Drew Wehner, Nicholas and Noah Voiles and Grace McDermott;
special niece, Gail Boehm; second family, Sue Ann Hillman, Sharon (David) Knoodle, Sarah and Abbey Knoodle, Jefferson (Alyssa) Hillman, Mallory and (Michael) Bollinger;
great-grandchildren, Benjamin and Charles Bollinger.
He was preceded in death by his daughter, Connie; great-granddaughter, Ellie Rose McDermott; brothers, John and James and sister, Marjorie Breck.
He loved them all.
Thank you to Heartland Hospice, especially Emily Reynolds.
Your condolences may be shared with the family at swartzfuneralhomeinc.com
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9/10/2018 |
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11:00 AM |
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Calvary Presbyterian Church
6100 Richfield Road
Flint, MI 48506Get a Map to this location...
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