Pine Village Pastor Dies
PINE VILLAGE - Rev. LeRoy McDowell, 58, pastor of Pine Village Free Methodist church, died at 5:20 p.m. Thursday in St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette, where he had been a patient six days. He had been in failing health for five years.
Born in Lafayette, he was reared there and attended Greenville college, Greenville, Ill., as a special Bible student. He was married in 1921 at Greenville to Adine E. Melton. A minister in the Wabash conference of Free Methodist church since 1921, he has served at Bedford, First Church of Indianapolis, Mars Hill church, Indianapolis, Petersburg, and Lawrenceville, Ill. For nine years he was district superintendent of Wabash conference and in 1951 was elected general conference evangelist serving in that post for three years. He was also past president of Central Area Ministers association of the Free Methodist church. In Florida, where he moved because of ill health, he was minister of First Church of Tampa four years and returned to Indiana in August, 1957, when he went to Pine Village.
Surviving with the widow are one daughter, Mrs. J. T. Oschwald of Tampa, Fla.; four brothers, George P., William R., and Arthur J., all of Lafayette, and Edward of Indianapolis; and two sisters, Mrs. R. C. Perry and Mrs. Clyde Platt, both of Indianapolis.
Published in the Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana) - Friday, January 24, 1958.
PINE VILLAGE - Rev. LeRoy McDowell, 58, pastor of Pine Village Free Methodist church, died at 5:20 p.m. Thursday in St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette, where he had been a patient six days. He had been in failing health for five years.
Born in Lafayette, he was reared there and attended Greenville college, Greenville, Ill., as a special Bible student. He was married in 1921 at Greenville to Adine E. Melton. A minister in the Wabash conference of Free Methodist church since 1921, he has served at Bedford, First Church of Indianapolis, Mars Hill church, Indianapolis, Petersburg, and Lawrenceville, Ill. For nine years he was district superintendent of Wabash conference and in 1951 was elected general conference evangelist serving in that post for three years. He was also past president of Central Area Ministers association of the Free Methodist church. In Florida, where he moved because of ill health, he was minister of First Church of Tampa four years and returned to Indiana in August, 1957, when he went to Pine Village.
Surviving with the widow are one daughter, Mrs. J. T. Oschwald of Tampa, Fla.; four brothers, George P., William R., and Arthur J., all of Lafayette, and Edward of Indianapolis; and two sisters, Mrs. R. C. Perry and Mrs. Clyde Platt, both of Indianapolis.
Published in the Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana) - Friday, January 24, 1958.
Pine Village Pastor Dies
PINE VILLAGE - Rev. LeRoy McDowell, 58, pastor of Pine Village Free Methodist church, died at 5:20 p.m. Thursday in St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette, where he had been a patient six days. He had been in failing health for five years.
Born in Lafayette, he was reared there and attended Greenville college, Greenville, Ill., as a special Bible student. He was married in 1921 at Greenville to Adine E. Melton. A minister in the Wabash conference of Free Methodist church since 1921, he has served at Bedford, First Church of Indianapolis, Mars Hill church, Indianapolis, Petersburg, and Lawrenceville, Ill. For nine years he was district superintendent of Wabash conference and in 1951 was elected general conference evangelist serving in that post for three years. He was also past president of Central Area Ministers association of the Free Methodist church. In Florida, where he moved because of ill health, he was minister of First Church of Tampa four years and returned to Indiana in August, 1957, when he went to Pine Village.
Surviving with the widow are one daughter, Mrs. J. T. Oschwald of Tampa, Fla.; four brothers, George P., William R., and Arthur J., all of Lafayette, and Edward of Indianapolis; and two sisters, Mrs. R. C. Perry and Mrs. Clyde Platt, both of Indianapolis.
Published in the Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana) - Friday, January 24, 1958.
PINE VILLAGE - Rev. LeRoy McDowell, 58, pastor of Pine Village Free Methodist church, died at 5:20 p.m. Thursday in St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette, where he had been a patient six days. He had been in failing health for five years.
Born in Lafayette, he was reared there and attended Greenville college, Greenville, Ill., as a special Bible student. He was married in 1921 at Greenville to Adine E. Melton. A minister in the Wabash conference of Free Methodist church since 1921, he has served at Bedford, First Church of Indianapolis, Mars Hill church, Indianapolis, Petersburg, and Lawrenceville, Ill. For nine years he was district superintendent of Wabash conference and in 1951 was elected general conference evangelist serving in that post for three years. He was also past president of Central Area Ministers association of the Free Methodist church. In Florida, where he moved because of ill health, he was minister of First Church of Tampa four years and returned to Indiana in August, 1957, when he went to Pine Village.
Surviving with the widow are one daughter, Mrs. J. T. Oschwald of Tampa, Fla.; four brothers, George P., William R., and Arthur J., all of Lafayette, and Edward of Indianapolis; and two sisters, Mrs. R. C. Perry and Mrs. Clyde Platt, both of Indianapolis.
Published in the Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana) - Friday, January 24, 1958.
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