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08 Jan

January 8, 2026 |

Rev. Lynn E. Mefferd passed away January 6, 2026, at Heritage Pointe of Warren, Ind. He was a United Brethren pastor for 44 years and a missionary in Sierra Leone for ten years.

  • Visitation: 2-7 pm Friday, January 9, 2026, at Adkins Bailey-Love Mortuary, 35 West Park Drive, Huntington, Ind.
  • Funeral: 10am Saturday, January 10, at College Park UB church, 1945 College Ave., Huntington, Ind. There will be an hour of visitation prior to the service.

Lynn Mefferd was born in 1939, and was converted in 1946 at age 7. He cited his home church as Wren UB in Wren, Ohio, near Van Wert. In 1961 he married Betty Jean Myers, and that year they began pastoring the Zion UB church near Wilshire, Ohio. In 1963 they began five years at the Fairview and Convoy UB churches.

Mefferd graduated from Huntington College in 1965 and from the HC Seminary in 1968. He was ordained as a UB minister in 1968. That year, he and Betty were appointed as missionaries to Sierra Leone, serving in Freetown–Lynn as business manager, Betty as hostess for the many missionaries who stayed at the mission house. During one furlough, Lynn took a year of training at the School of World Missions and the Institute of Church Growth at Fuller Theological Seminary in California.

After leaving missionary service, Mefferd resume pastoral ministry:

  • 1978-1984 at Prescott Avenue UB church (now Lighthouse Community UB in Dayton, Ohio).
  • 1984-1989 at Decatur UB (Decatur, Ind.).
  • 1989-1991 at Convoy UB (Convoy, Ohio).
  • 1991-2004 at Dillman UB (Warren, Ind.).
  • 2004-2015 as pastor of Congregational Care at New Hope UB church in Huntington, Ind., serving alongside senior pastor Ray Seilhamer.

Mefferd was granted retired status in 2018. At the time of his death, he was a member of College Park UB in Huntington, Ind.

Mefferd’s online obituary says, “He had a servant’s heart and especially enjoyed caring for the people of his church congregations….He enjoyed reading books and singing songs to his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He also enjoyed fishing, golfing, watching sports on TV, camping, traveling, doing puzzles, and eating ice cream. Pastor Lynn loved to sing in church and he enjoyed waking his daughters in the mornings with song.”

Mefferd is survived by his wife Betty, three daughters (Deborah, Joanne, and Cheryl), nine grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

Preferred memorials may be made in memory of Lynn Mefferd to:

  • UB Global, 302 Lake Street, Huntington, Ind.
  • College Park United Brethren in Christ Church, Huntington, Ind.

 

(Written by Steve Dennie)

06 Jan

January 6, 2026 |
Rev. Richard “Dick” C. Case, 82, passed away December 31, 2025, in West Lafayette, Ind.

 

Dick was born in 1943, and grew up in Wichita, Kansas, in the Bethel United Brethren church. He was converted in 1958. In 1964, he married Darlene Birdsall in Claire, Mich.

 

Dick graduated from Huntington University in 1966 and from the Huntington Theological Seminary in 1972.  He was ordained in 1974.

 

Dick pastored a nondenominational church for five years, and then served three years as pastor of the UB church in Kettering, Ohio. That was followed by nine years as campus minister of Hutchinson Community College in  Hutchinson, Kansas. In 1991, he began 13 years as pastor of Crestview UB church in Lafayette, Ind. In 2004, he became senior pastor of the Dillman UB church in Warren, Ind. He retired from there in 2013. In retirement, from 2014-2021, Dick was chaplain of the Heritage Pointe retirement center in Fort Wayne, Ind.

 

Dick is survived by his wife, Darlene, daughters Tonia and Amber, and six grandchildren.

 

A memorial service was held January 5, 2026, at Covenant Church in West Lafayette, Ind.

 

Written by Steve Dennie