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.