Stillwater Valley News
February 11, 1935
Rev. Ivan L. Erbaugh
Rev. Erbaugh Dies Saturday In Hospital Pastor of Pleasant Hill Church Dies Following Operation- Rites Tuesday. Funerals services for Rev. Ivan L. Erbaugh, pastor of the Church of the Brethren in Pleasant Hill, passed away Saturday evening at the Piqua Memorial hospital were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. H. B. Martin, pastor of the Oakland Church near Gettysburg officiated assisted by Rev. Mark Shellhaas and Rev. I. R. Beery. The services were conducted at the Pleasant Hill Church. Rev. Erbaugh has been in failing health for some time and on Thursday of last week he submitted to an operation for an ulcerated stomach. Following the operation he seemed to be recovering satisfactory until Friday evening. His condition became alarming and death occurred at 6:00 p.m. Saturday. He was 54 years of age. Rev. Erbaugh came here from Union City five months ago to assume the pastorate of the Church of the Brethren. During his brief stay in this community Rev. Erbaugh has made many friends by whom he will be sadly missed. Previous to his coming to Pleasant Hill he had been pastor of the Brethren Church in Union City for 10 years. Surviving are his widow, a daughter Miss Rachel Erbaugh, teacher in the New Carlisle Schools and two sons, Byron at home and Paul in Dayton, two sisters, Mrs. Ina Olt of New Lebanon and Mrs. Laura Neff of Brookville, and Alger and Quinter Erbaugh of New Lebanon. Interment will be made in the Eversole Cemetery near Lebanon under the direction of E. E. Geeting.
Stillwater Valley News
February 22, 1935
Ivan Leroy Erbaugh
Elder Ivan Leroy Erbaugh, was born at the Erbaugh homestead, one mile north of New Lebanon, Ohio on May 21, 1880 and departed this life to his well earned reward on February 9, 1935 at the age of 51 years, 8 months and 19 days. On April 5, 1903. he was married to Della Shank, daughter of Isaac Shank. To this happy union three children were born; Paul, Byron, and Rachel. At the early age of 16 he began his life of service for his Master when he united with the Church of the Brethren. He was made a deacon by the West Dayton Church in 1908. In September 1916 he was elected to the ministry and one year later, having decided to give his full time to the service of God and the church, moved with his family to Chicago to study in Behany Seminary. In March 1921 he began his first pastorate at the Yellow Creek church in Pearl City, Illinois. While serving this church he was ordained to the eldership. In 1923 he moved to Hampton, Iowa, as the pastor and elder of the Union Ridge Church. In September 1921 he became pastor and elder of the Union City Church at Union City, Indiana, at which place he served efficiently and faithfully for ten years. In 1934 he became pastor and elder of the Pleasant Hill church where he was serving at the time he was called home. He had also served as elder in several other churches of southern Ohio. Except for a number of years in the employment of the Dayton Post Office he had devoted all of his energy and strength to the cause of God and the church. Besides his wife and three children, he leaves to mourn his departure, two sisters, Laura Neff, of Brookville and Ina Olt, of New Lebanon, and two brothers, Alger and Quinter Erbaugh of New Lebanon, besides a host of other relatives and friends who will miss the kindly loving, sympathetic spirit which so abundantly emanated from his life.
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