Vernon Neufeld, Bethel's Seventh President, Dies at 88
July 22, 2008
July 22, 2008
NORTH NEWTON, Kan., July 22 -- Bethel College issued the following news release:
Bethel College's seventh president, Vernon H. Neufeld, died July 18 in Bakersfield, Calif., after a brief illness.
He was born April 11, 1920, in Shafter, Calif., one of six children of Nicolai and Justina Neufeld, and raised on the Neufeld family farm west of Shafter. He graduated from Wasco Union High Schools in 1939 and married Ruth I. Neumann Nov. 17, 1940.
After . . .
Bethel College's seventh president, Vernon H. Neufeld, died July 18 in Bakersfield, Calif., after a brief illness.
He was born April 11, 1920, in Shafter, Calif., one of six children of Nicolai and Justina Neufeld, and raised on the Neufeld family farm west of Shafter. He graduated from Wasco Union High Schools in 1939 and married Ruth I. Neumann Nov. 17, 1940.
After . . .