The Rev. Karl H Baehr
GARDEN CITY NY -- The Rev. Karl H. Baehr, 77 of Garden City, N.Y., died Sept 15 at Sunharbor Manor in Roslyn, N. Y.
He was born July 8, 1915 in Oberlin, Ohio, the son of J. P. and Edna Martin Baehr.
He received a bachelor of arts degree in 1938 from Bethel College. In 1942 he graduated from Chicago Theological Seminary with high honors and was ordained by the General Conference Mennonite Church.
He married Anne Ruth Ediger in August 1938. She survives.
After seminary graduation, he served the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Chicago and later became a member of the Congregational denomination (now the United Church of Christ).
In 1947 he became executive director of the American Christian Palestine Committee in New York. From 1965 to 1972 he was a staff member of Garden City Community Church and served as a supply preacher and interim pastor for United Church of Christ and Unitarian-Universalist churches in Long Island, N. Y. and Brooklyn, N. Y.
He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Chicago Theological Seminary. He was a lecturer at New York University and the New School for Social Research in New York City.
He was also a sculptor for the past 30 years and had his work exhibited in galleries and museums in the New York area.
Other survivors include a daughter, Beth Alice Bullard of Carlisle, Pa.; a son, Joel Baehr of Winchester, Mass.; and four grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at Bethel College Mennonite Church in North Newton.
The family suggests memorials to Bethel College.
