January 11, 1930, son of Jacob T. and
Marie Regehr. He died May 26, 2022, in North Newton,
Bill graduated from Inman High School
in1948 and Bethel College in 1958. During the Korean war Bill entered
alternative service as a Mennonite Voluntary Service worker in
Portland, Maine. He married Lora Maurine Voth July 26, 1955, at
Bethel Mennonite Church near Inman. They spent a year in
Newfoundland, Canada, where Bill taught school. Other schools
included Welcome and Little Valley (rural Inman), Washington
(Newton), Pleasant Acres and Suncrest (east of Newton). Bill taught
for the Indian Service at Berego Pass, New Mexico, and Oraibi (now
Kykotsmovi) Arizona for 4 years. In 1966 the family moved to Academy
Street in Hesston. He and Maurine raised their family there. Bill put
in a big garden and built a shop. He worked at Hesston College
starting in 1974 as director of custodial service. Bill enjoyed
drawing, photography, and ceramics. Many of Bill?s mugs with Low
German sayings were sold at the Kansas MCC sale. Bill and Maurine
moved to Kidron Bethel in 2015 and joined Faith Mennonite Church.
Preceding him in death: parents Jacob T. and Marie (Regier) Regehr,
adult siblings Eldo (Mary Ann Balzer) Regehr, Lilly Ann (Herb)
Neufeld, and Ted (Alice Penner) Regehr, and siblings who died in
childhood: Wilber, Leo James, and Mary Jane. Survivors: wife Maurine
(Voth) Regehr, children Lowell Peter Regehr (Carol Sisson), Mark
David Regehr (Darlene Blair), Kristine Kay Regehr, and Paul?Jack?
Lamar Regehr (Judy Naillon), and siblings Evelyn (Ed) Peters and
David (Judy Voth) Regehr, six grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren. Memorial gifts: Kidron Bethel Benevolent Fund,
Faith Mennonite Church, and Mennonite Central Committee.
