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Chronology of Pastors at DeBows

1896 – 1897 Frank A. Fielder
1897 – 1898 Frank Woodfield
1898 – 1899 J. E. Simpson
March 1900 – March 1901 G.C. Reynolds
April 1901 – Sept 1901 S. N. Clark
Sept 1901 – March 1902 F. F. Voorhees
1902 – 1906  I. S. Whitaker
1906 – March 1908 W. H. J. Cattell
March 1908 – 1909 B. J. K. Way
March 1909 – Nov 1909 C. H. Dilks
Nov 1909 – May 1911 George H. Van Note
May 1911 – April 1912 J. A. Struyk
April 1912 – April 1913 Vincent H. Van Horn
April 1913 – March 1914 C. M. Holgate
March 1914 – March 1916 Frank Woodfield
March 1916 – Aug 1918 O. H. Bloomster
Aug 1918 – Nov 1919 Ellinghouse
Nov 1919 – March 1920 Robert M. Henry
March 1920 – March 1921 Wilbert Gray
March 1921 – March 1922 Charles E. Davis
April 1922 – March 1924 Otis F. Van Brunt
March 1924 – Sept 1946 Robert S. Childs
Sept 1946 – Sept 1953 Frederick L. Hall
Sept 1953 – Oct 1955 Rainold B. Rierson
Oct 1955 – Dec 1955 Samuel Rumford (Died while Pastor)
Dec 1955 – Sept 1956 R. D. Robinson (Robert)
Sept 1956 – Sept 1960 Frederick H. Pagels
Sept 1960 – May 1962 Robert Carlyon
June 1962 – Sept 1963 C. Ronald Miller
Sept 1963 – June 1965 William Henry Poe
June 1965 –   June 1972  H. Ellsworth Holmes
June 1972 – May 1977 Horace Frantz
June 1972 – May 1973 (assistant) Robert Bayley
June 1973 – June 1975 (assistant) Theodore Gill
June 1975 – May 1977 (assistant) Peter Starr
June 1977 – June 1985 David Wilson
June 1977 – May 1979 (assistant) Dennis Dewey
June 1979 – July 1979 (interim) Larry Potts
Sept 1979 – May 1981 Steve Tuell
June 1981 – Oct 1982 Jeffery Taylor
Oct 1982 – May 1983 Jeffery Taylor & Sally Bolitho
June 1983 – Dec 1989 Bernard Duigon
Jan 1990 – April 1990 (interim) Horace Frantz
May 1990 – June 1990 (interim) Newton W. Griener
July 1990 – Nov 1992 Samuel Savage
Nov 1992 – Jan 1993 (interim) Horace Frantz
Jan 1993 – June 1993 Nancy Fromm
July 1993 – June 1994 Frederick Freese Jr.
July 1994 – Aug 1994 (interim) Horace Frantz
Sep 1994 – 1998 Neill Tolboom
1998 – 2000 Joanne Wheaton
2000 – 2002 Milton Beeman
2002 – 2004 Lynn E. Wilson
2004 – June 2015 Elizabeth (Betty) Gibbons
July 2015 – June 2017 Ernie Williams
July 2017 – June 2018 Lawrence “Wren” Hillis
July 2018 – June 2022 Denise Tiedemann
July 2022 – Scott Clifton

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