David Kuhl Allcorn began his heavenly journey with the Lord on January 29, 2008, after living a full and spirit-filled life for 79 years. He was born July 7, 1928, in Freedom, Pennsylvania, the oldest son of four children of Clarence and Elizabeth Kuhl Allcorn. His younger brothers, Paul and John, and his sister, Lohra, still reside near Freedom and still attend the family church, Freedom United Methodist, formerly Freedom Evangelical Church. He was a loving husband for 58 years to Shirley Todd Allcorn and devoted father to seven children: Ronald, Doris (Weir), Cathleen (Harbaugh), Ruth (Kapley), William, Rebecca (Evans), and Gloria. He also had 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
After graduating from high school, David pursued a B.S. degree in chemistry and physics from Shippensburg State College and started a promising career as a chemist with Ashland Oil; however, at the age of 22, he answered the Lord's call to ministry. Shortly after his marriage to Shirley Todd on January 7, 1950, he was appointed as a local pastor at Orbisonia Evangelical United Brethren Church in the coal-mining mountains of south central Pennsylvania.
After eight years of ministry, he felt compelled to return to the Pittsburgh area and was asked to be the Interim pastor of Immanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church. Shortly after the interim position was undertaken, Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church was added to the Immanuel Charge, and full-time ministry began in the impoverished North Side community of Pittsburgh.
During those years in Pittsburgh, David was admitted to full membership and ordained elder in the ministry of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1965. With the merger of 1968, his membership was placed with the Western Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Over the course of 28 years, the struggling ministry at Immanuel became a Western Pennsylvania Conference Advance special and national Advance special mission program under the General Board of Global Ministries. What was once one building dedicated to worship became four buildings covering half a city block. Virtually all conceivable needs of the residents of the community had programs to meet them and guide the recipients toward self-subsistence. A clothes cupboard made available free—or at a reduced price—necessary clothing, a food co-op made available perishable and non-perishable foods, and office meeting places were available to all residents in coordination with Allegheny General Hospital and Allegheny County mental health and retardation agencies. Financial planning and education professionals were made available through Immanuel to address the low-income and educational issues plaguing the North Side community and its residents.
During the last ten years of this North Side Ministry, a program was begun to prove the viability of teaching the severely mentally challenged how to manufacture complex electronic components for the model train industry, known as Power Resources Association. Significant inroads were made, and many of David's designs were not only skillfully made by the client employees, but were also successfully sold to retail outlets throughout western Pennsylvania. The operating standards and teaching procedures established and proven by Power Resources Association consequently became adopted by handicapped-training programs throughout Allegheny County.
In 1988, David and Shirley retired from Immanuel Church and moved to Marion, North Carolina, to assist in the care of Shirley's ailing parents. He was granted retirement by the Western Pennsylvania Conference in 1989, and in that same year he was appointed to the Marion: Clinchfield-Concord charge in the Western North Carolina Conference. Beginning in 1992, David served only Concord Church, until quadruple by-pass surgery led to full retirement. At the annual conference of 1996, his membership was transferred to the Western North Carolina Conference. May of 2000 was the successful culmination of 50 years of discipleship for Christ, as he was elected by Concord Church as minister emeritus.
Following David's death on January 29, 2008, at Marion, funeral services were conducted on January 31 at Concord Church by Chester R. West, pastor, and Phillip B. Cole, district superintendent, with interment in the church cemetery.
Ronald C. Allcorn
After graduating from high school, David pursued a B.S. degree in chemistry and physics from Shippensburg State College and started a promising career as a chemist with Ashland Oil; however, at the age of 22, he answered the Lord's call to ministry. Shortly after his marriage to Shirley Todd on January 7, 1950, he was appointed as a local pastor at Orbisonia Evangelical United Brethren Church in the coal-mining mountains of south central Pennsylvania.
After eight years of ministry, he felt compelled to return to the Pittsburgh area and was asked to be the Interim pastor of Immanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church. Shortly after the interim position was undertaken, Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church was added to the Immanuel Charge, and full-time ministry began in the impoverished North Side community of Pittsburgh.
During those years in Pittsburgh, David was admitted to full membership and ordained elder in the ministry of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1965. With the merger of 1968, his membership was placed with the Western Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Over the course of 28 years, the struggling ministry at Immanuel became a Western Pennsylvania Conference Advance special and national Advance special mission program under the General Board of Global Ministries. What was once one building dedicated to worship became four buildings covering half a city block. Virtually all conceivable needs of the residents of the community had programs to meet them and guide the recipients toward self-subsistence. A clothes cupboard made available free—or at a reduced price—necessary clothing, a food co-op made available perishable and non-perishable foods, and office meeting places were available to all residents in coordination with Allegheny General Hospital and Allegheny County mental health and retardation agencies. Financial planning and education professionals were made available through Immanuel to address the low-income and educational issues plaguing the North Side community and its residents.
During the last ten years of this North Side Ministry, a program was begun to prove the viability of teaching the severely mentally challenged how to manufacture complex electronic components for the model train industry, known as Power Resources Association. Significant inroads were made, and many of David's designs were not only skillfully made by the client employees, but were also successfully sold to retail outlets throughout western Pennsylvania. The operating standards and teaching procedures established and proven by Power Resources Association consequently became adopted by handicapped-training programs throughout Allegheny County.
In 1988, David and Shirley retired from Immanuel Church and moved to Marion, North Carolina, to assist in the care of Shirley's ailing parents. He was granted retirement by the Western Pennsylvania Conference in 1989, and in that same year he was appointed to the Marion: Clinchfield-Concord charge in the Western North Carolina Conference. Beginning in 1992, David served only Concord Church, until quadruple by-pass surgery led to full retirement. At the annual conference of 1996, his membership was transferred to the Western North Carolina Conference. May of 2000 was the successful culmination of 50 years of discipleship for Christ, as he was elected by Concord Church as minister emeritus.
Following David's death on January 29, 2008, at Marion, funeral services were conducted on January 31 at Concord Church by Chester R. West, pastor, and Phillip B. Cole, district superintendent, with interment in the church cemetery.
Ronald C. Allcorn
David Kuhl Allcorn began his heavenly journey with the Lord on January 29, 2008, after living a full and spirit-filled life for 79 years. He was born July 7, 1928, in Freedom, Pennsylvania, the oldest son of four children of Clarence and Elizabeth Kuhl Allcorn. His younger brothers, Paul and John, and his sister, Lohra, still reside near Freedom and still attend the family church, Freedom United Methodist, formerly Freedom Evangelical Church. He was a loving husband for 58 years to Shirley Todd Allcorn and devoted father to seven children: Ronald, Doris (Weir), Cathleen (Harbaugh), Ruth (Kapley), William, Rebecca (Evans), and Gloria. He also had 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
After graduating from high school, David pursued a B.S. degree in chemistry and physics from Shippensburg State College and started a promising career as a chemist with Ashland Oil; however, at the age of 22, he answered the Lord's call to ministry. Shortly after his marriage to Shirley Todd on January 7, 1950, he was appointed as a local pastor at Orbisonia Evangelical United Brethren Church in the coal-mining mountains of south central Pennsylvania.
After eight years of ministry, he felt compelled to return to the Pittsburgh area and was asked to be the Interim pastor of Immanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church. Shortly after the interim position was undertaken, Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church was added to the Immanuel Charge, and full-time ministry began in the impoverished North Side community of Pittsburgh.
During those years in Pittsburgh, David was admitted to full membership and ordained elder in the ministry of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1965. With the merger of 1968, his membership was placed with the Western Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Over the course of 28 years, the struggling ministry at Immanuel became a Western Pennsylvania Conference Advance special and national Advance special mission program under the General Board of Global Ministries. What was once one building dedicated to worship became four buildings covering half a city block. Virtually all conceivable needs of the residents of the community had programs to meet them and guide the recipients toward self-subsistence. A clothes cupboard made available free—or at a reduced price—necessary clothing, a food co-op made available perishable and non-perishable foods, and office meeting places were available to all residents in coordination with Allegheny General Hospital and Allegheny County mental health and retardation agencies. Financial planning and education professionals were made available through Immanuel to address the low-income and educational issues plaguing the North Side community and its residents.
During the last ten years of this North Side Ministry, a program was begun to prove the viability of teaching the severely mentally challenged how to manufacture complex electronic components for the model train industry, known as Power Resources Association. Significant inroads were made, and many of David's designs were not only skillfully made by the client employees, but were also successfully sold to retail outlets throughout western Pennsylvania. The operating standards and teaching procedures established and proven by Power Resources Association consequently became adopted by handicapped-training programs throughout Allegheny County.
In 1988, David and Shirley retired from Immanuel Church and moved to Marion, North Carolina, to assist in the care of Shirley's ailing parents. He was granted retirement by the Western Pennsylvania Conference in 1989, and in that same year he was appointed to the Marion: Clinchfield-Concord charge in the Western North Carolina Conference. Beginning in 1992, David served only Concord Church, until quadruple by-pass surgery led to full retirement. At the annual conference of 1996, his membership was transferred to the Western North Carolina Conference. May of 2000 was the successful culmination of 50 years of discipleship for Christ, as he was elected by Concord Church as minister emeritus.
Following David's death on January 29, 2008, at Marion, funeral services were conducted on January 31 at Concord Church by Chester R. West, pastor, and Phillip B. Cole, district superintendent, with interment in the church cemetery.
Ronald C. Allcorn
After graduating from high school, David pursued a B.S. degree in chemistry and physics from Shippensburg State College and started a promising career as a chemist with Ashland Oil; however, at the age of 22, he answered the Lord's call to ministry. Shortly after his marriage to Shirley Todd on January 7, 1950, he was appointed as a local pastor at Orbisonia Evangelical United Brethren Church in the coal-mining mountains of south central Pennsylvania.
After eight years of ministry, he felt compelled to return to the Pittsburgh area and was asked to be the Interim pastor of Immanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church. Shortly after the interim position was undertaken, Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church was added to the Immanuel Charge, and full-time ministry began in the impoverished North Side community of Pittsburgh.
During those years in Pittsburgh, David was admitted to full membership and ordained elder in the ministry of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1965. With the merger of 1968, his membership was placed with the Western Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Over the course of 28 years, the struggling ministry at Immanuel became a Western Pennsylvania Conference Advance special and national Advance special mission program under the General Board of Global Ministries. What was once one building dedicated to worship became four buildings covering half a city block. Virtually all conceivable needs of the residents of the community had programs to meet them and guide the recipients toward self-subsistence. A clothes cupboard made available free—or at a reduced price—necessary clothing, a food co-op made available perishable and non-perishable foods, and office meeting places were available to all residents in coordination with Allegheny General Hospital and Allegheny County mental health and retardation agencies. Financial planning and education professionals were made available through Immanuel to address the low-income and educational issues plaguing the North Side community and its residents.
During the last ten years of this North Side Ministry, a program was begun to prove the viability of teaching the severely mentally challenged how to manufacture complex electronic components for the model train industry, known as Power Resources Association. Significant inroads were made, and many of David's designs were not only skillfully made by the client employees, but were also successfully sold to retail outlets throughout western Pennsylvania. The operating standards and teaching procedures established and proven by Power Resources Association consequently became adopted by handicapped-training programs throughout Allegheny County.
In 1988, David and Shirley retired from Immanuel Church and moved to Marion, North Carolina, to assist in the care of Shirley's ailing parents. He was granted retirement by the Western Pennsylvania Conference in 1989, and in that same year he was appointed to the Marion: Clinchfield-Concord charge in the Western North Carolina Conference. Beginning in 1992, David served only Concord Church, until quadruple by-pass surgery led to full retirement. At the annual conference of 1996, his membership was transferred to the Western North Carolina Conference. May of 2000 was the successful culmination of 50 years of discipleship for Christ, as he was elected by Concord Church as minister emeritus.
Following David's death on January 29, 2008, at Marion, funeral services were conducted on January 31 at Concord Church by Chester R. West, pastor, and Phillip B. Cole, district superintendent, with interment in the church cemetery.
Ronald C. Allcorn
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