Reverend Wayne B. Price

Reverend Wayne B. Price, 91, of 309 Jackson Ave., Warren, Pa., passed away on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at the Warren General Hospital. Rev. Price was born October 4, 1918, in Lottsville, Pa., the son of the late Lloyd Rexford and Florence Chapman Price.

Rev. Price was a graduate of Lottsville High School, received a Bachelors Degree from Allegheny College, and went to Garrett Seminary in Chicago, Ill. He served as a United Methodist Minister for sixty-eight years, serving with the Erie Conference and the Western PA Conference, in Warren, Kinzua, Marienville, and many other churches throughout the western New York and Northwest Pa. region.

He retired in 1986 from Brockway United Methodist Church. He then served as a visiting minister for the Sheffield and Barnes Methodist Churches. He was also Pastor Emeritus of the Grace United Methodist Church of Warren.

He is survived by three children, Lillaine Price, Warren, Wayne A. "Bud" Price, Fairview, Pa., Lucinda "Cindy" Barr and her husband Edward "Roy", Ashboro, N.C., six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and three nieces.

In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife Lillian Jackson Price, whom he married on May 6, 1941 and who passed away on August 3, 2003; and a brother, Lloyd Robert Price.

Friends will be received on Friday evening, July 16, 2010 from 6-8 p.m. at the Grace United Methodist Church parlor, Warren, Pa., and for one hour prior to a funeral service will be held there on Saturday, July 17 at 11:00 a.m., with Rev. Kevin Haley, pastor, Grace United Methodist Church and Rev. Thomas Q. Strandburg, co-officiating.

Burial will be in the Bear Lake Cemetery.

Published in the Erie Times-News on July 15, 2010.


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PRICE, WAYNE BERTIS (ID 4600)

Conference Relations:

Licensed to Preach 1940; Supply Pastor Methodist Erie Conference 1940; Admitted on Trial 1946; Transferred on Trial to Methodist Rock River Conference 1948; Full Member 1948; Deacon 1946, Straughn; Elder 1948, McGee; Transferred to Methodist Erie Conference 1950; Transferred to Methodist Genesee Conference by Boundary Change 1962; Transferred to Methodist Western Pennsylvania Conference 1962; Member United Methodist Western Pennsylvania Conference at Union 1970; Retired: 1986.

Deceased: July 13, 2010 at Warren, PA.

Buried in Bear Lake Cemetery.

Born October 4, 1918 in Lottsville, PA. (His memoir will be in 2011 Journal; Her memoir is in 2004 Journal, page 321).

Appointment Records: Kinzua/Corydon 1940-1941; Marienville 1941-1942; Guys Mills/Mount Hope 1942-1944; Illinois: Rocky River Conference: Lake Bluff Methodist Orphanage 1944-1945; McKenry 1945-1950; Erie Conference: New York: Falconer: Elmwood 1950-1953; Sheridan: Good Neighbor Parish 1953-1959; Sheridan: First 1959-1962; Western PA: Albion: Grace 1962-1967; Warren: Grace 1967-1976; Beaver: First 1976-1983; Brockway: Moorhead 1983-1986; Retired: 1986; Sheffield/Barnes ???-???. (Church Conference - Warren: Grace).

(Information made available for submission to F.A.Grave by Ward White, 12-03-2014.)