DEATHS

AND OBITUARIES

David Plett

Services for David Plett, who died March 23, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. Relatives will receive friends from 9:30 a.m. until the service at the church.

Born Dec. 11, 1927, to Cornelius and Katharina (Reimer) Plett in Nickolaipol, Turkestan, he and his family migrated to Canada in 1929. He graduated from high school in Yarrow, British Columbia, and moved to his uncle’s farm near Freeman, South Dakota, where he met and on June 5, 1951, married Elvira Kroeker at the Silverlake Mennonite Brethren Church.

He attended Sioux Falls College and transferred to Tabor College, where he was a pitcher for the college baseball team and graduated in 1954. In 1955, he was a member of the first graduating class of the Mennonite Brethren conference’s seminary in Fresno, California.

After seminary, he was pastor of churches in Ingalls and Cimarron, Kansas; Henderson, Nebraska; Rosedale, California; and Enid and Cordell, Oklahoma.

He retired in 1994 and moved to Hillsboro but soon took interim pastorates at Ulysses, Newton, Hillsboro, Inman, Cimarron, and Topeka, Kansas, and Henderson, Nebraska. For eight years he was visitation pastor at the Hillsboro MB Church.

He also started an internet ministry, sending out Bible verses and devotionals.

In 2018, the couple moved to Newton to live with their daughter, Norine, where he remained after his wife’s death in 2020.

Also preceding him in death were an infant grandson, four sisters, and four brothers.

Survivors include daughters Cindy Vix of Olathe, Norine Plett of Newton, Beverly Plett of Hillsboro, and Brenda Rust of Elbing; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Memorials have been established with Good Shepherd Hospice and MB Missions.