Robert C. Gumbert
The Rev. Robert C. Gumbert died Saturday, March 23, 2013, in the home of his son in Virginia.
He was born January 5, 1929, in East McKeesport, a son of the late Franklin “Clyde” and Viola Gumbert.
The Rev. Gumbert served 18 months in the U.S. Army as a member of the GHQ band stationed in Tokyo, Japan.
He received a bachelor of theology degree from Mount Union College and a master of divinity degree from Drew Theological Seminary.
The Rev. Gumbert served as a pastor briefly in the Southern New York Conference of the Methodist Church, where he met and married Ellen Darrow of West Burlington Township. They moved to the Allegheny Conference in Western Pennsylvania, where he spent the majority of his career serving as pastor to 20 churches. He also served as chaplain at Braddock Hospital.
As a member of the Murrysville Area Soaring Society and the Academy of Model Aeronautics, he enjoyed building and flying radio-controlled model airplanes.
Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Ellen Gumbert; three children, Elaine and husband Mark Legner of Graymont, Ill., Clyde and wife Nancy Gumbert of Hampton, Va., and Carol Gumbert of Waterford, Mich.; two sisters, Evelyn Bevan and Audrey Markferding; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
His life and service to God will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, April 5, in Monroeville United Methodist Church. In lieu of flowers, his family requests donations be made in his memory to Monroeville United Methodist Church or Alzheimer’s Foundation.