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April 2005 |
Paul Milhouse, last former EUB bishop, dead at age 94
United Methodist Bishop Paul W. Milhouse, the last remaining bishop elected by the former Evangelical United Brethren Church, died March 12 in Franklin, Ind. He was 94.
Milhouse was elected a bishop by mail ballot in the former EUB Church in November 1960, eight years before the denomination merged with the Methodist Church to become The United Methodist Church. He was a member of the Commission on Union of the Evangelical United Brethren and Methodist churches. At the time of the Methodist-EUB union in 1968, there were one retired and seven active EUB bishops.
Milhouse spent eight years supervising EUB churches in the denomination's Southwestern Area with offices in Kansas City before being assigned to the Oklahoma Area of the new church in 1968. He retired in 1980.
He was president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops 1977-78. Before being elected a bishop, he was pastor of churches at Elliott, Olney and Decatur, Ill., associate editor of the EUB Telescope-Messenger magazine and staff executive of the EUB General Council of Administration. From 1980 to 1991, he served as bishop in residence at Oklahoma City University. He then served as bishop in residence at the University of Indianapolis until 1998.
Milhouse was born in St. Francisville, Ill. on Aug. 31, 1910, the son of Willis C. and Carrie Pence Milhouse. He was reared in St. Francisville and graduated from Lawrenceville (Ill.) High School in 1928. He began preaching at Birds, Ill. in the summer of 1928, when he was 17 years old. He earned his undergraduate degree from Indiana Central College, known today as the University of Indianapolis, where he later received a doctor of divinity degree. He earned another divinity degree from American Theological Seminary in Wilmington, Del.
He was the author of 17 books, including a biography of Phillip William Otterbein, founder of the United Brethren Church, which merged in 1946 with the Evangelical Church to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church. He also wrote histories of Oklahoma City University and the Franklin United Methodist Community. He and his wife moved to Franklin United Methodist Community in June 1991.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Frances Noblitt Milhouse, whom he married in 1932; two daughters, Mary Catherine Hauswald and Pauline Joyce Vermillion; a son, Paul David Milhouse; one sister, Dorothy Jacobs; seven grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service for Millhouse was held March 16 in the chapel at the Franklin United Methodist Community, with burial at Garland Brook Cemetery in Columbus, Ind. Bishop William Oden officiated.
Memorials can be given to Franklin United Methodist Community, the University of Indianapolis and Oklahoma City University.
Information for parts of this story came from the United Methodist News Service.
Last updated on 25 Apr 2008