Pentz

The Rev. Carole K. Pentz, 73, of the Whitehall Church of God Campground in Emlenton died at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday at her home of natural causes.

Born July 5, 1933, in Punxsutawney, she was the daughter of Keith and Alta Snyder Kuntz.

She graduated in 1954 from Anderson College, Anderson, Ind., with a bachelor of divinity degree; and she was ordained into the Church of God ministry at Whitehall in 1962.

While at Anderson, she and her husband were associate pastors of the Cloverdale Church of God.

Rev. Pentz pastored at Sipesville Church of God in Somerset County and had served as interim pastor at the First Church of God in Oil City and the former Parker Church of God.

As a team pastor with her husband, the Rev. Howard L. Pentz, whom she married Dec. 23, 1951, they answered the call to the Church of God in Fern, Murrysville, Dutch Hill, and Starr-Tionest in Pennsylvania and served at the Church of God in Friendsville, Md.

Following 26 years of pastoral ministry, they entered full-time missionary callings in South Dakota, Guatemala and other parts of Central and South America.

After the death of her husband, she later made two missionary excursions to Kenya, where she shared the pastoral work of the Say Kenya church mission with Belliah Matenda. In recent years, she hosted Belliah at the Whitehall residence, where they shared the news of Belliah's work with Churches of God in Western Pennsylvania.

In addition to all her church and missionary work, she found the time to be a loving and caring mother of three sons and authored three novels of poetry and prose.

Surviving are three sons and their wives, Keith and Gail Pentz of Sarasota, Fla., Kippard and Vickie Pentz of Emlenton and Karl and Lori Pentz of Dutch Hill, near Parker; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, who died March 4, 1998; a sister, Audrey Jean Smith; and a great-grandchild, Abigail Pentz, who died in July 2006.

<B>PENTZ </B>— Friends of the Rev. Carole K. Pentz, who died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Park Hill Church of God, Lime Plant Road, West Freedom. Visitation also will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, where funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. The Rev. Lonny Wolford and the Park Hill staff will officiate. Burial will be at the Mt. Calvary Cemetery at Dutch Hill, Perry Township, Clarion County.Memorial donations may be made to the Whitehall Camp, 514 Whitehall Road, Emlenton, PA 16373.Arrangements are being handled by the<B> H. Jack Buzard Funeral Home</B>, Parker, and information also is available at www.buzardfuneralhome.com.