Bishop Wilmer Ray Wenger, Sr

1910 - 1945  (34 years)

• Name	Wilmer Ray Wenger  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Title	Bishop
  Suffix	Sr
  Birth	27 Oct 1910	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Family Search ID	KZ67-3F7
  Occupation	Musoma, Mara, Tanzania   [1]
  	Missionary
  Death	9 Jun 1945	Musoma, Mara, Tanzania   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I23182	Woodworth Ancestry
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Harry Groff Wenger,   b. 13 Apr 1873, Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA d. 25 Aug 1934, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anna Lefever Buckwalter,   b. 30 Aug 1874, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Jun 1971, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 96 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F12175	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Miriam Esbenshade Landis,   b. 26 Mar 1914, East Lampeter, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA d. 3 Jul 2015, Lititz, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 101 years)
  Marriage	10 Jun 1934  [1, 5]
  Children	1. Living > 2. Living   3. Living
  Family ID	F12174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 27 Oct 1910 - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Occupation - Missionary - - Musoma, Mara, Tanzania Death - 9 Jun 1945 - Musoma, Mara, Tanzania  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S1192] Landis, Ira D, The Landis Family Book- Section III, (Location: Bareville, Pennsylvania, USA; Date: Nov 1953;), Chapter II - Pages 006-009 John Landis - Elizabeth Burkholder. Book found on Internet Archive landisfamilybook03land.pdf https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18543694W/The_Landis_family_book?edition=ia%3Alandisfamilybook03land https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18543694W/The_Landis_family_book?edition=ia%3Alandisfamilybook03land [S1193] Ancestry.com, U.S., Consular Reports of Births, 1910-1949, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Decimal Files, compiled 1910 - 1949; Record Group: 59, General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002; Series ARC ID: 2555709; Series MLR Number: A1 3001; Series Box Number: 452; File Number: 131. Record for Daniel Landis Wenger https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1664&h=35464&indiv=try [S385] Ancestry.com, U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Lancaster Newspapers; Publication Place: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA; URL: http://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/miriam-e-landis-wenger-shenk/article_dea7c3d5-74cc-5879-91ca-562957c5768b.html. Record for Miriam E. Wenger Shenk https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7545&h=500122012&indiv=try [S1194] Ancestry.com, U.S., Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.; NAI Number: 302021; Record Group Title: General Records of the Department of State; Record Group Number: Record Group 59; Series Number: Publication A1 205; Box Number: 1707; Box Description: 1945-1949 Kenya A - Z. Record for Wilmer Ray Wenger https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1616&h=173005&indiv=try [S678] Ancestry.com, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;). Record for Ray Wenger https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60592&h=567327&indiv=try