Nelson Bradford
May 14th, 2010, 11:27 AM
(Copied from: http://daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=456672)
D. Morris Chalfant, 89, a Nazarene minister and a columnist for The Daily Journal for more than a decade, died Monday at ManorCare Health Services in Kankakee.
Arrangements are pending at the Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home in west Kankakee.
From 1990 to 2001, Chalfant's columns appeared regularly in The Daily Journal. He frequently wrote on the history of holidays, while extolling the virtues of honesty, charity, work and prayer.
Chalfant was a star basketball player, who went on to pastor Nazarene churches in the Illinois towns of Havana and Eureka, as well as Bartlesville, Okla., and Seattle. He was also a missionary in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He remained active long after what many others would have considered retirement age. Well into his 70s, he would still conduct old-fashioned tent crusades. He was also the chaplain at Provena Heritage Village in the 1990s.
His wife, Yvonne Chalfant, and their son, Erik Chalfant, are among his survivors.
Chalfant Hall, the chapel on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University, is named for Morris Chalfant's father, E.O. Chalfant. E.O. Chalfant, who died in 1952, was an Olivet trustee for 37 years. Chalfant Hall was built in 1963.
Visitation for the Rev. D. Morris Chalfant, 89, of Kankakee, will be from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home, west Kankakee, and from 10 a.m. Monday at College Church of the Nazarene in Bourbonnais, until the 11 a.m. funeral service.
Burial will be in Kankakee Memorial Gardens, Aroma Township. Memorials may be made to the Chalfant Family Scholarship at Olivet Nazarene University or to Provena St. Mary's Palliative Care Unit. He died Monday (May 10, 2010) at ManorCare Health Services.
Please sign his guestbook at clancygernon.com.
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I will miss Rev Chalfant - he was my neighbor and friend.
Attached is a picture I took of him for our most recent church directory.
-neb
D. Morris Chalfant, 89, a Nazarene minister and a columnist for The Daily Journal for more than a decade, died Monday at ManorCare Health Services in Kankakee.
Arrangements are pending at the Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home in west Kankakee.
From 1990 to 2001, Chalfant's columns appeared regularly in The Daily Journal. He frequently wrote on the history of holidays, while extolling the virtues of honesty, charity, work and prayer.
Chalfant was a star basketball player, who went on to pastor Nazarene churches in the Illinois towns of Havana and Eureka, as well as Bartlesville, Okla., and Seattle. He was also a missionary in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He remained active long after what many others would have considered retirement age. Well into his 70s, he would still conduct old-fashioned tent crusades. He was also the chaplain at Provena Heritage Village in the 1990s.
His wife, Yvonne Chalfant, and their son, Erik Chalfant, are among his survivors.
Chalfant Hall, the chapel on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University, is named for Morris Chalfant's father, E.O. Chalfant. E.O. Chalfant, who died in 1952, was an Olivet trustee for 37 years. Chalfant Hall was built in 1963.
Visitation for the Rev. D. Morris Chalfant, 89, of Kankakee, will be from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home, west Kankakee, and from 10 a.m. Monday at College Church of the Nazarene in Bourbonnais, until the 11 a.m. funeral service.
Burial will be in Kankakee Memorial Gardens, Aroma Township. Memorials may be made to the Chalfant Family Scholarship at Olivet Nazarene University or to Provena St. Mary's Palliative Care Unit. He died Monday (May 10, 2010) at ManorCare Health Services.
Please sign his guestbook at clancygernon.com.
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I will miss Rev Chalfant - he was my neighbor and friend.
Attached is a picture I took of him for our most recent church directory.
-neb