Obituary: Glenn Richard Bucher

Glenn Richard Bucher, 79, died at Landis Homes in Lititz, Pennsylvania, June 26, 2019.

He graduated from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, then went on to Union Theological Seminary in New York to earn a Master of Divinity. He then completed a Ph.D. at Boston University. As a professor and administrator, he worked with students and faculty at the School of Religion at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and at the College of Wooster in Ohio. He also worked as dean of Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia and as the president of the Graduate Theological Union in California. After 2000, he directed the Boyer Center at Messiah College and was assistant to President Long of Elizabethtown College. Bucher finished his career as an adjunct professor at Villanova University.

Glenn is survived by his wife of 56 years, Mary K. Bucher, his two children, Christina and Timothy, and his three grandchildren, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Jackson; his brother, Larry L. Bucher, and several extended family members.