EDWARD KRYDER

The Rev. Edward Kryder, D.D. Episcopal Priest and Teacher Age 91, Dr. Kryder died at his home in Luther Acres on August 27th. Born in Akron, Ohio he was the son of the late Ralph Levi Kryder and Pearle Ardys Hemington Kryder and the husband for 68 years of Sally Larkin Kryder, who survives him. Dr. Kryder was educated at University School, Cleveland OH, and Princeton University (1942). During World War II he served as Supply Officer, Naval Section Base in Corpus Christi TX and in the Pacific theatre, with rank of Lieutenant as Supply Officer aboard the ship USS Firedrake, through the six-week invasion of Okinawa and then with the fleet en route to Tokyo just before the surrender of Japan. After five post-war years as Secretary-Treasurer of an aluminum plant near Buffalo, he pursued the degree of M.Div. at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria VA. Ordained deacon in 1953 and priest the following year, he served country congregations in Newfane and Wilson NY five years before leading Calvary Church, Williamsville NY (Buffalo) as rector from 1958-1985. Virginia Seminary in 1975 had awarded him the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa where, after he resigned as rector of Calvary, he relished 21 years teaching as full-time adjunct professor. During all of his ordained ministry he worked hard - using liturgical theology, teaching, preaching, pastoring, mentoring and leadership in the diocese, in the national church, and in the wider community - to inspire everyone’s active participation in the mission of the Kingdom to the poor in spirit and in body and in mind. Loving and beloved patriarch of his extended family he was also an avid genealogist, researching and publishing a two-volume History of the Kryder Family: eight generations in and around the Canton of Bern, Switzerland and Colmar, France; ten generations in this country. Survivors include five children, Katrina Kryder Ford, Aurora CO; David Larkin Kryder (Joy), Valley WA; The Rev. Thomas Marshall Kryder-Reid (Elizabeth), Indianapolis IN; John Benson Kryder (Dori Marshall), Buffalo NY; and Anne Kryder Almy-Webber (Benton Webber), Lancaster PA; fourteen grandchildren, six step-grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. The Office of Burial of the Dead with Holy Communion will take place in St. James Episcopal Church, Lancaster, PA, 119 N. Duke St, Lancaster, PA on Thursday, September 15th at 2 pm, with the Rev. David Peck, Rector, presiding and the Rev. Thomas Kryder-Reid, co-presiding. Dr. Kryder's ashes will be buried in Calvary Churchyard, 20 Milton St, Calvary Church, Williamsville, NY on Saturday, September 17th at 5 pm. There will be no calling hours. The family will greet friends at a reception following each of the services. Please, no flowers. If desired, contributions would be gratefully appreciated to Hospice of Lancaster County, PO Box 4125, Lancaster PA 17604-4125; or St. James Episcopal Church, 119 N. Duke St, Lancaster PA 17602; or Virginia Theological Seminary, 3737 Seminary Road, Alexandria VA 22304. Online condolences can be posted to The Groffs Family Funeral Home, 528 W. Orange St, Lancaster PA 17603, www.thegroffs.com, and obits can be requested from that website.

EDWARD KRYDER

August 28, 2011