Rev. Robert K. Shaull

Easton: The Reverend Robert K. Shaull, Easton, MD, passed away Sunday, January 11th, 2015 following a brief hospitalization. He was 88 years old. Pastor Shaull retired in 1988 after having served as pastor in Arendtsville, Catawissa, Lebanon and York, Pa before moving to his final congregations on the Maryland Easton Shore serving St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Cordova and The Talbot Lutheran Parish of Easton until his retirement. Reverend Shaull was active in the Veterans of Foreign War. He volunteered to serve in the U. S. Army Air Corp his senior year in high school at West Fairview, Pa. and arrived in Hiroshima, Japan in April,1945. Shaull was born in 1926 in Harrisburg, PA. Before entering the ordained ministry, he served in the U.S. Army Air Force and followed that with a three year apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker and pipe fitter on steam locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1952, he graduated from the Shippensburg State Teachers College and enrolled as a ministerial candidate in the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, PA. He was ordained in 1955 following a two year term as vicar at Christ Lutheran Church, Harrisburg. Rev. Shaull married Joyce Heckenluber in 1958 and together they raised two daughters, Jen and Judy. Aside from his ministerial duties, he served as dean of the Lebanon District, and as a member of the Evangelism Committee of the Central Pennsylvania Synod. His congregation in York was a participant in the seminary’s intern program in which seminary students were trained in hands-on ministry. He served a term as chaplain for the Pennsylvania State Senate, conducted a weekly radio ministry for 11 years and was a voting delegate to two national conventions of the Lutheran Church. He enjoyed a lifetime of playing golf and getting together with family and friends. Reverend Shaull is survived by his daughters Jen Shaull and spouse Elizabeth Erhardt of San Francisco, CA and Judy Riley and husband Pete Riley of Frederick, Md. and beloved granddaughters Hannah, Erin and Jade. His daughters and granddaughters, as well as long-term companion, Mary Vaughan and residents of his community in Easton, MD, will sorely miss him. Family and friends are invited to celebrate the life of Robert K. Shaull at the VFW Post 5118, 355 Glebe Road, Easton, MD, 1:00 pm Sunday, January 18, 2015.

Rev. Robert K. Shaull

October 24, 1926 - January 11, 2015