Rev. H. Philip Steinmetz ’30

The Rev. Philip Humason Steinmetz of Marietta, Ga., died Mar. 15, 1997. He was 87.

He was born in Cape May, N.J., Aug. 3, 1909, the son of the Rev. Dr. Philip J. and Clara (Humason) Steinmetz. He graduated in 1926 from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, from Princeton University in 1930, and from the General Theological Seminary in NYC in 1934.

Steinmetz married the former Esther Dixwell Brewer of Bridgeport, Conn., in 1934. She died in 1989. He married Marion Willis Brock of Marietta in 1994.

He first served as an assistant to his father in St. Paul's Church in Elkins Park, Pa., and then as rector of St. Paul's Church and its associated missions in Montrose, Pa. In 1945 he became vicar of St. John's Church and pastor of the Congregational church in Ashfield. He became the associate to the general secretary of the Massachusetts Council of Churches in Boston in 1957. He returned to parish work as pastor of the Ashfield Conway Ecumenical Parish in 1969, retiring in 1973.

Steinmetz worked in various offices with the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, the Alliance for Mental Illness, and the Ashfield Conservation Commission. Survivors include his wife, two daughters, a son, a stepdaughter, seven grandchildren, nine greatgrandchildren, and four step-grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family.

The Class of 1930