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Rev. Donn Doten dies,
bueried Mrs. Gandhi
by George Bullard

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cws Stuff Writer

For the Rev. Donn P. Doten, servife in the United Methodist Church
included decades of duty in his nat:ive Michigan - interspersed with
i~te rnationa l assignments that indluded preaching in the upper
I'J:laches of the Amazon Hiver a nd
ijtterviewing Indira Gandhi, prime
tjtinister of India.
' And, to top it off, Mr. Doten in
L'96H struck a new tangent - wit h
j)>urnalism studies at the University
(!t• Michigan - an interest that led to
.llis being named editor of the Michi!(an Christian Advocate, the denomi!Jation's statewide weekly newspaper
uased in Adrian.
J Mr. Doten, 6:3, died Wednesday in
St. Joseph Hospital in Ann Arbor
Jt"ter a long illness.
lA.,pative of Gaylord, he was licensed to preach in t 9:38, ordained in
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congregations in Michigan. He also
went on overseas assignments, ineluding an assessment of the problems of Bangladesh with a n interdenominational committee. While in
India, the assignment led him to a n
interview with Mrs. Ghandi in the
garden of her home.
In t980, he was named editor of
the Advocate, a stewardship marked
by a mix of loca! a n-4, nat ione.l news
and features. It is a Cle~m newspaper
style, unlike other denomination
publications that read more like
church bull('tin boards than newspapers.
Mr. Doten is survived by his wife,
Dorothy; his father, the Rev. Alvin
Doten; a daughter, Dianne Lee
Morrison; a son, Donn Dale; and two
,
grandchildren.
Memorial sevices wili be held at 5
p.m. May 2 in University United
Methodist Church in East Lansing.