MYERS

ALBERT E.

Albert Edwin Myers died May 22, 2026, on Naomi A. Paullin's birthday (first wife) in Fort Myers, FL. He was pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Pleasant Hills, 1966-1974, and a leader in denominational and ecumenical activity. He helped organize Christian Associates of Southwest PA and served three terms as a Trustee of Thiel College, Greenville.

He was born Sept. 18, 1931, in Akron, OH to Forrest D. Myers and Marian H. Conner. Albert attended Swarthmore College, The University of Akron, Wittenberg University, Hamma Divinity School, Oberlin College Graduate School of Theology and held the D.Min. degree from Vanderbilt University. He was a Lutheran minister, also serving in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Ashland Co., OH, Cheyenne, WY, and Richmond Hill, Ontario. He was also an honorary Canon in the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Stephen in Harrisburg. He served for nearly 24 years as Executive Director of the PA Council of Churches, a ministry of 48 church bodies in PA, often serving as interim or supply pastor in churches through central PA. With his first wife, Naomi A. Paullin, he had four children; they survive him: Paul T. Myers, Kathy I. Jones, Deborah H. Rice and Forrest C. Myers. He is also survived by grandchildren Thomas J. Cantlin, Heather A. Jones, Jordan P. Myers, Kelsey F. Myers, Alden J. Myers, Gray C. Myers, Callie A. Myers, Camden A. Myers and great-grandchildren Xavier L. Jones, Arwen A. Faucett, Camryn W. Rice, Jr., Thomas J. Cantlin, Silas B. Rutkowski. He is survived by his siblings: Lucy J. Webster and Vivian M. Harig. Widowed, he married in 2000 Patricia A. Piper who survives him in their retirement home, Shell Point Retirement Community, near Sanibel Island in SW Florida. He was a member of Peace Lutheran Church near Fort Myers but often attended his wife's church, Chapel by the Sea, on Estero Island. Albert was a member and sometime officer in the Caloosa Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Henry Samson Colony of the FL Society of Mayflower Descendants and served as Elder (chaplain) of the FL Society. He was a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Castine (ME) Scientific Society, the Castine (ME) Historical Society, the Penobscot (ME) Historical Society, the Perry County (PA) Historians, the Somerset Chapter of Magna Charta Barons and the Order of the Founders of North America, and joined the First Families of Ohio. He served on many boards, including Thiel College, PA Citizen Service Project, Harrisburg State Hospital, National Council of Churches, Intercultural Family Services (Philadelphia) and the PA Bible Society. He published five books and wrote numerous articles, and hosted and spoke on radio and TV programs in Toronto, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. His hobbies included travel, family and local history and active participation in several discussion groups and clubs in Shell Point. In retirement he spent part of each summer in the family home in Castine, ME, where his ancestors settled 250 years ago.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in memory of Albert E. Myers to:

Penobscot Historical Society

88 North Penobscot Road

Penobscot, ME 04476

https://www.facebook.com/PenobscotHistoricalSociety/

or

National Audubon Society

ATTN: Donations

225 Varick Street, 7th Floor

New York, NY 10014

https://www.audubon.org/