“Eh muna da gabagaɗi, kuma mun gwammace mu rabu da jiki mu zauna tare da Ubangiji. Don haka ko muna gida ko a waje, muna sa burinmu mu faranta masa rai.” (2 Korinthiyawa 5:8-9)
Dokta William Robert Eberly, mai shekaru 84, ya rasu a ranar 28 ga Yuli, 2011, a gidansa na bazara a tafkin Big Chapman, Warsaw, Ind. Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai gudanarwa na Cocin Brothers a 1980 kuma a matsayin sakataren taron shekara-shekara daga 1968 zuwa 1977. Ya kuma yi hidima a matsayin memba na Babban Hukumar ‘Yan’uwa daga shekara ta 1995 zuwa 2000, kuma a matsayin memba na kwamitin gudanarwa na Brethren Encyclopedia daga 1985 zuwa 2008. Ya zama mai hidima a Cocin ’yan’uwa, ya yi hidima a ikilisiyoyi da yawa. , ciki har da Pleasant View Church of the Brothers a South Whitley, Ind., Roann (Ind.) Church of the Brothers, da Buffalo (Ind.) Church of the Brothers. Ya kasance memba na Cocin Manchester na Brothers, North Manchester, Ind.
An haifi Eberly a Arewacin Manchester Oktoba 4, 1926 ga John H. da Ollie (Heaston) Eberly, kuma ya auri Eloise Whitehead a 1946. Bayan samun digirinsa na farko daga Kwalejin Manchester a 1948, ya koyar da kiɗa da kimiyya a makarantun gwamnati har biyar. shekaru. Ya samu digirinsa na biyu da kuma Ph.D. daga Jami'ar Indiana kuma a cikin 1955 ya shiga jami'ar Manchester College a matsayin farfesa a sashen nazarin halittu. A cikin 1963 an gayyace shi a matsayin masanin kimiyya mai ziyara zuwa Cibiyar Limnology a Jami'ar Uppsala a Sweden.
Eberly ya yi aiki a matsayin tsohon shugaban Kwalejin Kimiyya na Indiana. Ya fara shirin Nazarin Muhalli a Kwalejin Manchester a 1972 kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin darekta har zuwa lokacin da ya yi ritaya a 1992. Ya yi aiki a hukumar nazarin magungunan kashe qwari ta Indiana mai wakiltar limnologists na Jihar Indiana kuma ya karɓi Sagamore na lambar yabo ta Wabash daga Gov. Robert Orr. a cikin 1983 don ƙaƙƙarfan shawarwarinsa game da matsalolin muhalli. Shi ne kuma tsohon malami a tarihin coci don Bethany Seminary. Sha'awarsa ga asali, tarihi, da bincike ya kai shi ga marubuci kuma ya gyara littattafai da yawa, kwanan nan Labarin Kimiyyar Halitta a Kwalejin Manchester.
Mai himma a cikin al'ummarsa, ya kasance tsohon shugaban kungiyar Tarihi ta Arewacin Manchester, inda ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen haɓakawa da faɗaɗa Cibiyar Tarihi akan Babban Titin.
Za a gudanar da taron tunawa da ranar 14 ga Agusta da karfe 3:00 na yamma a cocin Manchester Church of the Brothers. Ana iya ba da gudummawar tunawa ga Dr. William R. Eberly Scholarship Fund a Kwalejin Manchester, Cibiyar Tarihi a Arewacin Manchester, Heifer International, ko Timbercrest Senior Living Community Charitable Assistance Fund.