Obituary of Paul Frederick Fendt

Paul Frederick Fendt Paul Fendt, 78, of Hillsborough, passed on Sunday, June 24th, 2012 at Duke Hospital in Durham, North Carolina in good care and the comfort of his family. Paul was born on July 4th, 1933, in Callicoon, New York, son of Fred and Edna Marie Muir Fendt. Paul was a younger brother to Ruth Marie Fendt Behnke. Paul graduated from Delaware Valley Central School (New York, 1952), Taylor University (B.A., Taylor Indiana, 1957), Duke Divinity School (M.Div., Durham North Carolina, 1962), and University of North Carolina (Ph.D., Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1976). Paul's career spanned many areas, predominantly adult education where he held several leadership positions, pastoral services including many recent years as a hospice chaplain, and even working as an auto mechanic to pay his own way through college. Paul loved to work with and help people no matter what he was doing, and has touched countless lives in countless ways. Paul is survived by wife Kaye Hamilton Fendt of Hillsborough, NC, son Karl Hamilton Fendt and wife Ashley of Stafford, VA, daughter Krista Marie Wixted and husband Doug of Durham, NC, grandchildren Ryland and Elyse, son Frederick Paul Fendt, daughter Mary K. Thomas and grandson Dylan, sister Ruth Marie Behnke and husband Don of Tuscon, AZ, and many blessed nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws. Memorial services are planned for Tuesday, June 26th, at 11 o'clock in the morning at New Sharon Methodist Church in Hillsborough, NC. Visitation with family and friends will immediately follow the service. In lieu of flowers, donations in Paul's name can be made to the Hospice Foundation of America (or your local Hospice), or the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. Paul was a kind and gentle man, who blessed and was blessed by many. Those that love him will miss him, but are comforted by the tremendous life he lived and his eternal resting place with God.