Pastor Karl Lent

Pastor Karl Lent, 71, of Lincoln, passed away on March 4, 2020.

Karl was born in Benicia, California and moved to Napa, California and graduated from Napa H.S. and Junior College in Napa and graduated from Sacramento State University.

He went to Seminary at Garrett Evangelical Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He did an intern year at Fairbury-Diller-Reynolds, Nebraska in 1972-73. He graduated in 1974 and was appointed to Davenport-Shickley, Bruning-Ong for three years.

In 1975, he was ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church. He moved to North Platte where he served as Associate Pastor for a year and met Katherine who was the secretary there. They married in May 1978 and a month later moved to Eustis and Farnam.

After that they served Callaway, Morning Star, Imperial, Lamar, Sidney, Fairbury, Hersey, Sutherland, Ashland-Memphis, Rising City-Brainard-Shelby, Dewitt-Pickerel, and retired in 2011 and served Plymouth-Daykin part-time and fully retired in 2017.

They moved to Lincoln and began worshipping at First United Methodist Church.

Karl is survived by his wife Katherine, nieces and nephews.

Funeral service was Tuesday, March 10, at 10:30 am at First United Methodist Church, 2723 N 50th St. in Lincoln

Memorials to First United Methodist Church. Butherus, Maser & Love Funeral Home will be handling the arrangements.

Online condolences can be left at www.bmlfh.com.