Rev. Doran Allen Garey

Rev. Doran Allen Garey, age 88, of Sebring, passed away Thursday, September 12, 2019 at Alliance Community Hospital.  He was born October 13, 1930 in Zanesville, Ohio, to Edgar Darlington and Florence (Selby) Garey.

Doran graduated from Byesville High School, Muskingum College (class of 1952), and Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey in 1957.  While in seminary, he served for an extra year to take seminar at Greystone Mental Memorial Hospital in Morris Plains, New Jersey.

He was a certified counselor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and Director of the Cleveland Pastoral Counseling Service of the United Methodist Church.  Doran also served on the Red Cross Board in Cambridge, the Boy Scout Council in Alliance and Habitat for Humanity in Bucyrus.

Survivors include his wife, Jeannette (Wiley) Garey, whom he married July 25, 1952; daughter, Frederica Elizabeth “Beth” (William) Barone; son, Jay A. (Tammie) Garey; sisters-in-law, Fritz Wolfe and Anne Mahaffey; and many nieces and nephews.

Year of Muskingum Undergraduate Degree
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