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The Rev. Richard Edward Ploth, 81, Recently Of Dover Plains
PAWLING, N.Y. – The Rev. Richard Edward Ploth, a retired minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA, and recently of Dover Plains, died Sunday, Sept. 20 from complications following a stroke. He was 81.
Ploth had been a resident of The Grand Nursing Home in Pawling the past two months.
Ploth “Dick” was born Oct. 6, 1933, in Oceanside, to Edward B. and Adelaide Combs Ploth.
He graduated from Oceanside High School in 1951, and then earned a bachelor’s degree in Latin and Hebrew from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., followed by a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. …