R. W. Schambach Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Personal life== Schambach's wife was Mary Winifred Donald (born September 3, 1926, in [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania). R.W. met Mary while she was a student at the Eastern Bible Institute of the Assemblies of God in [[Green Lane, Pennsylvania]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obituaries.tylerpaper.com/obituaries/tylerpaper/obituary.aspx?pid=155553322|title=Obituary|publisher=Obituaries.Tylerpaper.com| date=20 January 2012| accessdate=30 June 2016}}</ref> (now the [[University of Valley Forge]] in [[Phoenixville, Pennsylvania]]). They married the following year, on September 4, 1948 (just one day after Mary's birthday). The couple subsequently had two sons and a daughter: Bobby, Bruce and Donna. [[Donna Schambach]] is a pastor and Word of Faith minister in the Tyler area. Schambach had six grandchildren: Rachel, Bobby III, Mark, Amanda and Christi. They had been married for 61 years when Mary died from natural causes in [[Tyler, Texas]] on April 20, 2010, at age 83. Less than two years later he died of a heart attack on January 17, 2012, age 85.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/January/Evangelist-RW-Shambach-Dead-at-85-/ |title=International Evangelist R.W. Shambach Dies - US - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com |access-date=2012-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121051521/http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/January/Evangelist-RW-Shambach-Dead-at-85-/ |archive-date=2012-01-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Roberson |first=Amanda |url=http://www.cbs19.tv/story/16545641/tyler-based-evangilist-rw-shambach-dies |title=Tyler-based evangelist, R. W. Schambach, dies - KYTX CBS 19 Tyler Longview News Weather Sports |publisher=Cbs19.tv |date= |accessdate=19 January 2012}}</ref> He was interred next to his wife at the Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery in Tyler, Texas.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://obituaries.tylerpaper.com/obituaries/tylerpaper/obituary.aspx?pid=155553322|title=Obituaries|publisher=Legacy.com|date=20 January 2012|accessdate=March 2, 2016}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page