The Reverend Dr. Richard Leverne Niswonger, 86, of Go Ye Village in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, formerly of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and better known as Dick, died March 7, 2018. We were informed by the US Postal Service March 30, 2023. Dick was a member without charge of Arkansas Presbytery.

Dick was born November 3, 1931, in Rittman, Ohio. He served as a member of Porter Presbytery and was a history professor at John Brown University for more than 30 years.