Emmetsburg ALC convention hosted by Bethel Lutheran
Bethel Lutheran of Graettinger hosted about 250 pastors delegates and auxiliary officers for the Emmetsburg ALC conference Sunday afternoon. Keynotes covered Project Equality, Strategy for Mission, Conference Realignment Proposal, and Lutheran Family and Child Service with discussions. Officers were elected, with Rev. Paul Ofstedal as chair, Neil Boyken as treasurer, and delegates named to national and district committees. A Pastors Institute followed a supper for pastors and wives as mild weather and April rainfall totals are noted.
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Bethel Lutheran of
Alvon Nelson
Palmer
Mason City
Eber Eldridge
Harvey Eldridge
Graettinger
ISU
Ames
Lutheran Family and Child Service
Clarence Brandt
Titonka
Paul Ofstedal
Lakota
Neil Boyken
Marian Johnson
Ruthven
Don Sarff
Armstrong
Ronald Fretheim
Everly
Walter Olson
Thompson
Everett Hagedorn
Royal
Stephen Engelstad
Estherville
Graettinger United Methodist Church
H. Babcock
Wallingford News and Dignitaries Report
Wallingford residents attend ALCW convention in Titonka and Emmetsburg. Beverly Nielsen visits Minneapolis for a job interview. David Swanson returns from Florida. Mrs. Peterson undergoes Rochester surgery. Kerwick dies in Emmetsburg with service in Emmetsburg and Rochester links. local moves planned as Fredericksenes relocate to Christine Hersleff home.
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Beverly Nielsen
Waldorf College
Forest City
Thor Nielsen
Minneapolis
David Swanson
Florida
Donald Peterson
Mason to Estherville chaplain change announced
Msgr. W F Mason, pastor of Assumption Catholic Church in Emmetsburg for over two years, will leave June 1 to serve as chaplain at Holy Family Hospital in Estherville. He will be 75 in July and marks 45 years as a priest June 6. No successor named yet. In Estherville he succeeds Rev. Charles Ernst, retiring. Also in Ames Iowa State Dean’s List Craig Dobbins, Agriculture Business student, made the 3.5+ GPA list with 15+ credit hours. son of Mr and Mrs Harry Dobbins.
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W. F. Mason
Assumption Catholic Church
Emmetsburg
Holy Family Hospital
Estherville
Msgr. Mason
Msgr
Mason
Charles Ernst
Ames
Iowa
Iowa State U
Craig Dobbins
Craig
Harry Dobbins
Taps service for Gowrie veteran Elmer O Peterson
Gowrie native Elmer O Peterson 73 longtime member of Gowrie American Legion post and bugler for over 50 years honored in Gowrie Taps service. Town of Graettinger quarterly financial statement released for quarter ending March 31 1970.
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Taps
Gowrie
Elmer O. Peterson
American Legion Post
Bug Jer
Town OF
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Vanessa Redgrave
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Graettinger Theatre
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St. Mary's Hospital
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Tacoma, Wash
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