Bio: Ruhbusch, Rev. William H. (1983)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Ruhbusch, Krohn

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (4 February 1983)

Ruhbusch, Rev. William H.

The Rev. William H. Ruhbusch, 112 S. Pearl St. Spencer, who has been serving Trinity Lutheran Church, Spencer, since being installed February 5, 1967, was born June 11, 1932 at Gresham, attending Hohn School in elementary grades and graduating in 1950 from Gresham High School. After farming with his father for seven years, he entered Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, in September 1957. His vicarage was spent in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he established a new mission in the Glen Elm area, and served St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Indian Head, in vacancy. Since his graduation from the seminary in 1963, he served Zion Lutheran Church, Wolseley, and St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Indian Head, Saskatchewan, before locating in Spencer. He and the former LuAnn V. Krohn of Wausau were married in 1959. They have five children, John, Lori, David, Lisa, and Michael. He is serving on the Board of Finance of North Wisconsin District of the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod: pastoral adviser of the Lutheran Laymen's League, Zone 14; and a member and president of the Spencer Volunteer Fire Department.

(Attached to a printed sermon)