Bio: Jaster, Herbert - Prof. (Celebrates 25 years - 1981)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Jaster, Schiller, Lowe

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 5/07/1981

Jaster, Prof. Herbert, Celebrates 25 Years (1981)

Prof. Herbert Jaster, a former Neillsville resident, observed his 25th anniversary of his installation and ordination into the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Wisconsin synod on April 26.

The Jaster family moved to Neillsville in 1935 where his father, Arthur Jaster, was employed by the Schiller Funeral Home and later by the Lowe Funeral Home until in January of 1939 when he opened his own business. The Jaster family moved from Neillsville after the death of Arthur Jaster in 1945.

Upon graduation from Northwestern College, Watertown, in 1952 and the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, in 1955, Prof. Jaster served the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of La Crosse, where he was ordained. In 1958, Prof. Jaster and his mother, Martha Jaster, moved to Doylestown, where he served three congregations of the Tri-Parish.

In 1961, he received a call to teach history and religion at Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota. When the school separated into two facilities, Prof. Jaster became a member of the Martin Luther Academy faculty in 1963 and has served as its secretary since that time.

In 1978, Wisconsin Synod Lutheran purchased the former Campion School of Prairie du Chien and in 1979 Prof. Jaster and his mother moved to Prairie du Chien where he continues to carry out his duties as librarian and professor.

The silver jubilee of his ordination was observed with a special service of thanksgiving held in the school chapel in Prairie du Chien on Sunday evening, April 26.