Bio: Rasch, Rev. Arthur – Honored at Retirement (May 1973)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Rasch, Ruhbusch, Reinke, Jordan, Blind

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 31 May 1973

Rev. Arthur Rasch, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, North Green Grove, and St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Unity Township, was honored at a farewell-retirement party Sunday, May 27, 1973.

Rev. Wm. Ruhbusch was the guest speaker for the occasion. Rev. and Mrs. Rasch received many gifts from the members and organizations of the two churches. Rev. Rasch was married to the former Marie Reinke on June 16, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed his ministry training that same year, and in November of that year they went to India as missionaries, where they remained for 27 years.

Rev. Rasch also served congregations in Friedheim, Missouri (seven and one-half year), Mead Kansas (four and one-half years), and the last seven and one-half years at his present position.

The Rasches are the parents of nine children, three of whom are deceased. Paul died in India, Arthur in Kansas and Mary in St. Louis. Remaining children are twins, Rev. Walter Rasch, a missionary in Ogoja, Nigeria, and Wm. Rasch, a teacher and organist in Grenada Hill, California; Robert, St. Louis, Missouri; Mrs. Fred (Linda) Jordan, Corning, New York; Mrs. James (Virginia) Blind, St. Louis; and Miss Audrey Rasch, a nurse anesthetist at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital….(the rest of my article was cut off).