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CHICAGO – Memorials have been planned to celebrate the life of the Rev. Robert J. Marshall, biblical scholar and president of the former Lutheran Church in America (LCA), who died Dec. 22 in Allentown, Pa. He was 90. A funeral was held Jan. 3 in Burlington, Iowa. In 1962 Marshall was elected president of the LCA Illinois Synod, and six years later he was elected president of the LCA. During his decade as LCA president, groundwork was set for that church's merger with the American Lutheran Church and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in 1987 to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The memorials will be held in three campus chapels of the ELCA: + Feb. 22, 4 p.m., Christ Chapel, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, S.C. The Rev. Edgar R. Trexler, former editor of "The Lutheran" and a trustee of the seminary, will preach. The Rev. Herman R. Yoos III, bishop, ELCA South Carolina Synod, will preside. + Feb. 28, 11 a.m., Egner Chapel, Muhlenberg College, Allentown. The Rev. Harold S. Weiss, former bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod, will preach. The Rev. Samuel R. Zeiser, bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod, will preside and the Rev. E. Roy Riley, bishop of the ELCA New Jersey Synod, will assist. + March 8, 2 p.m., Augustana Chapel, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC). The Rev. H. George Anderson, former presiding bishop of the ELCA, will preach. The Rev. James Kenneth Echols, LSTC president, will preside. In 1947 Marshall joined the faculty of Muhlenberg College as an instructor in religion. He became head of the religion department in 1952. From 1953 to 1962 he was a professor of Old Testament at Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary (now LSTC). From 1981 to 1988 Marshall was professor of Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary before returning to LSTC as an adjunct professor of Old Testament. Marshall also served LSTC as senior scholar in residence and director for its Center for Global Ministries. The family requests that memorial gifts be sent to the Robert J. Marshall Graduate Fellowship at LSTC. An obituary for the Rev. Robert J. Marshall is at http://archive.ELCA.org/news/releases.asp?a=4011, on the ELCA Web site. |
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