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Roland Scheele

March 30, 1912 -- July 3, 1974

Services

SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1974 -- 10:30 A.M. St. John's Lutheran Church

New Ulm, Minnesota

Officiants

• Organist: Professor Brue R. Backer
• Liturgist:Rev. Frederic H. Nitz
• Preacher:Rev. David E. Koeplin

Organ Prelude

Invocation

Scripture Readings............Psalm 46 Isaiah 54:713 II Timothy 4:6-8

Congregation Hymn, No. 598......."Who Knows When Death May Overtake Me"

Sermon -- Text: I Samuel 3:18 Theme: "Nothing But the Best"

Congregation Hymn, No. 200 .......... "I Know That My Redeemer Lives"

Prayer: Lord's Prayer

Benediction

Interment

LUTHERAN CEMETERY

Pallbearers

• Roman Jaus
• Harvey Meyer
• Elton Vorwerk
• William Arras
• Erich Sievert
• Roland Hoenecke

APPRECIATION'

The Scheele family wishes to express their gratitude for your kindnesses evidenced in thought and deed, and for your attendance at the funeral service.

Pastor R. W. Scheele

Life and Activity

Though Pastor Roland W. Scheele spent most of his time and ministry in Michigan and Ohio, he is actually a native of Minnesota. He was born on March 30, 1912, in Wood Lake, Minnesota, the son of Edward Scheele and Lydia Jaus Scheele. Pastor Scheele received his elementary education in the Chistian Day School at St. Peter's Lutheran Church near Gibbon. His theological training began at the High School Department of Dr. Martin Lutheran College at New Ulm and continued at Concordia College at St. Paul. He graduated from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Thiensville, Wisconsin, in 1935.

His first charge was at Tecumseh, Mich., where he established and built Grace lutheran Church and served it until 1943. From there he and his family moved to Ann Arbor, Mich. While there he served the Michigan District of the Wisconsin Synod as Missionary-at-large establishing churches at Dexter, Ann Arbor, East Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Morenci, Detroit and Durand. In 1946, he began his ministry at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Manistee, Mich., and from there he was called to Zion Lutheran Church at Toledo, Ohio, where during the ten years of his pastorate an entire relocation project of church and school was completed. From 1960 to 1969 he served Good Shepherd Lutheran Church at Flint, Mich., building and establishing a Christian Day School there. He moved to Hutchinson in 1970 from Arlington, Minn., where he had been assisting at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. In 1974, he retired from Grace Lutheran Church in Hutchinson.

On August 1, 1936 , he was united in marriage to Violoa Wandersee. This union was blessed with four children. (Katherine) Mrs. Neil Turnbull of Milwaukee, Wisc., Rev. Martin Scheele of CO|Denver, Colo., (Esther) Mrs. Jerome Wolff of Wood Lake, and (Lois) Mrs. Warren Hartman of Saginaw, Mich. Also surviving are eight grandchildren, besides other relatives and friends. He entered the joy of the Lord whom he served on July 3, 1974.

Area Deaths

REV. ROLAND SCHEELE

Funeral services for a former New Ulm resident, Rev. Roland Scheele. 62, were held Saturday morning at St. John's Lutheran Chruch with burial in the Lutheran cemetery.

Peterson Bros. Funeral Home of Willmar handled the arrangements. Rev. Scheele, retired, died at his lake home at rural New London Wednesday.

source:Myrtle Jaus Meyer collection.