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Ralph Norbert Baur
Pastor Ralph N. Baur

Short Biography

  • [[Category:1922] - FebBorn:Feb 01, 1922 in the parsonage at Cedar Mills, MN. 
Married:?

1922

  • Ralph was born to Pastor Alfred and Clara (Hinderer) Baur on February 1, 1922, in the parsonage at Cedar Mills.
  • 1922 - He was baptized on February 16, 1922 in the parsonage by his father.
  • 1936 - and was confirmed by The Reverend Hinnenthal on April 5, 1936.

1936

  • He attended St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran School in New Ulm
  • Confirmed by The Reverend Hinnenthal on April 5, 1936
  • DMLC High School

1937

  • DMLC High School

1938

  • DMLC High School

1939-1938

1940

1941-1942

  • Attended NWC
  • Complains of eye problems Sept 12.

1942-1943 

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1943-1944

  • Attended NWC

1944-1945

1945-1946 

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1946-1947 

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1947-1948

1948

1950

1951

1952

1955

1957

  • Salem school opened. The second one in the PNW District.
  • Connie Stanfield, DMLC grad of that year, is the first teacher.
  • Mrs. Olive Heiden in charge of kindergarten.
  • 15 students in grades and 5 in kindergarten.
  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.

1958

  • Hans and Charlotte Johansen teachers in School with 32 students.
  • Ralph also served on District Board of Education.
  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.

1959

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.

1961

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.
  • School without a teacher. Ralph and Lyla Jaus teach school.

1962

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.
  • David Farstad, new DMLC grad, comes to Salem.

1963

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.

1964

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.

1965

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.
  • Construction on Edmonds, WA parsonage begun.

1966

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.
  • Moves into Edmonds parsonage in Febuary.

1967

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.
  • Ground breaking for new church in May 14th.Took two years, 5 months to build church.

1968

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.
  • First service held in Salem's new parish hall. December 24th.

1969

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.
  • Dedication of new Salem church building October 5th.

1970

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.

1971

  • Member of the Pacific Northwest Mission Board.

1972

  • Became chairman of the District Mission Board.
  • July - 25th anniversary in the Ministry (was at Salem Lutheran Church, Edmonds, WA)
  • Broken Bow celebrates 50th anniversary.

1973

  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.

1974

  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.

1975

  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.

1976

1977

1978

  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.
  • Two new classrooms built in the church's daylight basement.

1979

  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.
  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.

1980

  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.
  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.

1981

  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.
  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.

1982

  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.
  • Chairman of the District Mission Board.

1988

1989

1990

1991

  • Call extended by Courtland and Zion April 14th.
  • Accepts Call April 28th.
  • Installation services June 9th.

1996

  • September 29th, 75th Anniversary of Courtland Lutheran Church.

1999

  • July 11th, Zion Lutheran Church centennial service.
October 29th, Stained glass "luther Coat of Arms" window dedicated at Courtland.

2002

  • May, Announces plans to retire when a pastor accepts a Call
  • Celebrates 55 years in the ministry.

2011

February 01, 1922 - June 03, 2011

Notes from Lyla Jaus:

  • Funerals were the high light of his ministry, since the joys of heaven are being experienced by those he learned to love, even though he feels the great bereavment by those left behind, but in turn can also remind them of the love of our Savior.
  • Marvel Jaus would not wait for Ralph to graduate from school, so Ralph had to take the younger sister.
  • Ralph ate gruetzwurst along with everyone else during our courtship and it was only after we were married a while that I found out he really didn't care for it at all.
  • Mrs. Aufderheide Sr. made the remark a few years ago that she doesn't think Ralph could have done any better in finding a wife. To this day he doesn't really doesn't know which way to interpret it -- whether it was his inabilities, or that she thought he did a good job.
  • Only way Ralph remembers which year we were married is by figuring our what kind of car he was driving.
  • Ralph's hobby is making sausage and cutting meat.


  • 2011 - Burial will follow in St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery in New Ulm. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Monday and will continue from 7:30-8 a.m Tuesday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm and from 9:30 – 11 a.m. on Tuesday at church.

Retirement

Retired to New Ulm, MN

Obituaries


After eight years, he accepted the Call to serve as pastor of Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, located in a suburb of Seattle, Washington. It was there he served until his retirement in 1988.

Upon retirement, he moved to New Ulm and served the parishes of Shepherd of the Lakes Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fairmont, the dual parish of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brighton Township and Courtland Evangelical Lutheran Church in Courtland, until 2002.

Pastor Baur served 55 years in the ministry of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

In June of 1951, he married Lyla Jaus at St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Moltke Township,MN.

Occupation(s)

  • Pastor

Other

Memories

Claire Baur <ref> Claire Baur Doelger Collection</ref>

Dad's white legs. :) I don't remember seeing Dad ever in a swimsuit.



Pictured... Claire Doelger, Lyla Baur, Christa Poole and Owen, Bethany Kirking and Liam, Ralph Baur.

Here is a 4 generation picture from 2010. Dad, Ralph Baur, had a stroke prior to this visit. I still to this day do not believe he knew who I was. When I asked him he said in his kidding and protective way, of course I know who you are. We took Dad out to his old churches, the farm, his parents grave site, see his house from the outside where he grew up, and we were able to go inside some of the churches. Mom would remember maybe of the names and towns. I was so surprised that the churches were not locked up that was common I was told.

The Hirsch Family

by Jim Baur

My Dad's first Call was to Merna/Broken Bow, NE. The Hirsch family "adopted" the young pastor. Dad spent a lot of time on the Hirsch farm. Some of you might remember Prof. Eldon (Mike) Hirsch from your days at MLA in New Ulm. As I remember the story, Dad didn't have any shoes without holes in the soles. Arthur felt that it just wouldn't do for the preacher to get married in those shoes and lent Dad a good pair of dress shoes for the occasion. One of Eldon's favorite sayings was "Pastor Baur took me out of the farm field into the Lord's field." Dad interested Elton in attending MLA. The small NE church didn't have an organist. Elton was willing to learn, but the school wouldn't let him take organ because he was in high school, not college. Dad made a special request that Elton be allowed to take organ, which was granted. I have some pictures of Elton out at the Jaus farm and could never figure out how that relationship developed. Now I wonder if the Jaus family provided a "home away from home" for Eldon. Was it because Grandma and Lydia Jaus Scheele were friends? Is it possible that Eldon knew Putz Scheele? Eldon was born in 1932. Did he know Mom "way back then?" The Hirsch family was a life long friendship for Dad. He always spoke fondly of them. Eldon played the organ for Dad's funeral.


'From Lyla Jaus Baur'


Last Wed. went to a funeral and Prof Hirsch was there so visited with him for a bit. When the sons of June Ring returned the recliner/lift chair they had borrowed for their Mom, the one said that Hirsch had written a Hirsch family history for his kids. Spoke about that to Eldon and hope I get to read it some time. Guess he had only enuf printed for his family....and he said in very small print so it would be cheaper to print fewer pages.


He mentioned that he remembers that Dad's first Christmas in NE...1947...he took Eldon and his brother up to DMLC for the Concert and how very impressed he was with that beautiful music. That played a role in his enrolling for his Sr. year for the next school year.

When I was a student, I remember seeing this HS student practicing organ in the music hall and asked the person in charge how come this Sr. in the high school dept. could be taking organ, and was told that his pastor in Nebraska had asked for special permission to have him take organ lessons since he was the organist for his NE church. Who would have thought at the time that his pastor would be my husband within several years.

Eldon related to me about their visit to see us in WA and how everything was organized, including going clamming. His kids pulled and pulled on a clam neck so those must have been some Puget Sound clams. He said I made clam chowder and that we had a large dining table etc. etc. etc. Was interesting.

Ronald Baur - Dad would help me work on my car and drip cigar juice on my face as he looked under the hood and I was lying on floor under the engine looking up...yum... And all this between farting at random and not caring.



Notes

Memories

Obituaries

Pastor Ralph N. Baur, 89, of New Ulm was called by Jesus to heaven on Friday, June 3, 2011, while at home surrounded by family. <ref> http://www.mvfh.org/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=1176563New&fh_id=13603</ref>

Funeral service will be 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Ulm, MN in New Ulm with Pastor Thomas Henning, New Ulm; Pastor David Bode, Appleton, Wisconsin; Pastor Don Sutton, New Ulm, all colleagues, serving as the officiants. Burial will follow in St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery in New Ulm. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Monday and will continue from 7:30-8 a.m Tuesday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm and from 9:30 – 11 a.m. on Tuesday at church.

Ralph is survived by his beloved wife of 59 years, Lyla Jaus Baur of New Ulm; children, Kathryn Baur ( Paul Scharrer) of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Martin Baur (Sharon Cain) of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin; Alan Baur (Stefani Smith) of Lander, Wyoming; James Baur (Terri Amos) of Brillion, Wisconsin; [[Claire Doelger|Claire Baur (David Doelger) of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin; Paul Baur (Julie Blastic) of DeFuniak Springs, Florida; Ronald Baur ([[Kristin|Kristine ???) of Prior Lake; 32 grandchildren; and by 19 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his father, Pastor Alfred Baur in 1927; mother, Clara HInderer in 1982; grandson, Michael Baur in 2005; maternal grandparents, Pastor and Klara Schnieder Paul Hinderer; and by paternal grandparents, Pastor and Emilie Summerfeld Jacob Baur.

Ralph was born to Pastor Alfred and Clara (Hinderer) Baur on February 1, 1922, in the parsonage at Cedar Mills. He was baptized on February 16, 1922 in the parsonage by his father. He attended St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran School in New Ulm and was confirmed by The Reverend Hinnenthal on April 5, 1936. He attended the high school department of DMLC; Northwestern College, Watertown, WI in Watertown, Wisconsin; and Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, Wisconsin. He graduated in 1947 and was assigned to the congregations in Merna and Broken Bow, Nebraska. After eight years, he accepted the Call to serve as pastor of Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, located in a suburb of Seattle, Washington. It was there he served until his retirement in 1988. Upon retirement, he moved to New Ulm and served the parishes of Shepherd of the Lakes Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fairmont, the dual parish of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brighton Township and Courtland Evangelical Lutheran Church in Courtland, until 2002. Pastor Baur served 55 years in the ministry of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

In June of 1951, he married Lyla Jaus at St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Moltke Township,MN. This union remained strong until his passing. They were blessed with seven children. Ralph was a loving husband and a wonderful father and grandfather. In addition to his dedication to mission work, he shared his love for creation with his family as they camped and enjoyed mountains and oceans of the Pacific Northwest. He taught his family to tinker, build, repair and enjoyed building projects and renovations. His interest in stained glass produced pieces that grace his former congregations further proclaiming the Word of God.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to WELS Home Missions or the donor's choice





Related Links

Ralph Baur Black Photo Album/Baby Ralph

References <references/> Family Histories: Harms -- Jaus -- Lieske -- Hinderer -- Baur --

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