This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GERKEN, BENNIS, PLATT, HUNTER, TEMME, MAYER, DOELLINGER, KLEPPER, FOELBER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/2103 Message Board Post: Rev. Theodore P. GERKEN - July 10, 1914 - Nov. 23, 1995 - Elkhart, service for Rev. Theodore P. GERKEN, 81, of Arcadia, Mich. who died of natural causes at 2 a.m. Thursday in his daughter's home in Elkhart, will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in Trinity Lutheran Church, Arcadia. Burial will be in Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Arcadia. Friends may call from 1 p.m. until services Sunday in the church. Hartzler-Gutermuth Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. Memorial contributions may be made to Arcadia Camp Association or Valparaiso University Students Alumni Fund. Rev. GERKEN served Lutheran churches in St. Charles, Mo.; Afton, Mo.; LaGrange, Ill.; Whitter (sic), Calif.; Arcadia and Beulah, Mich. He was born July 10, 1914, in Ledue, Alberta, Cananda. On April 27, 1940, in Minenola, N.Y., he married Helen M. BENNIS. She died in 1991. Surviving are three daughters, Kathleen PLATT of Elkhart, Barbara HUNTER of Bayton, Texas, and Miriam TEMME of Casper, Wyo.; a son Paul of Pied! mont, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; four sisters, Ruth MAYER and Martha DOELLINGER, both of Marysville, Ohio, Dorothea FOELBER of Brighten, Mich., and Gertrude KLEPPER of Alamo, Texas; and three brothers, Martin of Marysville, Rev. Erwin GERKIN of Pyuyallup, Wash., and Rev. Oscar GERKEN of Eustis, Fla. He attended Concordia College, Fort Wayne, and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. source: unknown newspaper (submitted by a volunteer, no family connection)