# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S11
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PRESIDENT’S TRIENNIAL REPORT 9

Laymen Whose Deaths Were Reported in the “Witness”

Mr. Albert H! Ahlbrand, Seymour, Indiana, member of Synod’s
Board of Directors, died 1946

Mr. Frank Nagel, St. Louis, office manager at Concordia Publishing
House, died 1946

Mr. Emil H. Hartmann, St. Louis, treasurer of Board of Control of
Concordia Seminary and treasurer of KFUO, died 1946

Dr. John W. Boehne, Evansville, Indiana, died 1946

Mr. Fred W. Overbeck, member and treasurer of Board of Control,
Bronxville, died 1946

Mr. Hy. F. Ritter, member of Board of Control, Austin, Texas,
died 1947

. Mr. A.M. Hillmann, for 30 years member of Board of Control,
St. Paul, died 1947

Mr. John P. Schaffer, former treasurer of Eastern District, died 1946

Miscellaneous
Mr. Wm. C. Looysen, former treasurer of Home Mission Board,
died 1944
Rev. Dietrich Henry Steffens, author, died 1944
Rev. Wm. Maschoff, Board of Foreign Missions, died 1944
Mr. Paul Theo. Buszin, Superintendent of Schools of Northern Ili-
nois District, died 1944
“Rev. Louis A. Wisler, Executive Secretary of Missionary Board of
Synodical Conference, died 1945
Rev. Frederick T. Ruhland, Secretary of Eastern District, pioneer
in Institutional Missions in Buffalo, died 1945
. Rev. John Adam Fahling, author, died 1945
~ Rev. Henry C. Gaertner, former chairman of Board of Control,
Austin, Texas, died 1945
: Rev. F. A. Mehl, served on Board of Foreign Missions and Electoral
College, St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Missouri, died 1946
: Rev. Ernst F. Mueller, Vice-President California and Nevada Dis-
trict, died 1945
~. Rev. Otto Heerwagen, Board for South American Missions, died 1946
_ Rev. Julius H. Deckmann, member of Board of Control, Concordia
College, St. Paul, died 1946
~ Rev. John H. Maack, St. Louis, member of Board of Foreign Mis-
_ sions, died 1946
Mr. Louis A. Heitbrink, teacher emeritus, chief compiler of An-
thologie, died 1946
Rev. Enno Duemling, pioneer in Institutional Missions in Milwau-
kee, died 1946