# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S778 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 778 CONVENTION MINUTES Synod resolved to amend Handbook Section 10.47 b (3) as pro- posed in “Today’s Business,” page 139, permitting retired workers married to him prior to his retirement.” It was also ordered that the widow who marries a worker receiving an annuity and her children have no claim on the “benefits of the Pension Fund.”