OBIT: Rev. Roland W. RENKEL, 1994, formerly of Somerset County, PA
  
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  RENKEL
  
  The Rev. Roland W. Renkel of Menno Haven, Chambersburg, died Jan. 7, 1994,
  at the home.  Born Oct. 15, 1906, in Otis, Kan., he was the son of the late
  George W. and Elizabeth Schreiber Renkel.  He graduated from Pueblo (Colo.)
  Central High School.  He attended Midland Lutheran College, Fremont, Ne.
  With appointment to the U.S. House of Representatives Post Office, he
  continued his education, graduating from George Washington University in
  1931.  In 1937, he entered Gettysburg's Lutheran Theological Seminary and
  was ordained by the Maryland Synod in 1940.  Following ordination, Rev.
  Renkel accepted the pastorate of three churches of the Hampstead (Md.)
  Parish.  In 1942, he was called to pastor the new Ascension Lutheran Church
  of Towson, Md.  Forced to relocate, the Second English Lutheran Church
  called Rev. Renkel in 1946 to help find a new location, build a church and
  education building and to pastor.  In 1958, after a brief Florida pastorate,
  he became pastor of the Chambersburg First Lutheran Church.  Called again by
  a congregation to assist in the building of a new church and education
  building, Rev. Renkel pastored the Trinity Lutheran Church of Somerset,
  until his retirement from active ministry in 1969.  Surviving are sisters:
  Mary Kathleen Rutledge of Silver Spring, Md., and Eleanor Henderson of
  Bethesda, Md.  Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 22 at First
  Lutheran Church, 43 West Washington St., Chambersburg.  Cremation
  arrangements by Cremation Society of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa.
  
  Daily American, January 20, 1994
  
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