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- Buffalo Express - 2/19/1969
Funeral services for the Rev John H. Stender, 79, pastor of Ascension Lutheran Church for 38 years and pastor emeritus since retiring to 1961,will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the church at 'Bailey and Dorris.The Rev. Martin A. Bauer, pastor,will conduct the services. Burial will be in White Chapel Memorial Park, Amherst.Chaplain at Hospital The Rev. Mr, Stender died Monday evening to St. Joseph's Intercommunity Hospital, Cbeektowaga, after a six-week illness. He was the Protestant chaplain there for the past six and a half years.Since his retirement as pastor of Ascension Lutheran Church,the Rev. Mr. Stender had supplied 14 churches from Ottawa to Jacksonville, Fla, During his 38 years at Ascension Lutheran he officiated at 300 marriages and baptized more than 700 persons. He observed his 55th anniversary in the ministry in March 1968.Council President When the Rev. Mr. Stender was president of the Lutheran Council of the Niagara Frontier he helped coordinate the work of three area Lutheran bodies, Lutheran Church.in America, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and American Lutheran Church.He also had served as vice president of the church's Eastern District and as chairman of both the Pensions and Regional Missions Committees.The Rev. Mr. Stender was born in Ladysmith, Que. He received his theological education at the Martin Luther Theological Seminary to Buffalo.Ordained In 1913 He was ordained into the Lutheran ministry in 1913 in the Trinity Old Lutheran Church, Buffalo. He served as pastor of St.Peter's Church, Medina, and also held pulpits to Gasport and Lockport from 1913 to 1918. He then served the Akron-South Newstead charge from 1918 until he came to Ascension Lutheran in 1923.A grandson, the Rev. David Nixon, is the assistant pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church,Grove City, Ohio.His first wife, Mrs. Emma Schilling Stender, died In 1984.Survivors are his second wife.Mrs. Lula McNair Stender; a son, Richard J. Stender of Depew: two daughters, Mrs. HarryD. Nixon of Schenectady and Mrs.Edward L. Smith Jr., of Buffalo;four sisters, Mrs. Lena Dahms,Mrs. Minnie Stender and Mrs.Hannah Bretzhoff, all of Ladysmith; and Mrs. Rote Bretzhoffof Ottawa; and three other grandchild
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