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Niagara Gazette - 1/29/1955

Harold C. Norris
Will Be Ordained
At Zion Church
tomorrow at Zion Lutheran Church,
Michigan Ave. and 10th St. It will
be the first ordination inihe 97-year
history of the church.
. Mr. Norris, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Norris Jr., 1150 Willow
Ave., was born Oct. 17, 1930 in
this city and graduated from Niagara
Falls High School in 1948. At*
Wagner College, Staten Island, he
majored in philosophy and was active
in the choir, band, Student
Christian Association.
He was a member of the Beta
Gamma Chi music fraternity and
the Sigma Delta Phi social -fraternity.
He graduated from Wagner
College in 1952.
In September of that year. Mr.
Norris entered Mt. Airy Lutheran
Theological Seminary in Philadelphia,
becoming active in the choir
and a dramatic reading group. While
a seminary student, he married the j
former Barbara Ann Lorcnz of j
Philadelphia. The Norrises have a I
daughter, Adrian Lee, born last;
August.
Mr. Norris, who was graduated!
from the seminary Wednesday, has I
accepted a call to become the pastor;
of St. John's Lutheran Church, Ancram,
N.Y., in the Hudson Valley, i
He will leave after his ordination;
to begin work there on Feb. 1. Ai
brother, Howard, is the assistant
pastor of Covenant Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Ridgewood. N.Y.
Participating in the ordination
service will be the Rev. Dr. Arthur
H. Schmoyer, senior pastor of Zion,
who will serve as liturgist; the Rev.
Dr. Frederick R. Knubel, president
of the United Lutheran Synod of
New York and New England, who
will conduct the rite of ordination,
,and the Rev. Dr. Edmund A.
Steimle. professor of homiletics in
the Philadelphia Seminary, who
will deliver the sermon.

Family/Spouse: LORENZ, Barbara Ann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]