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- ?28 Mar 1956
Rev. Mackensen Dies; Former Mission Official
The Rev. Herman Mackensen, a retired Lutheran minister, died yesterday at his home, 5864 North Twenty-sixth street, Arlington, Va. Mr. Mackensen was a pastor in Blasdell, N. Y., from 1944 until 1946 when he retired and came to Arlington to live. He took such an active part in the affairs of Resurrection Church in Arlington, that even though he had not been minister there he was elected in 1952 as pastor emeritus. He preached occasionally at the church and taught classes there.
Headed Mission Group
From 1919 until 1925, Mr. Mackensen was field secretary for the Lutheran Orient Mission Society in Canada and the United States, a group he helped found and of which he served as president. Later, from 1928 to 1932, he was superintendent of InterMissions of the United Lutheran Synod of New York and New England to promote establishment of Lutheran congregations.Mr. Mackensen was born in Ontario, Canada, and was graduated from Martin Luther College. He was ordained in 1894 in Buffalo and took over his first ministerial post in Walmore N. Y. He also had been a pastor in Detroit, Mich.; Southington, Conn., and Hartford, Conn. A pianist and organist, Mr. Mackensen composed church music. He also was the author of two books, "Raymond Lull, A Missionary Pioneer in the Moslem World," and "Revelation in the Light of History and Experience."
Survivors listed
Survivors are his widow, Mrs., Sophia Bode Mackensen; a son, William, 1510 Thirty-fourth street N.W., a teacher at Bladensburg High School; two daughters, Mrs. Estelle M. Kile, Arlington, Va., and Mrs. Hans Reinhart, New York; three brothers, Sigmund, North Tonawanda, N. Y., William J., Yardley, Pa., and the Rev. Paul Mackensen, a Lutheran minister in Baltimore; two sisters, Miss. Louise Mackensen, near Buffalo, N. Y., and Mrs. Elsie Denef, Marquette, Mich.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Ives funeral home, 2847 Wilson boulevard, Arlington. Burial will be in Columbia Gardens Cemetery. The family requests that any tokens of sympathy be in the form of donations to the Lutheran Mission, in care of Dr. J. Luther Mauney, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.
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1869 - 1956 (87 years)