Howard Adelbert Batdorf is the husband of Tillie W. Wagner Batdorf, who is also buried in the Lewis Cemetery.
Howard Adelbert Batdorf was born 7 Feb 1910 at Rockford, Minnesota. He was the son of Allen and Margaret Izella [Prestidge] Batdorf.
OBITUARY HOWARD BATDORF STAR TRIBUNE 13 OCT 1988:
REV. HOWARD BATDORF, PASTOR TO INDIANS, DIES: The Rev. Howard A. Batdorf, 78, a retired Christian and Missionary Alliance Pastor at Indian Missions throughout Minnesota, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Blaine.
Batdorf grew up near Onamia, Minnesota and graduated from the St. Paul Bible College in 1935. He and his wife, Tillie, met at the Bible College and were married in 1936. They traveled to a Bible college in Nyack, New York hoping to study to become foreign missionaries.
"We had to have two years of home service before we could be foreign missionaries so we came back here to St. Paul and were assigned to an Indian mission up at Naytahwaush, Minnesota," his wife said yesterday.
Batdorf stayed in Naytahwaush for 3 years, then served at an Indian Church in Cass Lake, Minnesota. There he started Mo-kahum, a Bible School to prepare young Indian men for the ministry.
From 1951 to 1956, he was pastor of an Indian Mission Church in Inger, near Deer River, Minnesota.
"After we got into the Indian missions we felt that's were God wanted us to stay and we never reapplied [for foreign mission work]," his wife said. "He was very dedicated and very much in love with whatever he undertook. The Indian people really loved him because he became one of them in caring for everyone of their needs....be it taking them 50 miles from Inger to a hospital to have a baby [or] whenever they had needs to go to town."
Batdorf served at a Community Church in Oylen, a rural community north of Staples, Minnesota, for 10 years and spent the last 10 years of his career at the American Indian Church at E. 14th St. and 1st Av. S. in Minneapolis.
He retired in 1976, but performed weddings and officiated at funerals for his former parishioners until recently.
Besides his wife, Batdorf is survived by a son, Herb of Blaine; daughters, Phyllis Lotito of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Janice Spangler of Laredo, Texas; a sister, Dorothy Peterson of Minneapolis, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 7 p.m. at Word of Life Church of Coon Rapids, 10730 N. University Av., Coon Rapids. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Albin Chapel, 2200 Nicollet Ave. So. Minneapolis.
Howard is my first cousin, one time removed.
Howard Adelbert Batdorf was born 7 Feb 1910 at Rockford, Minnesota. He was the son of Allen and Margaret Izella [Prestidge] Batdorf.
OBITUARY HOWARD BATDORF STAR TRIBUNE 13 OCT 1988:
REV. HOWARD BATDORF, PASTOR TO INDIANS, DIES: The Rev. Howard A. Batdorf, 78, a retired Christian and Missionary Alliance Pastor at Indian Missions throughout Minnesota, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Blaine.
Batdorf grew up near Onamia, Minnesota and graduated from the St. Paul Bible College in 1935. He and his wife, Tillie, met at the Bible College and were married in 1936. They traveled to a Bible college in Nyack, New York hoping to study to become foreign missionaries.
"We had to have two years of home service before we could be foreign missionaries so we came back here to St. Paul and were assigned to an Indian mission up at Naytahwaush, Minnesota," his wife said yesterday.
Batdorf stayed in Naytahwaush for 3 years, then served at an Indian Church in Cass Lake, Minnesota. There he started Mo-kahum, a Bible School to prepare young Indian men for the ministry.
From 1951 to 1956, he was pastor of an Indian Mission Church in Inger, near Deer River, Minnesota.
"After we got into the Indian missions we felt that's were God wanted us to stay and we never reapplied [for foreign mission work]," his wife said. "He was very dedicated and very much in love with whatever he undertook. The Indian people really loved him because he became one of them in caring for everyone of their needs....be it taking them 50 miles from Inger to a hospital to have a baby [or] whenever they had needs to go to town."
Batdorf served at a Community Church in Oylen, a rural community north of Staples, Minnesota, for 10 years and spent the last 10 years of his career at the American Indian Church at E. 14th St. and 1st Av. S. in Minneapolis.
He retired in 1976, but performed weddings and officiated at funerals for his former parishioners until recently.
Besides his wife, Batdorf is survived by a son, Herb of Blaine; daughters, Phyllis Lotito of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Janice Spangler of Laredo, Texas; a sister, Dorothy Peterson of Minneapolis, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 7 p.m. at Word of Life Church of Coon Rapids, 10730 N. University Av., Coon Rapids. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Albin Chapel, 2200 Nicollet Ave. So. Minneapolis.
Howard is my first cousin, one time removed.
Howard Adelbert Batdorf is the husband of Tillie W. Wagner Batdorf, who is also buried in the Lewis Cemetery.
Howard Adelbert Batdorf was born 7 Feb 1910 at Rockford, Minnesota. He was the son of Allen and Margaret Izella [Prestidge] Batdorf.
OBITUARY HOWARD BATDORF STAR TRIBUNE 13 OCT 1988:
REV. HOWARD BATDORF, PASTOR TO INDIANS, DIES: The Rev. Howard A. Batdorf, 78, a retired Christian and Missionary Alliance Pastor at Indian Missions throughout Minnesota, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Blaine.
Batdorf grew up near Onamia, Minnesota and graduated from the St. Paul Bible College in 1935. He and his wife, Tillie, met at the Bible College and were married in 1936. They traveled to a Bible college in Nyack, New York hoping to study to become foreign missionaries.
"We had to have two years of home service before we could be foreign missionaries so we came back here to St. Paul and were assigned to an Indian mission up at Naytahwaush, Minnesota," his wife said yesterday.
Batdorf stayed in Naytahwaush for 3 years, then served at an Indian Church in Cass Lake, Minnesota. There he started Mo-kahum, a Bible School to prepare young Indian men for the ministry.
From 1951 to 1956, he was pastor of an Indian Mission Church in Inger, near Deer River, Minnesota.
"After we got into the Indian missions we felt that's were God wanted us to stay and we never reapplied [for foreign mission work]," his wife said. "He was very dedicated and very much in love with whatever he undertook. The Indian people really loved him because he became one of them in caring for everyone of their needs....be it taking them 50 miles from Inger to a hospital to have a baby [or] whenever they had needs to go to town."
Batdorf served at a Community Church in Oylen, a rural community north of Staples, Minnesota, for 10 years and spent the last 10 years of his career at the American Indian Church at E. 14th St. and 1st Av. S. in Minneapolis.
He retired in 1976, but performed weddings and officiated at funerals for his former parishioners until recently.
Besides his wife, Batdorf is survived by a son, Herb of Blaine; daughters, Phyllis Lotito of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Janice Spangler of Laredo, Texas; a sister, Dorothy Peterson of Minneapolis, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 7 p.m. at Word of Life Church of Coon Rapids, 10730 N. University Av., Coon Rapids. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Albin Chapel, 2200 Nicollet Ave. So. Minneapolis.
Howard is my first cousin, one time removed.
Howard Adelbert Batdorf was born 7 Feb 1910 at Rockford, Minnesota. He was the son of Allen and Margaret Izella [Prestidge] Batdorf.
OBITUARY HOWARD BATDORF STAR TRIBUNE 13 OCT 1988:
REV. HOWARD BATDORF, PASTOR TO INDIANS, DIES: The Rev. Howard A. Batdorf, 78, a retired Christian and Missionary Alliance Pastor at Indian Missions throughout Minnesota, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Blaine.
Batdorf grew up near Onamia, Minnesota and graduated from the St. Paul Bible College in 1935. He and his wife, Tillie, met at the Bible College and were married in 1936. They traveled to a Bible college in Nyack, New York hoping to study to become foreign missionaries.
"We had to have two years of home service before we could be foreign missionaries so we came back here to St. Paul and were assigned to an Indian mission up at Naytahwaush, Minnesota," his wife said yesterday.
Batdorf stayed in Naytahwaush for 3 years, then served at an Indian Church in Cass Lake, Minnesota. There he started Mo-kahum, a Bible School to prepare young Indian men for the ministry.
From 1951 to 1956, he was pastor of an Indian Mission Church in Inger, near Deer River, Minnesota.
"After we got into the Indian missions we felt that's were God wanted us to stay and we never reapplied [for foreign mission work]," his wife said. "He was very dedicated and very much in love with whatever he undertook. The Indian people really loved him because he became one of them in caring for everyone of their needs....be it taking them 50 miles from Inger to a hospital to have a baby [or] whenever they had needs to go to town."
Batdorf served at a Community Church in Oylen, a rural community north of Staples, Minnesota, for 10 years and spent the last 10 years of his career at the American Indian Church at E. 14th St. and 1st Av. S. in Minneapolis.
He retired in 1976, but performed weddings and officiated at funerals for his former parishioners until recently.
Besides his wife, Batdorf is survived by a son, Herb of Blaine; daughters, Phyllis Lotito of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Janice Spangler of Laredo, Texas; a sister, Dorothy Peterson of Minneapolis, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 7 p.m. at Word of Life Church of Coon Rapids, 10730 N. University Av., Coon Rapids. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Albin Chapel, 2200 Nicollet Ave. So. Minneapolis.
Howard is my first cousin, one time removed.
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