Hazleton Standard Speaker, Monday, March 15, 1965:
Rev. H. Clay Bergstresser, D.D., pastor emeritus of Hazleton Trinity Lutheran Church, died at 2:15 p.m. yesterday at his residence, 531 James street. Death was attributed to complications following an extended illness. He was 72. Rev. Bergstresser was active pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church from December 1, 1924 to February, 1960, a span of more than 35 years. He succeeded the late Rev. Dr. John Wagner, the congregation's first pastor who resigned July 1, 1924 after 50 years in the local charge. Rev. Bergstresser, then pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Littlestown, 10 miles south of Gettysburg, was invited to supply Trinity's pulpit on Sunday, August 10, 1924, as a possible applicant for this pastorate. On Sunday, October 19, Rev. Bergstresser was elected at a special congregational meeting and extended a call to become pastor of the Hazleton church. The call was accepted after careful consideration and much prayer, although the Littlestown church was reluctant to lost its leader.
Rev. Bergstresser was born in Lykens in Dauphin County on May 23, 1892, son of the late Edwin L. and Helen L. (Watson) Bergstresser. At the age of ten, he moved to Selinsgrove with his parents. He was graduated from Susquehanna University Theological Seminary on June 12, 1917, and was ordained into the Christian Ministry on October 4, 1917, in the Lutheran Church at State College, PA...
The pastor's first wife, Mrs. Anna A. Bergstresser, died in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia on April 25, 1932. On June 29, 1936, Rev. Bergstresser married Miss Algetha Sthare, who had been organist at Trinity since November, 1918...
On December 18, 1964, he was taken to Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, where he was a patient in the emergency area in critical condition with acute heart failure. On January 23, he was able to return home. His final illness came last Tuesday night when he began to fail rapidly.
Surviving are his wife, the former Algetha Sthare; a daughter, Mrs. James F. (Ruth) Koch, of this city; a son, John; a sister, Mrs. Jessie Boyer, Catawissa; and many nieces and nephews. Several of the nephews are ordained ministers.
The viewing will be in Trinity Lutheran Church on Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Services will be conducted on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in the church. Interment will be in Sky-View Memorial Park, Hometown.
s/o Edwin Lot Bergstresser 1855-1927
s/o Helen Louise Watson 1859-1937
f/o Paul Watson Bergstresser 1911-1911
f/o Edna Ruth Bergstresser 1912-
f/o John Watson Bergstresser 1914-2001
Rev. H. Clay Bergstresser, D.D., pastor emeritus of Hazleton Trinity Lutheran Church, died at 2:15 p.m. yesterday at his residence, 531 James street. Death was attributed to complications following an extended illness. He was 72. Rev. Bergstresser was active pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church from December 1, 1924 to February, 1960, a span of more than 35 years. He succeeded the late Rev. Dr. John Wagner, the congregation's first pastor who resigned July 1, 1924 after 50 years in the local charge. Rev. Bergstresser, then pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Littlestown, 10 miles south of Gettysburg, was invited to supply Trinity's pulpit on Sunday, August 10, 1924, as a possible applicant for this pastorate. On Sunday, October 19, Rev. Bergstresser was elected at a special congregational meeting and extended a call to become pastor of the Hazleton church. The call was accepted after careful consideration and much prayer, although the Littlestown church was reluctant to lost its leader.
Rev. Bergstresser was born in Lykens in Dauphin County on May 23, 1892, son of the late Edwin L. and Helen L. (Watson) Bergstresser. At the age of ten, he moved to Selinsgrove with his parents. He was graduated from Susquehanna University Theological Seminary on June 12, 1917, and was ordained into the Christian Ministry on October 4, 1917, in the Lutheran Church at State College, PA...
The pastor's first wife, Mrs. Anna A. Bergstresser, died in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia on April 25, 1932. On June 29, 1936, Rev. Bergstresser married Miss Algetha Sthare, who had been organist at Trinity since November, 1918...
On December 18, 1964, he was taken to Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, where he was a patient in the emergency area in critical condition with acute heart failure. On January 23, he was able to return home. His final illness came last Tuesday night when he began to fail rapidly.
Surviving are his wife, the former Algetha Sthare; a daughter, Mrs. James F. (Ruth) Koch, of this city; a son, John; a sister, Mrs. Jessie Boyer, Catawissa; and many nieces and nephews. Several of the nephews are ordained ministers.
The viewing will be in Trinity Lutheran Church on Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Services will be conducted on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in the church. Interment will be in Sky-View Memorial Park, Hometown.
s/o Edwin Lot Bergstresser 1855-1927
s/o Helen Louise Watson 1859-1937
f/o Paul Watson Bergstresser 1911-1911
f/o Edna Ruth Bergstresser 1912-
f/o John Watson Bergstresser 1914-2001
Hazleton Standard Speaker, Monday, March 15, 1965:
Rev. H. Clay Bergstresser, D.D., pastor emeritus of Hazleton Trinity Lutheran Church, died at 2:15 p.m. yesterday at his residence, 531 James street. Death was attributed to complications following an extended illness. He was 72. Rev. Bergstresser was active pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church from December 1, 1924 to February, 1960, a span of more than 35 years. He succeeded the late Rev. Dr. John Wagner, the congregation's first pastor who resigned July 1, 1924 after 50 years in the local charge. Rev. Bergstresser, then pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Littlestown, 10 miles south of Gettysburg, was invited to supply Trinity's pulpit on Sunday, August 10, 1924, as a possible applicant for this pastorate. On Sunday, October 19, Rev. Bergstresser was elected at a special congregational meeting and extended a call to become pastor of the Hazleton church. The call was accepted after careful consideration and much prayer, although the Littlestown church was reluctant to lost its leader.
Rev. Bergstresser was born in Lykens in Dauphin County on May 23, 1892, son of the late Edwin L. and Helen L. (Watson) Bergstresser. At the age of ten, he moved to Selinsgrove with his parents. He was graduated from Susquehanna University Theological Seminary on June 12, 1917, and was ordained into the Christian Ministry on October 4, 1917, in the Lutheran Church at State College, PA...
The pastor's first wife, Mrs. Anna A. Bergstresser, died in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia on April 25, 1932. On June 29, 1936, Rev. Bergstresser married Miss Algetha Sthare, who had been organist at Trinity since November, 1918...
On December 18, 1964, he was taken to Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, where he was a patient in the emergency area in critical condition with acute heart failure. On January 23, he was able to return home. His final illness came last Tuesday night when he began to fail rapidly.
Surviving are his wife, the former Algetha Sthare; a daughter, Mrs. James F. (Ruth) Koch, of this city; a son, John; a sister, Mrs. Jessie Boyer, Catawissa; and many nieces and nephews. Several of the nephews are ordained ministers.
The viewing will be in Trinity Lutheran Church on Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Services will be conducted on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in the church. Interment will be in Sky-View Memorial Park, Hometown.
s/o Edwin Lot Bergstresser 1855-1927
s/o Helen Louise Watson 1859-1937
f/o Paul Watson Bergstresser 1911-1911
f/o Edna Ruth Bergstresser 1912-
f/o John Watson Bergstresser 1914-2001
Rev. H. Clay Bergstresser, D.D., pastor emeritus of Hazleton Trinity Lutheran Church, died at 2:15 p.m. yesterday at his residence, 531 James street. Death was attributed to complications following an extended illness. He was 72. Rev. Bergstresser was active pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church from December 1, 1924 to February, 1960, a span of more than 35 years. He succeeded the late Rev. Dr. John Wagner, the congregation's first pastor who resigned July 1, 1924 after 50 years in the local charge. Rev. Bergstresser, then pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Littlestown, 10 miles south of Gettysburg, was invited to supply Trinity's pulpit on Sunday, August 10, 1924, as a possible applicant for this pastorate. On Sunday, October 19, Rev. Bergstresser was elected at a special congregational meeting and extended a call to become pastor of the Hazleton church. The call was accepted after careful consideration and much prayer, although the Littlestown church was reluctant to lost its leader.
Rev. Bergstresser was born in Lykens in Dauphin County on May 23, 1892, son of the late Edwin L. and Helen L. (Watson) Bergstresser. At the age of ten, he moved to Selinsgrove with his parents. He was graduated from Susquehanna University Theological Seminary on June 12, 1917, and was ordained into the Christian Ministry on October 4, 1917, in the Lutheran Church at State College, PA...
The pastor's first wife, Mrs. Anna A. Bergstresser, died in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia on April 25, 1932. On June 29, 1936, Rev. Bergstresser married Miss Algetha Sthare, who had been organist at Trinity since November, 1918...
On December 18, 1964, he was taken to Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, where he was a patient in the emergency area in critical condition with acute heart failure. On January 23, he was able to return home. His final illness came last Tuesday night when he began to fail rapidly.
Surviving are his wife, the former Algetha Sthare; a daughter, Mrs. James F. (Ruth) Koch, of this city; a son, John; a sister, Mrs. Jessie Boyer, Catawissa; and many nieces and nephews. Several of the nephews are ordained ministers.
The viewing will be in Trinity Lutheran Church on Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Services will be conducted on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in the church. Interment will be in Sky-View Memorial Park, Hometown.
s/o Edwin Lot Bergstresser 1855-1927
s/o Helen Louise Watson 1859-1937
f/o Paul Watson Bergstresser 1911-1911
f/o Edna Ruth Bergstresser 1912-
f/o John Watson Bergstresser 1914-2001
