Rev. Roekle, 52, Bethany Church Pastor, Dead
The Rev. Armin C. Roekle, 52, of 3115 Meadow Ln., pastor of Bethany Lutheran
Church since its completion in 1944, died Sunday evening at Memorial Hospital
following a brief illness.
The Rev. Mr. Roekle was born March 31, 1914, at Plymouth, son of the late Rev.
J. J. Roekle and Leonora Weiss Roekle. He attended grade schools at Allengan,
Mich., high school at Michigan Lutheran seminary, Saginaw, took his bachelor’s
degree in 1936 at North Western College, Watertown, and was graduated from
Lutheran Technological Seminary, Mequon.
Ordained in 1941
He was ordained to the ministry May 11, 1941, by the Rev. L. H. Koeninger, whom
he served as assistant pastor at First German Evangelical Lutheran Church until
the construction of Bethany Church, which he served as its first and only pastor
until his death. The Rev. Mr. Roekle’s father gave the sermon at his son’s
ordination.
The Rev. Mr. Roekle was second vice president of the Northern Wisconsin District
of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, past chairman of the Manitowoc
Pastoral Conference and a board member of the Milwaukee Lutheran Teachers
College.
On Nov. 5, 1941, he married Esther Kawalle at Manitowoc.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, Paul of Manitowoc and Karl and John,
attending Stout State University, Menominee, two daughters, Joan and Ruth at
home, his step-mother of Saginaw, five brothers, Gerald and Victor, of Saginaw,
Norbert, of Kalamazoo, Mich., Werner, of Kewaunee and Waldemar, of Jefferson,
and two sisters, Mrs. Emil (Esther) Pushcel, of Kalamazoo and Mrs. Wallace (Irma)
Weiss, of Frankenmuth, Mich.
Funeral Wednesday
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bethany Lutheran Church, where
friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Theodore Sauer, pastor of Grace
Evangelical Lutheran Church, will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen
Cemetery.
The family has requested memorials be given the Bethany Church School Fund.
Urbanek and Schlei Funeral home made arrangements for the service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 16, 1967 P. 12
The Rev. Armin C. Roekle, 52, of 3115 Meadow Ln., pastor of Bethany Lutheran
Church since its completion in 1944, died Sunday evening at Memorial Hospital
following a brief illness.
The Rev. Mr. Roekle was born March 31, 1914, at Plymouth, son of the late Rev.
J. J. Roekle and Leonora Weiss Roekle. He attended grade schools at Allengan,
Mich., high school at Michigan Lutheran seminary, Saginaw, took his bachelor’s
degree in 1936 at North Western College, Watertown, and was graduated from
Lutheran Technological Seminary, Mequon.
Ordained in 1941
He was ordained to the ministry May 11, 1941, by the Rev. L. H. Koeninger, whom
he served as assistant pastor at First German Evangelical Lutheran Church until
the construction of Bethany Church, which he served as its first and only pastor
until his death. The Rev. Mr. Roekle’s father gave the sermon at his son’s
ordination.
The Rev. Mr. Roekle was second vice president of the Northern Wisconsin District
of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, past chairman of the Manitowoc
Pastoral Conference and a board member of the Milwaukee Lutheran Teachers
College.
On Nov. 5, 1941, he married Esther Kawalle at Manitowoc.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, Paul of Manitowoc and Karl and John,
attending Stout State University, Menominee, two daughters, Joan and Ruth at
home, his step-mother of Saginaw, five brothers, Gerald and Victor, of Saginaw,
Norbert, of Kalamazoo, Mich., Werner, of Kewaunee and Waldemar, of Jefferson,
and two sisters, Mrs. Emil (Esther) Pushcel, of Kalamazoo and Mrs. Wallace (Irma)
Weiss, of Frankenmuth, Mich.
Funeral Wednesday
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bethany Lutheran Church, where
friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Theodore Sauer, pastor of Grace
Evangelical Lutheran Church, will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen
Cemetery.
The family has requested memorials be given the Bethany Church School Fund.
Urbanek and Schlei Funeral home made arrangements for the service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 16, 1967 P. 12
Rev. Roekle, 52, Bethany Church Pastor, Dead
The Rev. Armin C. Roekle, 52, of 3115 Meadow Ln., pastor of Bethany Lutheran
Church since its completion in 1944, died Sunday evening at Memorial Hospital
following a brief illness.
The Rev. Mr. Roekle was born March 31, 1914, at Plymouth, son of the late Rev.
J. J. Roekle and Leonora Weiss Roekle. He attended grade schools at Allengan,
Mich., high school at Michigan Lutheran seminary, Saginaw, took his bachelor’s
degree in 1936 at North Western College, Watertown, and was graduated from
Lutheran Technological Seminary, Mequon.
Ordained in 1941
He was ordained to the ministry May 11, 1941, by the Rev. L. H. Koeninger, whom
he served as assistant pastor at First German Evangelical Lutheran Church until
the construction of Bethany Church, which he served as its first and only pastor
until his death. The Rev. Mr. Roekle’s father gave the sermon at his son’s
ordination.
The Rev. Mr. Roekle was second vice president of the Northern Wisconsin District
of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, past chairman of the Manitowoc
Pastoral Conference and a board member of the Milwaukee Lutheran Teachers
College.
On Nov. 5, 1941, he married Esther Kawalle at Manitowoc.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, Paul of Manitowoc and Karl and John,
attending Stout State University, Menominee, two daughters, Joan and Ruth at
home, his step-mother of Saginaw, five brothers, Gerald and Victor, of Saginaw,
Norbert, of Kalamazoo, Mich., Werner, of Kewaunee and Waldemar, of Jefferson,
and two sisters, Mrs. Emil (Esther) Pushcel, of Kalamazoo and Mrs. Wallace (Irma)
Weiss, of Frankenmuth, Mich.
Funeral Wednesday
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bethany Lutheran Church, where
friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Theodore Sauer, pastor of Grace
Evangelical Lutheran Church, will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen
Cemetery.
The family has requested memorials be given the Bethany Church School Fund.
Urbanek and Schlei Funeral home made arrangements for the service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 16, 1967 P. 12
The Rev. Armin C. Roekle, 52, of 3115 Meadow Ln., pastor of Bethany Lutheran
Church since its completion in 1944, died Sunday evening at Memorial Hospital
following a brief illness.
The Rev. Mr. Roekle was born March 31, 1914, at Plymouth, son of the late Rev.
J. J. Roekle and Leonora Weiss Roekle. He attended grade schools at Allengan,
Mich., high school at Michigan Lutheran seminary, Saginaw, took his bachelor’s
degree in 1936 at North Western College, Watertown, and was graduated from
Lutheran Technological Seminary, Mequon.
Ordained in 1941
He was ordained to the ministry May 11, 1941, by the Rev. L. H. Koeninger, whom
he served as assistant pastor at First German Evangelical Lutheran Church until
the construction of Bethany Church, which he served as its first and only pastor
until his death. The Rev. Mr. Roekle’s father gave the sermon at his son’s
ordination.
The Rev. Mr. Roekle was second vice president of the Northern Wisconsin District
of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, past chairman of the Manitowoc
Pastoral Conference and a board member of the Milwaukee Lutheran Teachers
College.
On Nov. 5, 1941, he married Esther Kawalle at Manitowoc.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, Paul of Manitowoc and Karl and John,
attending Stout State University, Menominee, two daughters, Joan and Ruth at
home, his step-mother of Saginaw, five brothers, Gerald and Victor, of Saginaw,
Norbert, of Kalamazoo, Mich., Werner, of Kewaunee and Waldemar, of Jefferson,
and two sisters, Mrs. Emil (Esther) Pushcel, of Kalamazoo and Mrs. Wallace (Irma)
Weiss, of Frankenmuth, Mich.
Funeral Wednesday
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bethany Lutheran Church, where
friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Theodore Sauer, pastor of Grace
Evangelical Lutheran Church, will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen
Cemetery.
The family has requested memorials be given the Bethany Church School Fund.
Urbanek and Schlei Funeral home made arrangements for the service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 16, 1967 P. 12
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