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Pastor Lorenz C.C Grueber was installed at Trinity on
November 10, 1929 by Rev. Edward Schmidt of Leland, Michigan.
The following article appeared in the Traverse City
Record-Eagle on June 2, 1953.
“Rev. Grueber, Chaplain at Hospital, Dies
Trinity Lutheran Church and a host of acquaintances and
friends in the greater Grand Traverse area were saddened by the sudden death of
Rev. Lorenz C.C. Grueber, former pastor of Trinity Church and Chaplain of the
State Hospital. Pastor Grueber died Monday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock at Munson
hospital after and illness of approximately a year, following surgery at Sparrow
Hospital in Lansing,
The Rev. Grueber was born August 24, 1896, on a farm near
Frankenmuth, Michigan, receiving his elementary education in the parochial
schools of that community. Choosing the Holy Ministry as his life’s vocation,
he enrolled at Concordia College, Milwaukee, the preparatory school of the
church. After six years of academic training, he was graduated in 1917, and
matriculated to Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, from which
he was graduated in 1920, qualifying for a call into the active ministry of the
church.
His first charge was St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of
Holstein, Nebraska. After a fruitful ministry in this parish, extending over a
period of nine years, the Rev. Grueber was called to the pastorate of Trinity
Church of this city, and to St. Matthew Church of Mancelona, serving both for
over 18 years. From the beginning of his ministry in this city, Pastor Grueber
showed a heart interest (sic) in the spiritual welfare of the patients at the
State hospital, serving them throughout the years of his ministry here.
In June of the year 1948 he resigned from the pastorate of
Trinity Church to become the first full-time resident chaplain of the hospital.
His influence was also felt in wider areas of the church during the years that
he acted (original unreadable here)…
On July 24, 1920, Pastor Grueber was united in marriage to
Martha Lorengel of Muskegon, who survives him, together with four sons, LaVerne,
Norman, Ralph and Harold and two daughters, Rhoda and Dorothy. The bereaved
include also three brothers, Leonard, Conrad and Alfred Grueber, all of
Frankenmuth, four sisters, Martha --- of Frankenmuth, Hannah Weber of
Richville, Paulina Weber of Millington and Ida Petzold of Millington; three
grandchildren.
……Services will be held at the church (Trinity) beginning
at 2:30 o’clock with the Rev. Fred Wiese of St. Peter’s Church, Big Rapids,
lifelong friend of the deceased, delivering the funeral sermon.
The service will be conducted by the Rev. W. Harry Krieger,
STM, the successor of Pastor Grueber. The committal service will be read by the
Rev. Edward F. Schmidt of Leland with burial in Grand Traverse Memorial
Gardens. Official representatives of the Manistee circuit and of the Michigan
District of the Lutheran Church, together with pastoral delegates throughout the
state will attend. Pastors of the Manistee circuit will act as the pallbearers
with the members of the Board of Elders of Trinity and St. Matthew Churches
serving as the guard of honor.”
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