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October 28, 2004
Notes about people
by Jerry L. Van Marter
U.S. Army Private 1st Class Anthony Monroe, 21, a Presbyterian from Bismarck, ND, was killed in Iraq on Oct. 10.
Monroe, who joined the U.S. Army in the fall of 2002, was sent to Iraq a couple months ago and was stationed in Baghdad.
He was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Bismarck.
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The Rev. Robert E. Lodwick, 90, who served as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionary to Brazil from 1940-1970 with his wife, Irene, died Oct. 20 at a Wooster, OH, hospital.
Lodwick (a cousin of the Rev. Robert C. Lodwick, also a former Presbyterian missionary who served primarily in Europe) graduated from Maryville (TN) College, McCormick Theological Seminary (M.Div), Oberlin Graduate School of Theology (Masters of Sacred Theology) and Vanderbilt University Divinity School (D.Min).
Ordained by Chicago Presbytery in 1939, he served pastorates in Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio in addition to his mission service.
In addition to his wife, Lodwick is survived by five children — including daughter Irene Sivalee, who followed him into mission service in Brazil; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and three sisters. A brother, Edward, died previously.
Services were held Oct. 23 at Fredericksburg (OH) Presbyterian Church.
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Vince Isner of Fairfax, VA, has been named the first full-time director of FaithfulAmerica.org, the online advocacy service of the National Council of Churches.
FaithfulAmerica.org began in May and has more than 120,000 members who have helped advance several initiatives dealing with a faith response to public issues, including genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region, the Abu Graib Prison torture scandal and persistent poverty in the United States. The site also includes resources for voters in this election year.
Isner, a veteran of more than 20 years’ experience in electronic media production, design, marketing, print and web communication, has served as communications director for the United Methodist Board of Church and Society in Washington, DC. Earlier he served nine years as a writer, director and producer for United Methodist Communications and the United Methodist Publishing House, both in Nashville.
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Dr. Glenn M. Irwin, 73, who served as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) medical missionary in Papua New Guinea for 30 years, died Oct. 23 at a Kalamazoo, MI, hospital.
Irwin entered mission service after graduating from Sterling (KS) College and the University of Health Sciences in Kansas City, MO. Born in 1931, he served in the U.S. Army from 1954-1956.
Irwin is survived by his wife, Marilyn Benham David; two sons; 10 grandchildren and four brothers. His funeral is Oct. 30 at Hillsdale (MI) Church of the Nazarene.
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