Oswald Elbert ’34

Os Elbert, a pensioned Lutheran pastor with some shut-in calling and preaching, died Aug. 5, 2004, in Reading [Pa.] Hospital after a brief illness.

Since 1993 he and his wife, Alice Femsler Elbert, had lived in a continuing-care facility in Wyomissing, Pa., "to relieve our children," in his words, "of our care and concern."

Having received his master of divinity degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1940, Os served in a number of positions, including pastor at a Lutheran church in Columbus, Ohio, and another in Middletown, N.Y.; for the National Lutheran Council in its Division of College and University Work; as pastor of a Lutheran church in Tinicum and Clark's Summit, Pa., and, from 1971-80 as pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Temple, Pa.

Surviving, besides Alice, are two daughters, a son, a brother, and five grandchildren, to all of whom we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934