Sunday, May 5, 2019

In the News ... "Calvary Lutheran established in San Angelo after WWII"

Editor's Note: The Standard-Times will spotlight a different San Angelo house of faith each week during 2019.

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• Lutheran history in San Angelo

By Matthew McDaniel, Reporter
San Angelo Standard Times


SAN ANGELO, TEXAS - Not long after World War II, several local Lutheran families reached out to the American Lutheran Church with the aim of forming a congregation in San Angelo, and in January of 1947, the Rev. Albert C. Shiff Jr. came here with his family to get things going ...

... Calvary Lutheran was formally organized on Sunday, March 9, 1947. During this era, there were about 60 churches in San Angelo, according to historical records ...

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