ELCA NEWS SERVICE August 26, 2011 Dorothy Marple, retired church executive, dies 11-115-JR CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Dorothy Jane Marple, pioneering church executive and coordinator of the transition team for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), died Aug. 8, 2011, at Artman Lutheran Home in Ambler, Pa. Marple, a member of St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, was 84. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=5157 For information contact: Jan Rizzo 773-380-2949 [log in to unmask] http://www.elca.org/news Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Lutherans Twitter: http://twitter.com/elcanews