ELCA NEWS SERVICE

January 15, 2005

Rev. Raynold Lingwall, Former LCA Synod President, Dies
05-006-JB

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Raynold J. Lingwall, retired pastor of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and former longtime Iowa
Synod president in the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), died Jan. 6 in
Des Moines, Iowa.
     Funeral services for Lingwall, 93, were Jan. 10 at St. John's
Lutheran Church, Des Moines.
     Lingwall was born in 1911 in Hordville, Neb. He earned a bachelor's
degree in English literature in 1936 from Bethany College, an ELCA higher
education institution in Lindsborg, Kansas, and a bachelor of divinity
degree in 1940 from Augustana Lutheran Theological Seminary, Rock Island,
Ill. In 1962 he received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from
Augustana Lutheran Theological Seminary.
     He was ordained in the former Augustana Lutheran Church in June 1940.
     Lingwall served Lutheran congregations in Sherrard, Ill., Swedona,
Ill., and Red Oak, Iowa.
     While in Red Oak, he was elected president of the Iowa Conference,
Augustana Lutheran Church.  In 1962 Lingwall was elected president of the
LCA Iowa Synod, a position he held until he retired in 1978. Following his
retirement, he served as visitation pastor at Grandview Lutheran Church,
Des Moines, and was a part-time hospital chaplain at Trinity Center at
Luther Park, Des Moines.
     Lingwall served on boards of both the Augustana Lutheran Church and
the LCA. He was on the board of directors at Grandview College, Des
Moines, and was past president of the Scandinavian Association.
     The Augustana Lutheran Church was one of four churches that formed
the LCA in 1962.  The LCA was one of three Lutheran churches that formed
the ELCA in 1988.
     Lingwall is survived by his children, Keith, Norwalk, Iowa; Karen
Williams, Des Moines; Karna Lennes, Marine-on-St. Croix, Minn.; and David,
Des Moines; a sister, Leona Marymee, Fremont, Calif.; 12 grandchildren;
and 13 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 63
years, Ena, and seven siblings.

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