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PC(USA) minister dies at Geneva seminar
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October 16, 2003

PC(USA) minister dies at Geneva seminar

By Jerry L. Van Marter

LOUISVILLE - The Rev. Margaret Strodtz, a retired Presbyterian Church (USA)
minister from Minnesota , died suddenly in Geneva, Switzerland, while
attending a clergy and laity seminar on the ecumenical movement sponsored by
the PC(USA)'s Worldwide Ministries Division.

Strodtz, 83, was one of the first women ordained to the ministry by the
former Presbyterian Church in the USA ("northern stream"). Ordained in the
mid-1950s, Strodtz was a member of Twin Cities Area Presbytery at the time of
her death.

Strodtz became ill Oct. 10 at the John Knox Center, a guest house near the
Ecumenical Center in Geneva where seminar participants were staying. She was
taken to a local hospital where her condition deteriorated and she died two
days later, apparently of heart failure.

A memorial service was held in Geneva before the seminar concluded Oct. 15.
Arrangements in the U.S. are pending.

Information for this story furnished by the Rev. Theo Gill, PC(USA) minister
on the staff of the World Council of Churches in Geneva.

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