Well-known ELCA Missionary to Tanzania, J. David Simonson, Dies

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Date Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:07:23 -0500

Title: Well-known ELCA Missionary to Tanzania, J. David Simonson, Dies
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>August 20, 2010  

Well-known ELCA Missionary to Tanzania, J. David Simonson, Dies
10-223-JB

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. J. David Simonson, a retired pastor of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and well-known 
Lutheran
missionary who served in East Africa, died Aug. 16 at his home in 
Arusha,
Tanzania. Simonson, 80, spent more than 40 years working with the 
Maasai
tribe in Africa, and may have been best known for starting Operation
Bootstrap-Africa (OBA) in 1965, which raised millions of dollars to 
build
schools, including a school for young Maasai women.

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