Bethlen Naptár, 1957 (Ligonier)
Officers of our Bethlen Home
BETHLEN NAPTÁR 227 OFFICERS OF OUR BETHLEN HOME REV LOUIS VARGA, tenth child in a family of eleven children, was bom in Kiskapus, Transylvania. He studied at the Gymnasiums of Nagyenyed, Erzsébetváros, and Pancsova, and at the Theological Seminaries of Sopron and Pozsony. World War I. was at its peak when he enlisted in the Austro- Hungarian army and fought in Russia, Italy, and France. He was discharged as lieutenant in 1918 and returned to his home town which he found under Rumanian occupation. He fled from here in a few weeks. In the same year he was privileged to become private tutor in the home of Count Stephen Bethlen where he stayed for three years. With the help of his brother who had been living in this country since 1901, Rev. Varga came to the United States in 1921. He worked for a short period of time in the Youngstown, Ohio, plant of the Carnegie Steel Co., accepting a call to become pastor of the Beaver Falls Hungarian Presbyterian Church the following year. He stayed in this congregation for five years when, in 1927, he was elected pastor of the Pittsburgh Reformed Church, which he served for 25 years. Upon the resignation of the Overseer of the Aged at the Bethlen Home Rev. Varga was elected to fill this vacancy on January 1, 1952, since which time he and his wife have been working with our aged people faithfully. Rev. and Mrs. (Magda Schaudeck) Varga have three sons: Andrew, director of a divers’ education school in Pittsburgh and also connected with a bonding company; Lieutenant J.G. Louis, Jr. of the U.S. Navy, a graduate of St. Vincent College; and George, a sophomore at Slippery Rock State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. Rev. Louis Varga, Overseer of the Old Peoples Home. Members of the Board of Managers of the Bethlen Home, in 1956.
