The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-03-01 / 3. szám
March, 1081 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 15 REV. DR. ARTHUR AUREL LUDWIG 1909 — 1981 Rev. Dr. Arthur Aurel Ludwig was born on January 10, 1909, in Pozsony, Hungary, now called Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, part of Czechoslovakia. He passed away on February 24, 1981. Funeral services were held on Saturday, February 28, at 2 p.m. at the Indiana Harbor First Hungarian Evangelical Reformed Church with Bishop Dr. Dezső Parragh and Bishop Dr. John Biitösi officiating and a special memorial mass was offered by Father Alfonse Skerl at the Holy Trinity Hungarian Catholic Church Survivors: his wife, Elvira Piroska; two sons, Aurel Ludwig East Chicago and Rev. Kálmán Karl Ludwig pastor of the Whitting Hungarian Reformed Church. Three daughters: Dr. Piroska Szabó of Long Island, N. Y., Zora Valeria Kovács of East Chicago, and Irene Ludwig of Denver, Colorado and five grandchildren. Rev. Ludwig was the pastor of the First Hungarian Evangelical and Reformed Church of Indiana Harbor, East Chicago, Indiana for the last 23 years. He received the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio in 1957, working in the factory during day time and going to school at nights. He received a Doctorate Degree in Law and Political Science in 1939 at the University of Pozsony. He strongly believed that faith and love must be expressed in action. As a refugee in Austria for four and a half years and especially during the first years of his life in the United States, which he entered as a displaced person in 1950 with his wife, five children and extremely meager worthy belongings, he experienced the goodness and generosity of many warm hearted people, who provided food, clothing, medical care and offered loans to this immigrant family who spoke no English. Within the last twenty years he truly fulfilled the message: “Cost a loaf of bread upon the waters and it shall be returned to you one hundred-fold.” He sponsored, found lodging and jobs for over 110 refugees from Hungary, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria. He was active in many circles, he touched many, many lives as a pastor or a friend or just an other human-being. He was the President of the American Hungarian Reformed Ministerial Association; copresident of the American Hungarian Reformed Presbyter’s Association; Dean of the Western Classis, of Calvin Synod, U.C.C.; Section Manager of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. His interest in his heritage caused him to actively support or take part in many Hungarian organizations; Árpád Academy of Cleveland, Ohio; Board of Director Magyar Club of Chicago; Polish-Hungarian Federation; Hungarian Association of Cleveland; ITT-OTT Hungarian Friends Society. All through his life-time he was active in the Scout Movement. He attended many Scout Jamboree in Hungary, Canada and U.S., presently he was on the Advisory Board of the Boy Scouts of America. He was active in many local organizations. In 1977 he received an award for Outstanding Service to the Community from the Lake County Women’s Council and an Award for Outstanding Service to the County from the Lake County AFL-CIO Central Labor Union. REV. ZOLTÁN KOVÁCS assumed the pastorate of the Hungarian Reformed Church of Flint, Michigan. He was pastor at Homestead, Pennsylvania Hungarian Reformed Church. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. Dean of the Central Classis of the Calvin Synod, U. C. C. MRS. EDITH KOVÁCS, wife of Reverend Paul Kovács administrator of the Bethlen Nursing Home in Ligonier, Pa., received her diploma of B. S. in Dietetics in December, 1980 at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. — Congratulations! Mrs. Kovács was born in Sopron and raised in Budapest, Hungary. She is now the Food Service Supervisor at the Bethlen Home. NAMES IN THE NEWS:— REV. DÉNES TAMÁS has taken over the pastorate in February at the Free Magyar Reformed Church of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He was pastor of the Hungarian Reformed U.C. C. Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
