Serving the Church in Other Ways

By Marilyn Kettering Badger

Maple Grove people who have served in special ways and in special places as servants of our Lord

• Gaylord Fisher – Served at Logansport, in State Hospital -
• Harland - Hazel Gortner – Served at Kane, PA forestry camp, at Marion VA State Hospital and at New Windsor, MD forestry camp
• Clayton Keener – Served at Logansport, IN State Hospital

New Windsor Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS)

Conscientious Objectors (CO) – 1-W’s (Alternative Service): (Boys usually did this as an alternative to military service – some had to defend their stand before the draft boards of their county to receive their 1-W status.  Girls usually did it to serve since they were not included in the draft – at that time. Some did not go to BVS and the preparatory training – they just went to their assignment.) Here’s a list:

• Herman Reinke Late 1940’s - Early 1950’s Sea-going cowboy
• George Kettering BVS Unit #23, July 1954 Brethren Service Center.Nappanee, IN
• George Schreiber BVSUnit#25, Dec.1954 Brethren Service Center,Nappanee,IN*Paul Myers BVS Unit 29, Dec.1955 Nappanee, IN & New Windsor, MD
• Ella Lambert Myers  BVS Unit #34, March1956 New Windsor. MD
• Ron Shoup BVS Unit #49, Jan.1961 Brethren Service Center, Nappanee, IN
• David Badger BVS Unit #52, Oct.1961     Disaster Project in British Honduras & Maintenance at Leprosy Hospital, Garkida, Nigeria
• Don Keener BVS Unit #53, Jan.1962 Flood Relief Project, Hamburg Germany, Construction of Retirement Home in Vienna, Austria & Evangelical Lutheran Church Farm at Berlin, Germany
• Merlyn Kettering BVS Unit #68, Oct.1968Brethren Service Center, Nappanee IN & Community Work in Northern Greece
• Robynne Hylton Shores BVS Unit #123,Sep.1976 BridgewaterHome,Bridgewater,VA
• Doug Gilmore BVS Unit 146, July,1980 The Palms, Sebring, FL
• Laura Clark Woolf   BVS Unit #214 1994 Camp Courageous-Monticello, IA
• 1997 - Church of the Brethren Offices Elgin,IL
• Deana Gilmore BVS Unit #210, Jan.1994 Lehman Center, York, PA
• Merle Evel Alternative Service –CO-Nurses Helper – Akron,OH Hospital
• Dan Kettering Alternative Service-CO-1965-67 Helper in hospital at Elyria, OH

Youth Summer Service Work:  1962/1963/1964

Disaster Service Work:

 Shirley Benner            Clyde Benner              Susan Benner              Lawrence Benner  

Marlene Shoup            Delbert Kettering        David Badger

Thank you all for representing us in service.