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Memorial Service Pending for Maynard Londborg
WESTMINSTER, CO (September 10, 2004) - A memorial services is scheduled to be
held in October for retired Evangelical Covenant Church pastor and
missionary Maynard Londborg, who died Sunday. The service will also
remember Maynard's wife, Loraine, who died on May 12, according to the
family.
Born May 11, 1921, in Lynch, Nebraska, the 83-year-old Londborg had
shared in ministry with his wife for many years, both in mission and
church ministries. He became an ordained Covenant pastor after finishing
his education at both North Park Junior College and North Park
Theological Seminary in Chicago.
The Londborgs – married on March 12, 1945 – were called to serve in
Alaska with the Covenant's Department of World Mission, beginning their
service there in September 1946. They started mission work in Yakutat,
but served primarily at Covenant High School in Unalakleet and nearby
Covenant Children's Home.
Along with his work with the Covenant in Alaska, Maynard Londborg served
an important role for the territory, helping produce a significant
document that helped determine Alaska's future. He and 54 others met
from November 1955 to February 1956 at the University of Alaska in
Fairbanks to write the document (which would determine how the Alaska
Territory would eventually operate as a state following its ratification
in 1959). The group included noted legislative figures such as U.S.
District Judge James
Von der Heydt. But it also included six women and an Alaska Native, a
diversity that was unique to legislative processes of that magnitude
during that era, according to a story documented at www.AKLegislature.com.
In 1966, the Londborgs left Alaska and Maynard taught at Minnehaha
Academy in Minneapolis, Minnesota, until 1976. He was also the chaplain
there. Meanwhile, Loraine, a graduate of Swedish Covenant Hospital's
nursing program after having attended North Park, was assistant nursing
supervisor at Augustana Nursing Home in Minneapolis.
The Londborgs headed to Little Falls, Minnesota, in 1976, where Maynard
served as pastor of Grace Covenant Church and chaired the ministerial
association for the
Northwest Conference. The couple's ministry of hospitality was an
important part of their ministry in Little Falls, stated daughter Linda
in a recent obituary for her mother.
In 1985, the Londborgs returned to Alaska and the couple helped start
church planting ministries in Anchorage and Palmer (Mat-Su Covenant
Church). After retirement in 1990, the Londborgs stayed in Alaska until
1998 when they moved to Colorado. They most recently had attended
Heritage Community Bible Church, a Covenant congregation in Arvada.
Maynard still had involvement in Alaska, however, serving on the staff
for the Amundsen Educational Center in Soldotna for a time.
Preceded in death by his wife, Londborg is survived by four children:
Linda, Peter, John and Elizabeth and their families. More information
concerning the memorial service for the Londborgs will be posted in this
online Covenant news report at www.covchurch.org as it becomes available.
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