REV. WILLIAM WITTROCK

A memorial service for the Rev. William Wittrock Jr. of Chicago, Ill., formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Hanover Lutheran Church. The Rev. Jeffrey Sippy will officiate.

Funeral service was held Sept. 9 in Newberry Springs, Calif., with burial in Victorville, Calif.

Wittrock, 76, died Thursday, Sept. 3, 1992, at his home.

He was born Oct. 15, 1915, in Alta Vista, Kan., son of the Rev. William and Ella Zweig Wittrock Sr. His father was pastor of Hanover Church from 1928 until his death in 1955.

He attended Trinity Lutheran School, College High School, and Southeast Missouri State University. He had been a salesman with McKesson-Robins Inc. and Johnson and Johnson.

Wittrock and the former Renata Mehl were married Oct. 28, 1939. She died May 12, 1986. He later married Matilda Lange Aug. 12, 1989.

He served in the military from 1942-46, and was appointed as a police officer in the Panama Canal Zone. While there he and his wife were instrumental in founding and organizing a church, which is still flourishing today.

While studying for the ministry at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, he was sales manager at Concordia Publishing House. He was ordained July 31, 1949, into the ministry of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. He pastored 25 years in St. Louis, Chicago, Sherman Oaks and Barstow, Calif. He retired in 1970 because of ill health.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Constance Brown of Hawaii, Sandra Pike of Newberry Springs, Dorcas McCutcheon of Oregon; four sons, William Wittrock III of Newberry Springs, William, Dennis and Gary Lange of Chicago; a brother, Rev. Theodore Wittrock of Katonah, N.Y.; three sisters, Rose Mullins, Viola Medley and Paula Weiss, all of Cape Girardeau; 18 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two children, two brothers and two sisters.