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Third Service Planned for Maynard, Loraine Londborg
EAGAN, MN (October 25, 2004) - A third memorial service has been scheduled for
retired Evangelical Covenant Church pastor and missionary Maynard
Londborg, who died September 5, and also for his wife, Loraine, who died
May 12.
The third service will be at 2 p.m. this coming Saturday, October 30, at
the Mat-Su Covenant Church in Wasilla, Alaska. A second memorial service
will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday, November 7, at the Evangelical
Covenant Church in Eagan with pastor Kendall Carlson officiating. The
first memorial service was conducted October 23 at Covenant Village of
Colorado in Westminster, Colorado.
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.
The Londborgs are survived by four children: Linda, Peter, John and
Elizabeth and their families.
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