{"id":495,"date":"2014-06-23T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T16:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/church-seeks-help-in-honoring-its-past\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:55:42","slug":"church-seeks-help-in-honoring-its-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/church-seeks-help-in-honoring-its-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Church seeks help in honoring its past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>As Kent Lutheran Church prepares to celebrate its 125th anniversary this fall, a search is under way for extended members of the founding families so they can be property recognized during the festivities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The public is being asked to help in the search by contacting the church with any information they may have relative to those descendants of the following: Nils Barnes, Ole Oie, Louis Lee and Charles Ramstead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Other charter members included Ove Quam, Magnus Peterson, John Berg, E. M. Berg, Hans Hougen, Thomas Thompson, Zakarias Swanson and E. G. Westerdal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The 125th anniversary celebration begins in August and continues through January with special dinners and worship events marking special dates in the life of the church.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Those with information about these families are asked to contact the church at 253-852-2057 or KLCoffice@KentLutheran.org.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kent Lutheran Church prepares to celebrate its 125th anniversary this fall, a search is under way for extended members of the founding families so they can be property recognized during the festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}