Lester Mondale
The Reverend Robert Lester Mondale (May 28, 1904 – August 19, 2003) was an American Unitarian minister and Humanist.
Biography
Mondale was born in
S.T.B. from Harvard Divinity School.[3] He was ordained by the New North Unitarian Church, Hingham, Massachusetts, and went on to serve congregations in Evanston, Illinois, Kansas City, Missouri; Birmingham, Michigan; White Plains, New York; Tempe, Arizona; and Quincy, Illinois. His younger half-brother was Walter Mondale, Vice President of the United States under Jimmy Carter
.
He was married three times. From his first wife, Edith Eldred Klose, he had one daughter, Tarand Elose Mondale Swenstad.[4] From his second wife, Fay A. Smead, he had three daughters: Ellen Smead Mondale, Karen Smead Mondale and Julia Smead Kellum Mondale Jensen.[5][6] He married his third wife, Rosemary Delap, on May 31, 1961.
Selected publications
- The Missouri still runs wild, Westport Pub. Co. (Kansas City, MO) 1943
- Three Unitarian philosophies of religion, Beacon Press (Boston) 1946
- The Unitarian way of life, Beacon Press (Boston) 1943
- Values in world religions, Starr King Press 1958
- Preachers in Purgatory With Reference to Accounts of More Than a Hundred Ministers Reporting on Crisis Situations, Beacon Press 1966
- New Man of Religious Humanism, Volturna Press 1973
References
- ^ "Ancestry World Tree Project". Retrieved 2006-12-22.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Unitarian Universalist Ministers 2003 - 2004". Archived from the original on 2006-12-21. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
- ^ Schafer, Ed (February 18, 1977). "Lester Mondale Treasures Privacy". The News and Courier. Charleston, SC. pp. 16–A. Archived from the original on April 16, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
- ^ "Tarand Elose". ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "ELLEN MONDALE Obituary (2019) - The Washington Post". legacy.com. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "Fay A. Smead 1907-1976". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
External links
- Press release announcing his death
- The Human Infinite by Mondale
- Beyond the Ten Commandments by Mondale.
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