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The funeral for a Lutheran seminarian from
the Midwest killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti will be on
Saturday in Decorah in northeast Iowa.


      Twenty-five-year-old Ben Larson was a graduate of Luther College
in Decorah and a Wartburg Theological Seminary student in Dubuque.
His body was recovered from the collapsed St. Joseph's Home for
Boys in Port-au-Prince.


      Larson was in Haiti with his wife and cousin with the
Evangelical Lutheran Church. They escaped the building, but Larson
was trapped.

      Larson is a La Crosse, Wis., Central High School graduate. His
parents live in Duluth, Minn.


      His funeral will be at 1 p.m. at First Lutheran Church in
Decorah with burial in Phelps Cemetery in Decorah.


      Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah is making the
arrangements.

      Information from: KOEL-AM, http://www.koel.com
      
      (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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