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Funeral set for Saturday for Duluth pastors' son who died in Haiti quake

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Benjamin Larson
In this undated photo provided by First Lutheran Church photo via the Duluth News Tribune, Benjamin Larson, the youngest child of Rev. April Ulring Larson, senior pastor at First Lutheran Church in Duluth, Minn. and the Rev. Judd Larson, interim pastor at Our Savior?s Lutheran Church in Duluth, Minn. is seen. Ben is believed to have been killed in the earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010.
AP Photo/First Lutheran Church via the Duluth News Tribune

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.

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

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Benjamin Larson
In this undated photo provided by First Lutheran Church photo via the Duluth News Tribune, Benjamin Larson, the youngest child of Rev. April Ulring Larson, senior pastor at First Lutheran Church in Duluth, Minn. and the Rev. Judd Larson, interim pastor at Our Savior?s Lutheran Church in Duluth, Minn. is seen. Ben is believed to have been killed in the earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010.
AP Photo/First Lutheran Church via the Duluth News Tribune
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