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Mrs. Carl E. Buerkle
REV. AND MRS. BUERKLE
. HONORED ON GOLDEN
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
UNDAY mom ing, July 18, the Golden
Wedding Anniversary of Rev. and
Mrs. Carl E . Buedde was obse rved at
F lint Park Methodist Church, Flint,
where Mr. Buerkle is pastor. District
S upel'intendent Arthur D. Klontz had
charge of the service and spoke on
"Fifty Golden Years." The church was
filled w ith members and friends who had
come to honor the pastor and his wife.
At t he close of the service there was an
informal pet·iod of s inging, dm·ing which
t ime Ml'. Edward J. Vial\, mayot· of
F lint, spoke and gave some poe ms of hi s
own composition. Dinne r was se rved in
the church base ment to 140.
Mr. and Mrs. Bue rkle held open hou se
in the afternoon with 150 attending. The
church members gave a generous put·se
to the honored coup le and other gifts
wet·e received f t·om friends and m em ber s of the family. Many attended from
other churches t hat t he Buerkles had
se t·ved in former years .
The three sons of l\lt·. and l\[rs.
Buerkle, Carl B. of Urbana, Ohio; J..
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Herbert of Indianapolis, I nd.; and William W . of Flint; were present but their
daughtet·, l\hs. Pet·s io Wagner of
Urbana, Ohio, was unable to attend hecause of illn ess. Mt·s . Buedde's s ister s
and brothers, l\lt·s. Chal'les Beeker, Mrs.
Sarah Shumaker, George, Raym ond and
Adam Marti, all of Saginaw, attended.
i\Ir. Bue rkle ha s been a member of the
Centra l German and the Detroit Confere nces for 50 yem·s and s ince r etireme nt,
four years ago, has continued to serve.
H e received hi s college tra ining at
Baldwin-Wallace Univers ity, B e r ea
Ohio, and during his 5t1 yea rs of set·vic~
in the ministry has se rved the following
churches : Kochville, Mich.; Monroeficld,
Ohio; New Knoxville, Ohio; Pomerov
Ohio; Mal'ion, Ohio; Allegheny Cit~,;
Ohio; Bucy rus , Ohio; Pittsb urg h, Pa.;
Ha~ilton, Ohio; Akron, Ohio; Pigeon,
Sagmaw Tus cola Street, and F lint Parle
Whi le pastor at Bucyrus he built one of
the finest churches in the conference.
REV. CARL E. BUERKLE died suddenly .Dec. 17. He was serving as pastor
at .Fhnt. P ark Chut·ch, Flint, a lthough
~·etn·ed s tnce ~945. The funeral was held
111 the Kochvtlle Chut:£11 , Saginaw . December 20. l:>cc;. . 3>~ , 1 'i'if . '
RS. Mary Ann Buerkle, wife of the
late Rev. Carl E . Buerlde, died
August 15, 1960, in Saginaw General
Hos pital.
She was born north of
Saginaw in Kochville Township on
July 18, 1881. On
July 20, 1898, she
was m a r r i e d to
her pastor, Mr.
Buerkle, who was
ser ving the Kochv i 11 e Methodist
Church , h i s f ir st
charge. She was
the organist of the
church.
1\'Irs. Buerkle
They were mem b er s of the Central
German Conference serving in Ohio and
Pennsylvania. In 1929 they moved to
Michigan s erving Pigeon, Tuscola Street,
Saginaw, and in Flint, Bristol Road and
F lint Park until Mr. Buerkle's death
December 17, 1948.
I n 1954 Mrs . Buerkle m oved to Urbana,
Ohio, home of h er daughter, Mrs. Hoy
W. Wagner of 430 Lafayette Avenue.
She wa s an active member of the
U1·bana Method ist Church, WSCS and
Sunday s chool class. She was visiting
relatives in Saginaw where s he died
after a two-week ill ness.
Survivors besid es her daughter in cl ude one son, William W. of St. Paul,
Minn.; four grandchildren and four
g rea t-grandchildren; two brothers,
George and Raymond Marti ; and one
s ister , Mrs . Charles Beeker a ll of Saginaw. Two sons predeceased her, Carl
in 1958 and Luering Herbert in 1959.
Memol'ial services were held in the
Kochville Methodis t Church, with Rev.
Joseph Ablett and Rev. Ralph Simester
of Urbana, Ohio, officiating. Burial took
place in the Kochville Cemetery w hich
p lot had been donated tQ th<l church by
Mrs. Buerkle's pioneer father, Adam
Marti. In li eu of flowers contributions
may be sent t.o the Kochville Methodist
Church Memorial Fund % Rev. Joseph
Ablett, RFD 2, Sagi naw, Michigan.
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Rev. Carl E. Buerkle
By Frank l\1. Field 3~ .ili1'l
VETERAN of fifty-four years in
the Methodist ministry and active
in his beloved work a s a pas tor to the
very last, Rev. Carl E. Buerkle was suddenly called ft-om his labors Friday, December 17, 1948. He wn s in hi s third
year a s pas tor of the Flint Park Methodist Church in Flint and at the time
he was stricken was on his way to the
hospital to visit one of his parishioners.
Although he was retired by the Detroit
Annual Conference in 1945 he continued
to serve actively as a pastor and was as
enthusias tic about his work as when he
I was serving s ome of the lead in g churches in the Central German Conference in
the height of his career.
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Carl E . Buerk le was born in Marbach,
Germany, in 1873 a nd came to the
United States when he was fourteen
years of age. Having had some t raining
as a baker's apprentice in the old country, he worked in a bakery shop in Philadelphia while he was getting his high
school education. While still in his youth
he received a very definite call to the
ministry, impress ed that "man does . not
live by bread alone," a nd feeling t hat
God wanted him not merely to bake
bread but to dispense the "Bread of
Life" in a hungry world. He received
training for the ministry in BaldwinWa ll ace College at Berea, Ohio, and was
\r eceived into the Central German Conference in 1895.
His first pastorate, which began in
December, 1894, was at Kochville Methodist Church, near Saginaw, Michigan.
While servi ng t here he also organized a
congregation at Freeland and led in
building a church, working with his people in manual labor upon the new structure. It was while pastor at Kochville
that he found hi s life long companion
a nd on July 20, 1898, the young pastor
married Mary Ann Marti, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Marti, Saginaw
County pioneers. They celebrated their
golden wedding an niversai-y last July.
Transferred to Ohio in 1898 Mr.
Buerkle served eight pastorates in that
state, with a six-year interlude in the
Ohio Str eet Church, P ittsburgh, ]?a. The
Ohio pas torates were Monroefield, New
Knoxville, Pomeroy, Marion, Bucyrus,
Hamil ton and Akron. At Marion he had
a significant seven year pastorate and
enjoyed a close· personal friendship with
Warren G. Harding, later President of
the United States. An unusua lly successful pas torate at Bucy rus was marked by
the building of a magnificent church
building at a cost of $80,000.
Bishop Raymond .1. Wade, left, congmtulatcs Rev. Carl Ruerl<le on his 50th
anniversary as a Methodist minister.
· The picture was talten in the Bdstol
Church, F lin t, Sunday, November 26,
1944 , at a celebration in honor of the
occasion.
Returning to Michigan in 1929 Mr.
Buerkle served a seven year pastorate at
Pigeon and in 1933 went with his church
into the Detroit Conference by the Cent ral German Conference merger. A six
year pastorate in Tuscola St. Church,
Saginaw, was followed by four years in
the Bristol Church, Flint. Here, in November, 1944, his church and numerous
brother ministers helped him celebrate
the ·r ounding out of fifty year s in the
Methodist ministry. This did not mark
the end of his career, however, for even
though his r etirement age was reached
at the end of that year, he continued to
serve the charge for a yea r as a r etired
s upply and then Flint Park Church ,
Flint, fo r two and one-half years. During
these two pastorates Rev. and Mrs.
Buerkle lived in their own home at 1424
Oak St., Flint.
Besides Mrs. Buerkle, he leaves t h ree
sons, William, at home ; L. Herbert of
Indianapolis, Ind.; Cad, Jr., of Mt. Vernon, Ill. ; and a daughter, Mr s. Hoy W.
Wagner of Urbana, 0.; also a brother,
E. G. Buerkle of Bakersf ield, Cal.
In the Kochville Church, Saginaw,
where Mr. Buerkle began his ministl-y
fifty-four years ago, funeral services
were cond ucted on December 20 by Dr.
Frank M. Field, Saginaw Bay District
Superintendent, who was Mr. Buerkle's
superintendent when he \vas pastor at
Pigeon. Assisting were r epresentatives
of three churches which Mr. Buerkle
had served, Rev. Alfred Huntct· of Kochville, Rev. H. E. Duttweil'er of Pigeon,
and Mr. Harold Karl s of Tuscola St.,
Saginaw. Rev. E. F . Hildebrand offered
prayer at the grave in the Kochvillc
cemetery.
Earlier in the day the many friends
.and fellow pastors in Flint had an opportunity to pay their r espects in a service
in the F lin t Park Church. It was conducted by Dr. Arthur D. Klont z, s uperintendent of the Flint District, a ss isted
by Rev. Ralph Harper of F enton and
Rev. Roy Johns of Flint.