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WE ARE a
leaving a
legacy.
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we are Legacy Partners Rosemary Eversh
Rex & Peggy Fairfield
Arnold & Marilyn
Fichtenberg
Al & Margie FiedlerRiendeau
Robert Fisher
Laura Fritzh
Tyler Gillh
Ken & Marie Bailey
Laura Gohrmanh
John Bleyh
Don and Donna Bresemann Ken & Molly Gross
Jim & LaVonne Heitmann
Arther G. Carlsonh
Reverend John & Mary
Helen J. Carlsonh
Kaye Hergert
I. Katherine Chewh
Mike Holder
Janice Dick
Mark Jackson
John and Sally Duenow
Gary & Elinor Johnson
Maynard W. Eashh
Legacy Partners leave
Lutherhaven in their estate or
life insurance plans. hLegacy
Partners whose gifts are
already hard at work for your
camp.
META'S LEGACY
Meta Malzacher was 101 when
she first learned Camp Lutherhaven needed a new dining hall,
so she put a $150,000 “Challenge
Bequest” in her will to positively
encourage others to give to the
half-million dollar long-awaited
renovation. “But you don’t get it
until I die,” she reminded us with
a twinkle in her eye.
Meta Carstens Malzacher was
born in the summer of 1900
in Reardan, Washington. She
graduated from Reardan High and
Washington State College in Pullman. Headlining in the November
1, 1920 edition of The Evergreen,
the college’s daily newspaper,
was the Cougar’s “whitewash” of
Montana, 31-0, and the election of Warren G. Harding as US
President. In the want ads there’s
a gramophone and “good hard
cider” for sale. There’s also a
small line in the Society section
under Kappa Alpha Theta sorority:
Meta Carstens weekending at her
Reardan home.
Meta loved English and history,
teaching high school in Winthrop,
WA. She had a keen business
sense, too, serving as superintendent of Okanogan School District.
Meta loved music and played
piano and organ at church; (when
she eventually settled in Spokane she was a member at Christ
Lutheran.) Her late husband,
John, played violin, and among
their kids’ favorite memories was
listening to their parent’s piano/
violin duets.
Margaret N. Johnson
Virginia E. Jonesh
Don Kauffman
Doug & Bobbi Kindred
Carl P. Langh
Kenneth P & Margaret J.
Leaf
Glen Leitz
Beverly Lenzh
Herman Lusth
Meta Carstens Malzacherh
Candace McIsaach
Lenore G. Meyersh
Reverend Bob & Marlys
Newcomb
Mabel Norgardh
Paul Olson
Meta believed in living positively
and always looked forward, never
backward. She loved children,
travel, and learning new things. In
fact, in her later years, when her
care facility first got computers,
Meta was – no surprise – the first
to sign up for lessons.
With Meta’s $150,000 expectancy
for the future dining hall not
exactly “in hand,” but pledged,
Lutherhaven went to the M.J.
Murdock Trust in Vancouver, WA,
and asked them to match it. They
did! From there, fund-raising
steam-rolled, and the project
Meta launched was underway.
Did we mention Meta loved life?
By the time she went to be with
Jesus in the summer of 2003, at
103 ½, the new Lutherhaven Dining Hall her generosity triggered
was already in use!
And she wasn’t done. We’re not
certain, but we think there was
more to that twinkle in Meta’s
eye than people maybe knew. A
year after she passed away, we
got word of a Charitable Remainder Trust she’d set up with the
InFaith Community Foundation of
Minneapolis. The trust will send
Lutherhaven a check every year
for, at Meta’s request, “upkeep
and new building projects.” And
as it’s invested, Meta’s trust in
and for Lutherhaven will continue
to grow … forever.
Well done, good and faithful servant! Thanks for investing in kids!
Reverend Karl & Margaret
Petzke
Greg & Doreen Preuss
Louise Rudyh
Beatrice Scheele
Don & Maxine Schierman
Rick and Barb Schroeder
Otto & Shirley Stevens
Scott & Theresa Stewart
Bruce & Marilyn Sweeneyh
Mark & Cindy Thompson
Henry & Alma Treedeh
Cliff & Ronni Tvedten
Esther Wagnerh
Bertha Washburnh
Marie Webb
Al Wutzkeh
20% of all bequests
go right now to special
needs, projects and
programs. The other 80%
is invested in perpetuity
forever!
Each year the ministry may
designate 4% of the Endowment Fund for special
projects, leaving the rest
to grow.
Our goal: A $10 million
Endowment — contributing $400,000 each year for
special endeavors.