| Summary: | and raised Red Polled cattle. He passed away Dec. 20, 1943. Sina passed away Feb. 11,1944. They are buried in the Sheyenne Cemetery. Andreas Tangen family Albert 0. Tastad Albert 0. Tastad was born Aug. 30, 1915, Leonard Township, Rolette County, N.D. He came to Pekin, N.D. in September 1956, after accepting a Letter of Call from the Pekin, Sheyenne and Sigdal congregations to be their pastor. Pastor Tastad grew up, together with five brothers and four sisters, on the farm where his father had filed for homestead on April 11, 1902. His father had emigrated from Stavanger, Norway in 1893. His mother, Anna Haugstad, was born at Cummings, N.D. His parents were married in Hillsboro, N.D. Feb. 22,1905. Pastor Tastad graduated from Rolette High School in 1934. It was a difficult time financially so he was not able to go on to school immediately. He worked on his father’s farm and at the Rolette State Bank until he enrolled at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa in 1939. His college years were interrupted by military service in World War II. He was in military service with the 178th Field Artillery from July 1941 to June 1945 and participated in the North African and the Italian Campaigns. He returned to Luther College after his discharge from service, and received his B.A. degree in 1946. He enrolled at Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, and graduated in May 1949. Since graduation he has served as pastor of a Home Mission congregation, Trinity Lutheran, in Lynnwood, Wash. (1949-1953); Lost River, Alaska (1953-1955); Brevig Mission, Alaska (1955-1956); Pekin, Sheyenne and Sigdal Lutheran (1956-1983). Lost River, Alaska also referred to as Tin City because of the tin mine located there, is about 45 miles from the Bering Straight. His ministry there was to Eskimo workers at the mine. When the mine shut down and the Eskimos moved back to their villages, he served for a year at Brevig Mission. He returned to the United States in 1956 and after accepting the Call from the Pekin Parish, he has made his home in Pekin until his retirement on June 1, 1983. He now lives in Rollete, N.D. Albert O. Tastad 902 Scanned with a Czur book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Adobe Acrobat Pro
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