Records in the series comprise additional correspondence, budget information, reports, bequests and other information pertaining to estates, a title, plats, insurance policies, and treasurer's and finance committee reports related to various financial aspects of operation of the Deaconess Community of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA). The budgets are for the communities' immediate predecessor the Lutheran Deaconess House and School (LDHS), as well as the Deaconess Community and the Mary J. Drexel Home of this period. Budget information for 1968 is missing. Some of the budgets include expenditures arranged by units: the "Baltimore" unit and the "Philadelphia" unit. In the budget folder is supplemental information used for budgeting. Some records pertain to deaconesses on the cooperative plan, where what would have been the deaconesses salary was paid directly to the community and the community provided living expenses for the deaconesses, and the salary plan, where the institution that employed the deaconess paid her a salary. Of note is the correspondence pertaining to the sale of the motherhouse property at 6901 N. Charles St, Baltimore, Md., disposition of some of the fixtures in the motherhouse, appraisal of the property, offers to purchase the property, and arrangements to sell the property to the buyer. Another folder has information about a rental property in Brooklyn, New York, owned by the community. One folder in this series pertains to the disbursement of funds in an earlier established "Deaconess Withdrawal Fund" which provided sisters with funds in the event they resigned. There are also folders of information about bequests given during this period. Correspondence of the treasurer of the deaconess community, Stephen E. McLoughlin, Jr., are also found. Mr. McLoughlin's correspondence relates primarily to two subjects: investments for the Baltimore Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse and School, and the sale of a property at 6315 N. 36th Street, Omaha, Nebraska, part of the Endowment Fund for the Omaha sisters.
