Deceased Personnel Files 1884-2003

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Deaconess Community of the ELCA. Deceased Personnel Files 1884-2003

Deceased Personnel Files 1884-2003

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71054755

This series comprises individual personnel files for consecrated deaconesses of the Deaconess Community of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its predecessor communities: The Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses, the Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse and Training School, Baltimore, Maryland, the Immanuel Deaconess Motherhouse and Training School, and the Deaconess Community of the Lutheran Church in America. It is important to note that there are no files in this series for women who entered the deaconess program after 1987. All of the files represent consecrated deaconesses who died between 1884-2003. Records that comprise the files date from 1884-2003 and include a variety of records types. There is correspondence between the deaconess and motherhouse and its leadership, completed applications to the communities, news clippings, letters of recommendations, biographical sketches, educational transcripts, legal correspondence related to estates, copies of wills, diaries, travel diaries, additional biographical material, and orders of service for investitures and consecrations, among others. The bulk of the records is correspondence. The deaconess communities filed their copies of correspondence they sent to a deaconess, as well as correspondence she sent to the community, into her personnel file.

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