ARTHUR STADEM TRIBUTE

Arthur Stadem died youth, in his early twenties, in a tragic plane crash. Sixty One years have passed for us in the family since Arthur D. Stadem's departure from this earth to heaven (no one has the slightest doubt, who knew him, that he was heaven-bound, even in his early youth and early manhood) in the sudden plane crash January 9, 1947. To commemorate him better, his page has been worked on, so that it has pictures, and more will be added.

Please check out this page, for it tells about a most remarkable person. He, unlike many people, was a man of few words.

Calvin Coolidge was such a person. One woman wagered with another that she could get him to say more than two words. She told the President about this wager. "You lose," he remarked.

Papa and Mama's first son, Arthur Donald Stadem, was, indeed, quiet, but his life spoke volumes about the Lord and the great love he had for Him from his earliest boyhood.

As his school records, exams, and teachers' comments testify, he progressed upwards toward excellence in all he did. It was his faith in God that motivated him, we believe. With that same faith, he could not help but honor his beloved parents. He did everything to make their existence more happy and secure, and earned the pride they had in their fine, faithful son. He strove to do his best in order to be a pleasing savor, so to speak, to God his Creator and Savior. How few young people have that attitude? Know any? He definitely was such. With his money he saved from the service in the Navy during the Second World War, he bought land for his parents, to enlarge their means of livelihood.

Truly, he was like an angel among us--and his memory today is still deeply cherished by his surviving sisters and brother, not to mention his nephews and nieces.

"Winter's Child," A Tribute to Arthur D. Stadem, by Grateful Nephew Ronald Ginther

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PLAIN VIEW FARM, THE MUSICAL DRAMA, By Ronald Ginther

Paul Rangen, a beloved cousin who went Home to Heaven in 2000, signed our guestbook more than once and expressed his appreciation of the Plain View Farm websites. But Paul is even more a blessing since then! I found that out unexpectedly re-reading a letter he had sent out to the whole relationship four months before his Homegoing. He was telling about how his hope, at the point of vanishing, was unexpectedly revived by a radio testimony from the very same station where he worked. He had collapsed on the way from church, been taken to Intensive Care at the hospital, and the letter describes what happened as he desperately needed a touch from God to revive his spirits--and how God came through for him. This letter did not minister to me in 2000 like it did just a few days ago, when I found myself in different circumstances (not in a hospital with lung disease) but a situation that seemed hopeless and with no way of it turning better. Maybe others can identify with this. If you can, or desperately need a touch from God, and are praying but seemingly not being heard, please link to Paul Rangen's letter. When friends and family fail you, when even God doesn't seem to be listening, here is an opportunity for "God to make a way where there seems to be no way."

Paul Rangen's Letter, April 8, 2000

This wonderful school for the education of Christian young people and their training for Christian service, introducing many to the Salvation found only in Jesus Christ the Only Begotten Son of God, was closed, but the vision that undergirded this school was not terminated, even the doors closed to the physical school and the buildings converted to other uses. What happens to this godly vision, given by God? God knows. We can think of how a prized antique or collectable car can be mothballed, with its wheels removed and the frame set upon supports and then shut away in a warehouse for long years. Did this happen to the Vision of Augustana Academy bequeathed to us by our godly, Godfearing forefathers of Scandinavian descent? I don't think so. The Vision was too precious to be mothballed, it went back to God who birthed it in the first place. Perhaps he awarded it to other saints, who then raised up another school where the Holy Spirit could have His way? Eternity will tell us what happened. We don't know what exactly happened with the grand Vision, but we do know the grand effect Augustana Academy had on all of us who were privileged to attend this school.

"Why Augustana Academy Closed," a View by Ronald Ginther

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