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The Exterior Of Bethany Lutheran Home...takes shape at Elliott Street and North Broadway. Construction workers have now moved inside of the building and are eyeing an early spring completion of the facility. The light-colored concrete structure is…

Chatting With Electricians...inside a nursing station on the first floor of he new Bethany Home is administrator, Mel Fickenscher. A painter is adding the last coat of paint to the entryway.

Bethany Lutheran Home...will open it's [sic] doors for inspection Sunday. Fifteen Lutheran Churches in the area have spent $2 million getting the nursing home ready. First patients are expected in mid-June.

Food Preparation Center...on second level of Bethany Home is shown by Chuck Berry, food service manager. The all-electric facility has convection ovens.

Presenting The Administrators...is Dr. Arthur J. Seegers, former director of chaplaincy of the American Lutheran Church, at the dedication of the Bethany Lutheran Nursing Home. They are Stanley Nelson, Chairman of the Board; Milford Fickenscher, the…

Plans For Installation...are discussed in the chapel of Bethany Lutheran Home by the Rev. Emil Reinking, chaplain, and Milford Fickenscher, the home's administrator

Discussing Register...at Bethany Lutheran Home which will soon bear the names and location of each resident are Mrs. JoAnn Gohlinghorst, a resident, Frank Ombruni, and Kenneth Christensen.

Photo of man standing, a woman, and man in wheelchair, next to white van with "Bethany Lutheran Home, Council Bluffs Iowa" on the side. [Back of photo dates it at February 1981 and identifies "Mark Anderson, Adm." but Mr. Anderson didn't become…

Mrs. Joseph Nichols...presents the insurance policies to Rev. David Boone, president of the board of directors at the Bethany Lutheran Home, as Done Greene and Mark Anderson, administrator of the home, look on.

Bethany Nursing Home Administrator, M. Sue Mortensen, admires preliminary architectural drawings of a 60-unit apartment building for senior citizens to be built behing the nursing home.

Bethany Lutheran Home
Elliott St. & Broadway

photo of Bethany Presbyterian Church, 1900 So. 7th St.

Reading Inscriptions...on foundation of first manse are Mrs. W.C. Van Leuvan, 2210 11th St., and the Rev. Moore Bell.

Discussing memorabilia...of Bethany United Presbyterian Church's past 75 years are Jack Fernley, chairman for the obsevration; Elmer Shipley, who will provide a slide presentation and display and the Rev. David Grimm, pastor.

Bethany Presbysterian Church
1900 S. 7th St.

Pastoral Couple...the Rev. and Mrs. John L. Malloy look over the charred interior of their new charge, Bethel AME Church. The fire obviously originated in the pulpit area of the sanctuary.

Exterior Of Church...shows hole in roof from the fire and most of the windows were broken out due to the tremendous heat of the blaze.

New House Of Worship...for the Bethel AME congregation is located at 413 N. 23rd St.

Admiring New Sanctuary...of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church are the Rev. and Mrs. John L. Malloy. The new church will be dedicated with a special service at 3 p.m. this Sunday.
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