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Services set for late, Atchison religious leader

By Brian Hagen

04/03/2023

(KAIR)--A longtime Atchison religious leader has died.

The Reverend Robert Ziegler, who long oversaw Atchison's Trinity Lutheran Church, died Sunday. He was 88-years-old.

According to a social media post from the Church, Ziegler died following the church's 8:00 Sunday morning service. According to members of the church, Ziegler suffered a medical emergency around 9:10 Sunday morning, and was transported for hospital care.
However, the congregation, during a prayer service later that morning, around 10:40, received word of Ziegler's death.

Although a full obituary is not yet released, services for Ziegler have been established by the Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home, in Atchison.

According to the funeral home, the service will be Tuesday morning at 10:00 at the Trinity Lutheran Church, in Atchison.

Visitation will be Monday evening, from 5 until 8:00, at the Trinity Lutheran School Gymnasium.

Pastor Ziegler will lie in state at the church, from 9:00 Tuesday morning, until the time of service.

Ziegler began his long-term service to Atchison's Trinity Lutheran Church in 1969. About 3-years later, in 1972, Ziegler began his weekly radio ministry on what is now KAIR 93.7 FM.

In 2009, the year that marked Pastor Ziegler completing 50-years in the ministry, an interview was conducted with Ziegler by Kevin Page, Trinity Lutheran Church member and Professor of Journalism at Benedictine College. With the permission of Page, we include that interview here.

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