GAPA Chicago Memorial to Our Dearly Departed Members

GAPA Chicago In Memoriam

To All Our Dearly Departed Members, Family Members & Friends!

Is it a given that everyone passing from this life into the next goes right up to the Great Oktoberfest in the Sky? If so, why did God send His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us!

Among the spiritual insights of the German mystic,

Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerich:

"The poor souls (or lost souls: those with no one to pray for them) in purgatory suffer inexpressibly (from despair)."

"Many stay a long time in purgatory who, although not great sinners, have lived tepidly."

"There is a strong link between the holy souls in heaven and their descendants here on earth, lasting even centuries."

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forget our dearly GAPA departed!

cendants here on earth, lasting even centuries.

Mike Haas at gravesite of Casper Lauer at

St. Boniface German Catholic Cemetery.

Our dearly departed GAPA members, family members and friends may still need our prayers. If we forget them, who will remember us!

Pray for our GAPA Dearly Departed!

Chuck Pinkerton (Philly GAPA) & Roger Haas (GAPA Chicago) join hands!

"The living can help their dearly departed loved ones in the afterlife through prayer. The souls of the departed can receive solace through the Eucharist, prayer and almsgiving. The belief that prayer can reach into the afterlife--in which our affection for one another continues beyond the limits of death--has been a fundamental conviction of Christianity throughout the ages, and it remains a source of comfort today. Our prayers for the deceased can assist in their purification and are never too late, nor are they ever in vain!"

(Pope Benedict XVI, from Spe Salvi, November, 2007)

National Law Enforcement Memorial Wall

Rich Adorjan, John Schuld, John Huinker & Roger Haas

National Law Enforcement Memorial in D.C.

GAPA's Pat Duckhorn, 1st Vice President, Illinois State Fraternal Order of Police

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National Law Enforcement Memorial Wall in D.C.

Casper Lauer Inscription

Larry Vincent Inscription

Casper Lauer
Larry Vincent
Tom Taylor
Joan Spicer
Erna Braun
Elizabeth Sebastian
Donald Swinkle
Karl Laschet
Blanch Bohling
Nora Bradley
Jack Groth
Bernard Kuhlmann
Helen Heerdt
Gertrude Kirchens
Anne Hundrieser
Gloria Gleason
Herb Litz
John Bagans
Dietmar Sadowski
Terry Menzyk
Marge Frank
Craig Kohler
Sophie Drewniak
Paul Blaney
Dick St. John
Virginia St, John
Else Diedler
Frederick Lowe, Sr.
Clara Schaefer
Anna Haas
Michael Haas
Ludwig Duenstl
Lydia Duenstl
Mary Hadle
Donna Luecker

The Metro Club's

Beppo Koestenberger

Ernest Tuchowski

Janice Martin

Eleanor Altergott

Daniel Thun

Andrew Hoffman

John Neumann

John Kessel

Walter Kelly

Helen Griesch

Maurice Thoele

Mary Schmit

Bruce Hicks

Genevieve Sleichert

Ann Volkl

Frank Kracher

Robert Watts

Adeline Kelly

Patricia Anderson

Florence Danielson

Rose Enk

Chester Brandt

Marcia Baldree

Linda Zaragoza

Barbara Adorjan

Carolyn Zickenheiner

Herb Schreiber

Ed Hundrieser

Albert Puhr

Gerald Koch

Virginia Dudek

Bill Haack

Colleen Schober

Gerhard Stadler, Sr.

Heinz Wieland, Sr,

Jerry Koch & his vintage WWII Jeep was always a

highlight at past GAPA picnics!

Vietnam Wall Memorial in D.C.

Kenneth Haas Inscription

John Kessel, We miss ya!

John Enk

David Paul

Rosemary DeChristopher

Angelo DeChristopher

Richard Howe

Gertrude Johnson

Josephine Griebahn

Ernie Rothmund

Edward Haas

Joan Gustafson

Frank Kajari

Frankie Kajari

William Adams

Nancy Pemberton

Roberta Williams

Siegfriend Manke

Judy Goga

The Rothmunds

Pat, "Grandma Lucky" & Ron

Franz Kokott Sr

Heinz Kokott

Guenther Siegel

Syril June Schloss

Rolf Northfell

Gladys Boose

Ernst Kresen

James Gartner

Harry Formanski

Bernadine Theis

Ann Schoenemann

Harry Obermeier

Harry Waechter

Joseph Krieger

Beppo Koestenberger

John Coughlin

John Enk

Norm Hick

Arthur Haack

Manford Cousee

Reinhold Schoemann

Angelo DeChristopher

Phillip "Dutch" Neaveill

Alphonse Mazur

Suze Holzinger

Pat Rothmund

Rick Wagner

Bob Trausch

Glen Trausch

Gina (Trausch) Kawell

Rudy Deimer

David Bahr

Army Sgt Wesley Wells-KIA Iraq

Donald Theis

Rich Stubbe

            Catherine Jacobs

           Kevin Fleischhacker

        Georg Hunger

              Kenneth Haas, KIA-Vietnam

        Melburn Haas

         Ernie Rothmund

       John Petry Sr.

        Joe Krieger

         Frank Graszer

         Simon Krischak

Founding President Norbert Hozinger with wife

Mary Ellen

Horst Zickenheiner

Chuck Carlson

Richard Schaefer

Dennis Schaefer

Ronald Schulz

Edward Gieres

Donna Kelly

Norma Kurtzner

Kurt Stubbe

Fred Griesch

John Grizzoffi

Horst Zickenheiner

Bob Hofbauer

Don Stephens

Danny Green

Anni Koestenberger

Clara Taylor

Pat Glunz

William Johnson

Walter Repsch

Lorraine Koehler

Terry Griebahn

Ron Rothmund

Stephanie Hrynewcyz

Father Richard Pistole

Terri Volkl

Carl Zoch

Hermann Gless (Unterheimbach,Germany)

Tom Schmidt,

Ya did good things for us!

Terri Volkl (bottom center), a great GAPA gal with

hubby George (left) & Volkl family!

Terry Griebahn

Carl Turek

Barbara Asbach

Marie Kwasnicki

Leona Sonne

Lucy Westerby

Burt Johnson

Walter Kruppok

Esther Davis

Bob Gablin Sr.

Monroe Vollick

Henry Shurman

Dennis Schaefer

Margaret Marie

Harold Schulz

Ewald Thun

Dave Bahr

Rick Wagner

Arthur Carney

Bob Powell

Bob Frenzel

Esther Schuld

Tom Schmidt

Tom Slowinski

Hans Scharl

Margaret Bickel

Mel Itter

Norbert Holzinger, Founding President

Mike Slepecevich/ "Mike Lukas"

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Rudy Daimer

If your dearly departed GAPA member, family member or friend is not listed here, and you wish to add him/her to our intentions list, contact me at the below email address.

Mike Haas, GAPA Web Meister.

gapabrennpunkt@aol.com