Friends may call from 4 to 9 today at St. John's Lutheran Church in Kimball. A prayer service will be at 8 tonight at the church in Kimball, Minnesota. Arrangements were by Dingmann Funeral Home.

Pastor Ansorge was born August 21, 1909, in Manning, Iowa, to the late Pastor John M. and Gertrude (Heinke) Ansorge, and attended Manning Schools. He was ordained into the ministry on September 4, 1932.

He married Virginia P. Stanke of Webster on June 14, 1940, and began serving his ministry at Zion Lutheran Church in Iona prior to serving as pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Parkers Prairie in 1945. In addition to serving as circuit visitor for a time, he was pastor at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Willmar, from 1956 to 1969, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Baudette, from 1969 to 1976, and became assistant pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in Kimball, and Concordia Lutheran Church in Fair Haven in 1976. He was a former member of Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Minnesota District Boards and Lutheran Island Camp Board.

Survivors include his wife; daughter and sons, Mrs. Robert (Pauline) Kolb, St. Paul; John, Mounds View; Howard, Chicago, Illinois; sister and brothers, Luella, Omaha, Nebraska; Pastor Max, Spirit Lake, Iowa; and Edwin J., Des Moines, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Arthur.

Pallbearers will be Howard Bahn, Kenneth Bruntlett, Ronald Wenzel, Marvin Gutknecht, Dale Maroh, John Betts, and David Triebel.

Memorials are preferred to donor's choice.
St. Cloud Times, Saint Cloud, Minnesota August 19, 1981