{"id":3242,"date":"2015-11-16T07:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T12:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2015-11-16T07:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T12:32:48","slug":"faith-with-a-face-dick-and-mary-koehler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"Faith with a Face &#8211; Dick and Mary Koehler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/KOEHLER-RICHARD-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3244 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/KOEHLER-RICHARD-3-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"KOEHLER-RICHARD-3\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/KOEHLER-RICHARD-3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/KOEHLER-RICHARD-3-156x195.jpg 156w, https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/KOEHLER-RICHARD-3.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Dick and Mary Koehler had been married for 3 years when Dick got a call. \u201cYou\u00a0got the job!\u201d It was 1961 and they were thrilled that Dick had landed the position as the\u00a0English and Latin teacher at Badger High School. They packed up and moved to Lake\u00a0Geneva from western Wisconsin, where Dick taught at Badger for the next 32 years\u00a0before retiring. Mary worked as a nurse and they watched their 2 children grow.\u00a0St. Francis de Sales Parish became a part of their lives when they moved to this\u00a0community, and they have always been dependable volunteers. Dick served as a lector\u00a0and acolyte, Mary as an EMOC and Catholic Daughter (Mary has been a member of\u00a0CDA for 50 years!) Dick taught religious education at SFDS and was a consultant on the\u00a0school board for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. They were both on the fundraising\u00a0committee to build the parish center. Currently they bring communion to nursing homes\u00a0together.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 22 years they have organized and run the Card Marathon, an\u00a0opportunity for people to get together and play bridge and 500. They take turns hosting\u00a0in each other\u2019s homes, and there are 9 flights. Sponsored by the Catholic Daughters of\u00a0America, it raises funds to be able to give a $1000 scholarship to a Badger High School student every year. \u201cBridge is\u00a0our passion. This gives people a chance to have a group to play cards with that they might not be able to get together on\u00a0their own,\u201d said Mary.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Mary and Dick, for sharing your passion, your faith, and your talents over the years and for making St.<br \/>\nFrancis de Sales \u201cyour spiritual home\u201d! You are very much appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick and Mary Koehler had been married for 3 years when Dick got a call. \u201cYou\u00a0got the job!\u201d It was 1961 and they were thrilled that Dick had landed the position as the\u00a0English and Latin teacher at Badger High School. They packed up and moved to Lake\u00a0Geneva from western Wisconsin, where Dick taught at Badger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-with-a-face","category-new-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfdslg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}