Washington Death Index for Tracy, Place of death Thurston.
Vidette Messenger
March 8, 1968 p. 8 Friday
RITES SET HERE FOR DR. STRONG
Memorial services will be held here Saturday for Dr. Tracy Strong, 80, who lived in McCool after his retirement as general secretary of the World Alliance of YMCAs.
Strong died Sunday in Olympia, Wash., where he and his wife, the former Edith Robbins of McCool, had resided since last summer.
Memorial services will be held at 2 pm Saturday in First Presbyterian church. Private burial rites will be held Saturday morning in Robbins cemetery, prior to final services.
In Switzerland
Dr. Strong was with the World Alliance of YMCAs in Geneva, Switzerland, for 35 years.
After his retirement in 1953, he was a consultant for the YMCA and taught four years at the YMCAs George Williams college, Chicago.
During World War II, Strong headed the YMCA's War Prisoners program. He was decorated by the French, Polish and Belgian governments for his prisoner aid work and was the author of "We prisoners of War" published in 1941.
Oberlin Graduate
Dr. Strong graduated in 1908 from Oberlin college which awarded him an honorary LL. D. degree in 1943. Mrs. Strong is also an Oberlin graduate.
Surviving are the widow: two sons, the Rev. Robbin Strong of Geneva, who is with the World Council of Churches and Tracy, Jr., of Orange, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Harmon of Cranford, N.J. and 11 grandchildren.
Officiating at memorial rites will be the Rev. Darrell Parker, First Presbyterian church; Dr. D. T. Niles of Ceylon, currently teaching at Princton Seminary; Dr. G. T. Hamlin, President of George Williams college.
The family said memorials may be made to the Tracy Strong Memorial Fund at George Williams college.
(submitted by Kathy Heckman)
Vidette Messenger
March 8, 1968 p. 8 Friday
RITES SET HERE FOR DR. STRONG
Memorial services will be held here Saturday for Dr. Tracy Strong, 80, who lived in McCool after his retirement as general secretary of the World Alliance of YMCAs.
Strong died Sunday in Olympia, Wash., where he and his wife, the former Edith Robbins of McCool, had resided since last summer.
Memorial services will be held at 2 pm Saturday in First Presbyterian church. Private burial rites will be held Saturday morning in Robbins cemetery, prior to final services.
In Switzerland
Dr. Strong was with the World Alliance of YMCAs in Geneva, Switzerland, for 35 years.
After his retirement in 1953, he was a consultant for the YMCA and taught four years at the YMCAs George Williams college, Chicago.
During World War II, Strong headed the YMCA's War Prisoners program. He was decorated by the French, Polish and Belgian governments for his prisoner aid work and was the author of "We prisoners of War" published in 1941.
Oberlin Graduate
Dr. Strong graduated in 1908 from Oberlin college which awarded him an honorary LL. D. degree in 1943. Mrs. Strong is also an Oberlin graduate.
Surviving are the widow: two sons, the Rev. Robbin Strong of Geneva, who is with the World Council of Churches and Tracy, Jr., of Orange, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Harmon of Cranford, N.J. and 11 grandchildren.
Officiating at memorial rites will be the Rev. Darrell Parker, First Presbyterian church; Dr. D. T. Niles of Ceylon, currently teaching at Princton Seminary; Dr. G. T. Hamlin, President of George Williams college.
The family said memorials may be made to the Tracy Strong Memorial Fund at George Williams college.
(submitted by Kathy Heckman)
Washington Death Index for Tracy, Place of death Thurston.
Vidette Messenger
March 8, 1968 p. 8 Friday
RITES SET HERE FOR DR. STRONG
Memorial services will be held here Saturday for Dr. Tracy Strong, 80, who lived in McCool after his retirement as general secretary of the World Alliance of YMCAs.
Strong died Sunday in Olympia, Wash., where he and his wife, the former Edith Robbins of McCool, had resided since last summer.
Memorial services will be held at 2 pm Saturday in First Presbyterian church. Private burial rites will be held Saturday morning in Robbins cemetery, prior to final services.
In Switzerland
Dr. Strong was with the World Alliance of YMCAs in Geneva, Switzerland, for 35 years.
After his retirement in 1953, he was a consultant for the YMCA and taught four years at the YMCAs George Williams college, Chicago.
During World War II, Strong headed the YMCA's War Prisoners program. He was decorated by the French, Polish and Belgian governments for his prisoner aid work and was the author of "We prisoners of War" published in 1941.
Oberlin Graduate
Dr. Strong graduated in 1908 from Oberlin college which awarded him an honorary LL. D. degree in 1943. Mrs. Strong is also an Oberlin graduate.
Surviving are the widow: two sons, the Rev. Robbin Strong of Geneva, who is with the World Council of Churches and Tracy, Jr., of Orange, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Harmon of Cranford, N.J. and 11 grandchildren.
Officiating at memorial rites will be the Rev. Darrell Parker, First Presbyterian church; Dr. D. T. Niles of Ceylon, currently teaching at Princton Seminary; Dr. G. T. Hamlin, President of George Williams college.
The family said memorials may be made to the Tracy Strong Memorial Fund at George Williams college.
(submitted by Kathy Heckman)
Vidette Messenger
March 8, 1968 p. 8 Friday
RITES SET HERE FOR DR. STRONG
Memorial services will be held here Saturday for Dr. Tracy Strong, 80, who lived in McCool after his retirement as general secretary of the World Alliance of YMCAs.
Strong died Sunday in Olympia, Wash., where he and his wife, the former Edith Robbins of McCool, had resided since last summer.
Memorial services will be held at 2 pm Saturday in First Presbyterian church. Private burial rites will be held Saturday morning in Robbins cemetery, prior to final services.
In Switzerland
Dr. Strong was with the World Alliance of YMCAs in Geneva, Switzerland, for 35 years.
After his retirement in 1953, he was a consultant for the YMCA and taught four years at the YMCAs George Williams college, Chicago.
During World War II, Strong headed the YMCA's War Prisoners program. He was decorated by the French, Polish and Belgian governments for his prisoner aid work and was the author of "We prisoners of War" published in 1941.
Oberlin Graduate
Dr. Strong graduated in 1908 from Oberlin college which awarded him an honorary LL. D. degree in 1943. Mrs. Strong is also an Oberlin graduate.
Surviving are the widow: two sons, the Rev. Robbin Strong of Geneva, who is with the World Council of Churches and Tracy, Jr., of Orange, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Harmon of Cranford, N.J. and 11 grandchildren.
Officiating at memorial rites will be the Rev. Darrell Parker, First Presbyterian church; Dr. D. T. Niles of Ceylon, currently teaching at Princton Seminary; Dr. G. T. Hamlin, President of George Williams college.
The family said memorials may be made to the Tracy Strong Memorial Fund at George Williams college.
(submitted by Kathy Heckman)
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