Might he be related to the hymn-writer & pastor, Herbert Brokering? 1930 US census has his father born in Hanover, Germany, which is where Cheryl's immigrant came from.
From http://hymnuts.luthersem.edu/hcompan/writers/brokering.htm:
The son of a Lutheran pastor, Herbert Frederick Brokering was born May 21, 1926, at Beatrice, Nebraska. After his studies at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, he attended Wartburg Seminary and the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. He completed a Master of Arts degree in child psychology at the University of Iowa, and did additional graduate work in religious education at the University of Pittsburgh, and in theology at the Universities of Kiel and Erlangen in Germany. He has worked with the Lutheran World Federation, and with the World Council of Churches workcamp in Europe, and with the Lutheran Student Association at the University of Iowa. For ten years he was a parish pastor, serving in Cedarhurst, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and San Antonio, Texas. From 1960 to 1970 he was with the department of parish education of the national offices of the American Lutheran Church. Since then, he has been in free-lance, or "tent" ministry, serving as a resource person and consultant for local, regional, and national seminars on creative worship and ministry in all denominations. He has also served as a part-time professor of creative worship and education in seminaries and military schools, and been on the Holden faculty for a number of years. A close friend of Dr. Roland Bainton, he has collaborated with him in Renaissance-Reformation festivals throughout the Midwest, and as tour guides of Reformation sites in 1978. He and his wife, Lois nee Redelfs, are the parents of four children. |