Livingston County lost an original this week when the Rev. Carl Welser passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 87. And I lost a great friend. Carl was a Lutheran pastor in Hamburg Township for many years, and he was so, so much more. You can read his full obituary here, and suffice it to say, you don’t see many pastors with this kind of résumé. In addition to being the pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Hamburg from 1965 to 1995, he was a firefighter with the Hamburg Fire Department (he was also one of the
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