The Walnut Avenue Gospel Chapel was established as an open brethren (OB) assembly in Couer d'Alene, Idaho in 1935 by William E. Rae of the Portland, Oregon assembly.

Locations

1935+

Ft. Sherman Hall @ 332 Hubbard

+1948+

I.O.O.F. Hall @ 220 N. 4th St.

+1950-present

224 E. Walnut Ave.

Correspondents

+1948-1950+

Walnie Frank Kliewer (b. 1907 Alsen, ND - d. 1989 Cd'A, ID)
- son of Peter Klyver P. Kliewer (b. 1880 MN) and his wife Frances Albrecht (b. 1878 Turner County, SD - d. 1961 Cd'A, SD; Peter's parents were originally from Russia and served the Lord from 1927-1949 in Paraguay.

+1948-1991

Ernest Frank Unruh (b. 1906 Gotebo, OK - d. 1991 Cd'A, ID) +1948-1991; wife Pansy Naomi Dixon Unruh (b. 1906 Standish Las, CA - d. 1997 Cd'A, ID); Ernest served USPS in CA & ID 1925-1965 including Asst. Supt. in Cd'A 1929-1962, then Asst. Postmaster & Postmaster; Co-founder local Gideons, ministering jail inmates 40 years;

Ernest son of Heinrich Unruh (b. 1863 Russia - d. 1919 Burrton, KS) & Gertrude Jantzen Unruh (b. 1877 Russia - d. Cd'A, ID); His mother's 2nd husband may have been a Kliewer.

1990's-2019

Robert L. Unruh 1992-2009;
Donald Dixon Unruh (b. 1931 Cd'A, ID - d. 2019 Spokane, WA) 1994-1997, 2010-2019;

Also See

Sources

Ancestry.com
OB assembly address books 1948, 1950, 1954-2000's;
History_of_Some_Assemblies_of_Christians_in_the_United_States_and_Canada for Idaho, sourced from written questionnaires by Robert L. Peterson and David Rodgers.

Walnut Avenue Gospel Chapel, ID

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