Ireton Methodist Church

Argus-Leader, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Tuesday, September 29, 1959

Refugee Given Assignment to Ireton (IA) Church
Ireton, Ia.—A Latvian minister, who spent three years in a German refugee camp, has been assigned to the Methodist parishes of Ireton and Seney (IA).

The Rev. Fritz Springis and his wife came to the country in 1951 from Germany. He fled from Communist occupied Latvia in 1947.

Educated in Russian schools, the Rev. Mr. Springis attended the University of Riga Theological School. Following his graduation, he taught religion in public schools.

He was arrested in 1942 and placed in a war camp.

In 1945 one of their sons was killed by the Communists. Their other two children are now living in the United States -- a son in Blue Earth, Minn., and a daughter, in Humboldt, Ia., where the Rev. Mr. Springis served as assistant pastor and then pastor.

~Transcribed by Linda Ziemann, Mar 2020

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