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Mr. Arthur MacLean passed away on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 after complications from a heart procedure.

Art began his work at Saint Paul Lutheran high School in the 1986-87 school year coaching girls volleyball. During the subsequent years he would coach SPLHS volleyball on and off until he was hired also in the recruitment department in 2003, a job he held until 2009.

The funeral for Art MacLean will be on March 14th at 11:00am at Timothy Lutheran in Blue Springs, MO. Visitation will be from 9:30am-11:00am, prior to the funeral. Burial will be in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in Alma, MO.

Jesse Kunkel was called to his heavenly home on September 11, 2025. 

Through his ministry, Jesse touched the lives of many. We are deeply thankful for his years of service at St. Paul’s College High (1967–1988) as a dedicated teacher, coach, and visionary who helped shape the school’s Development Department.

You can find his full obituary here.  

Hadley Nicole Rolf, 28, of Liberty, MO passed away Monday, August 19, 2024.

Hadley was born on September 15, 1995, at Western Missouri Medical Center in Warrensburg, MO, to Derron Lane Rolf and Connie Sue Nolte Rolf. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Alma, MO where she was baptized on October 15, 1995 and also confirmed into the Christian faith on March 28, 2010.

View her full obituary here.

Dr. Larry Henry Grothaus was called to his eternal home in heaven on Tuesday, October 4, 2022.  He was asked to be the high school dorm counselor and teach history at St. Paul's College in January 1954 and taught here for 14 years.  View his full obituary online here.

The Rev. Otto Henry Urban, former professor at St. Paul’s College passed away on Sunday, August 28.  He had been a resident for the past few years at the Good Shepherd Village in Concordia, MO.

 Rev Urban was born on January 20, 1933 in Houston, TX.  He attended Concordia Lutheran Academy (High School) in Austin, TX and St. John’s College in Winfield, KS before entering Concordia Seminary in St. Louis where he earned his BA degree (1957).  He furthered his education at Southwestern State College in Weatherford, OK and West Texas State University in Canyon, TX where he received his MA degree (1966).  He also did graduate work at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.

 Pastor Urban served Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Sebastopol, CA from 1957 – 1960, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Lone Wolf, OK from 1960 – 1964, and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Plainview, TX from 1964-1966.

 Rev. Urban came to SPC in July of 1966 as a college Assistant Professor of English.  He taught in that capacity until January of 1977 when he accepted a call to a pastorate in Montana.

 Following his graduation from the seminary, Rev. Urban married Vonda Lee Green and this union was blessed with 6 children (LeAnn, Lynetta, Douglas, Delisa, Natalie, and Nathan).