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Iowa seminary student's body found in Haiti
Family members say the body of a Lutheran seminar student from the Midwest has been located in the rubble of the earthquake that hit Haiti.
The Rev. Judd Larson says Lutheran disaster response workers found Ben Larson's body in the collapsed St. Joseph's Home for Boys in Port-au-Prince. The seminarian's wife, Renee, and cousin, Jonathan Larson escaped from the home when the Jan. 12 earthquake struck.
Judd Larson tells the La Crosse Tribune the family is comforted in knowing his remains have been found at a time when so many others don't know the whereabouts of their loved ones.
The 25-year-old Larson was a Wartburg Theological Seminary student in Dubuque, Iowa, who went to Haiti for the month. He is a La Crosse Central High School graduate. His parents now live in Duluth, Minn.
-- Associated Press
Luther College graduate Ben Larson, who was killed last Tuesday in the Haitian earthquake, is pictured with his wife, Renee Larson, during an earlier visit to Haiti last year. Renee Larson, who was in Haiti doing research for her master's thesis, survived the quake. Her husband, who was teaching in Haiti as part of his course of study to become a Lutheran minister, did not. Photo courtesy of Rev. Mike Blair, campus minister at Luther College in Decorah
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