obituaries

Ian (Watto) Watson, founder of the ‘Shed Happens’ movement, died yesterday, 5 December. ‘Every bloke’s a champion!’ was coined by Ian as a rallying encouragement to men to be all that God called them to be.

Paralympian hero and lifelong Lutheran Kieran Modra was killed this morning in a road accident near Gawler, north of Adelaide, when a car collided with his bicycle.

The Board for the LCA’s Finke River Mission has paid tribute to the ministry of the late Pastor Max Stollznow.

Rev Dr David Stolz, who was Vice-President of the LCA from 2001 to 2006 – including two years beyond his official ‘retirement’ – and the church’s Victorian District President from 1988 to 2004, died on 24 August, aged 79.