German Mission Foundation



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Photos from Gene Maxwell

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Offenburg. Gene Maxwell aboard his bicycle (1970)

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Chapel in Heilbronn. Gene Maxwell, Mildred Ritchie, Vanison Ritchie, Brent Jackson (baptismal service on May 30, 1970)

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Missionary apartment in Freiburg im Breisgau. Gene Maxwell (summer of 1970)

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At the home of Josef and Christl Schlegel in Freiburg im Breisgau. Gene Maxwell, Cornelia Schlegel, Frank Peter Schlegel, Christl Schlegel, and Josef Schlegel

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Chapel in Freiburg im Breisgau. James P. Thomas, Christl Schlegel, and Gene Maxwell (baptismal service on August 1, 1970)

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On the banks of the Danube River near Ulm. Gene Maxwell, Lyle Qualley, and Brian Lundberg (baptismal service on September 24, 1970)

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Mission Office in Munich. Gene Maxwell at his typewriter, serving as the Personal Secretary to the Mission President, Blaine Peterson

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Chapel in Munich. Lloyd Scott Larsen, Moses Oladipo, Gene Maxwell (baptismal service on June 12, 1971).

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Brother Baumeister, Gene Maxwell, (baby) Baumeister, and Sister Baumeister (Sister Baumeister was baptized on July 31, 1971)

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Near the Augsburg Chapel. Gene Maxwell, Sylvia Rosenberger, Sister Rosenberger, and James Allen Higginbotham (baptismal service for Sylvia and Sister Rosenberger – Sylvia’s mother - on August 7, 1971)

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Sister Bertele, Gene Maxwell, and Augsburg Branch President Bertele (1971).

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Near Augsburg, at the home of the Saladin family (investigators). Heinz Saladin, Toni Saladin, and their two children (August 1971).

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Near the Augsburg Chapel. President Blaine Peterson, Sister Lucile Peterson, Elder Gordon B. Hinckley, Sister Marjorie Hinckley, and Jane Hinckley (Special Conference held on August 12, 1971).