Banke, Harold William 7.sep.1910-11.jun.1998 USA Minnesota, Winsted - Winsted
organist, clarinetist, choral conductor, bandmaster, 1920-1925 studied piano with Mrs. Frank White at Elk River, 29.may.1929 graduated from Elk River High School, 1934 diploma from Concordia Teachers College in River Forest Illinois, studied at the University of Minnesota, 1934-1948 organist of St Paul's Lutheran Church in Lester Prairie Minnesota, 1943 founder/conductor of the Lutheran Concert Band, 1948 on the faculty and bandmaster of St Marks Lutheran School and organist of the Lutheran Church in New Germany Minnesota ; son of Theodore Ferdinand Banke (Winsted 24.jun.1886-21.apr.1975 Elk River) and Ida Tuchtenhagen (Howard Lake 28.jan.1888-22.nov.1971 Elk River) ; 19.jun.1935 in Twin Lakes he married Amanda Carolyn Gamm (Burns 3.jan.1905-12.aug.1959 Lester Prairie, of cancer) ; 7.jun.1965 in Norwood he married Virginia Birkholz