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DEDICATION and THANK YOU

TO OUR PARENTS

WE LOVE YOU ALL!

Cove Picture

We would like to introduce ourselves to you:

Elliott & PeggyLynn Knoblich (Husband & Wife Team for the Lord)

We would like to take this time to Introduce to you Our Parents:

PeggyLynn's Parents: Milton R. Horschler and Peggy A. Horschler

Elliott's Parents: Dale W. Knoblich and Ina J. Knoblich

Status of our Parents is as follows:

Three (3) of them have gone to be with our Lord Jesus in Heaven.

Jesus has graciously left one of them with us to enjoy her company.

Our Parents:

Peggy A. Horschler

(Widely known as NANA thanks to the Grandchildren!)

Is with us today and enjoying life to the fullest at the young age of 85.

We pray that she will be with us for many years to come!

Our Other Parents Listed Here In Order Of Going Home to Glory Land!

Dale W. Knoblich {1916-1968}

Milton R. Horschler {1926 - 1991}

Ina J. Knoblich {1917 - 1995}

We thank the Lord Jesus Christ for giving us such great parents we cherished them always. We are very blessed because of having them as our Parents.

We thank them for our baby stages of life.
Our Baptisms, first words, first steps, first walks, first runs.
Our Church years as we were growing up.
Introducing us to our Lord Jesus Christ. Taking us to Church, Sunday School, Confirmations, First Communions.
Graduations through Grade School and High School.
Helping us through our Growing Pains and right through to adulthood and everything in between.
We Love You all dearly and Thank you all for everything you have done for us and what you have given us.
We have so much to be thankful to God for, in that he gave us such a wonderful gift which is you as our parents.

Oh Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you, for allowing our Mother (Peggy) to still be within our mits today and enjoying the company everyday of her life that she is with us and looking to be with her for many years to come. And, for taking our other parents Safely Home to Your Mansion in Heaven. This we ask in Jesus Name. Amen

All of our Parents has and had the greatest Love and admiration for God's creation

and one type of love they all shared was for the water.

Our Father's choose to serve their Country

in the Armed Forces {Branch of the Navy}.

Milton R. Horschler, which choose to enlist in the Armed Forces, Branch of the Navy. In which he proudly served on the USS Saratoga. He served his country well for 9 years which included the time that the attack was put on Pearl Harbor and God sustained him and brought him back safely home to PeggyLynn's Mother; Peggy A. Horschler on harmed.

Thank you dear Jesus for his safe return.

Dale W. Knoblich, which choose to enlist in the Armed Forces, Branch of the Navy. In which he proudly served on the YMS-177. He served his country well for 3 years. God sustained him and brought him back safely home to Elliott's Mother; Ina J. Knoblich on harmed.

Thank you dear Jesus for his safe return.

Both our Father's had such a love for the Sea!

The background music "The Navy Hymn" is very appropriate.

ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE

(The Navy Hym)

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Words: William Whiting, 1860. He wrote the lyrics as a poem for a student about to sail for America.

Music: “Melita,” John B. Dykes, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. Dykes fittingly named the tune after a locale associated with a Biblical shipwreck. Melita was the island the Apostle Paul reached after his ship went down (Acts 28:1); today we know it as the isle of Malta.

In America, “Eternal Father” is often called the “Navy Hymn,” because it is sung at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It is also sung on ships of the British Royal Navy and has been translated into French. It was the favorite hymn of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and was sung at his funeral in Hyde Park, New York, April 1945. The Navy Band played it in 1963 as U.S. President John Kennedy’s body was carried up the steps of the U.S. Capitol to lie in state. Roosevelt served as Secretary of the Navy, and Kennedy was a PT boat commander in World War II.

ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE

"THE NAVY HYMN"

Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; Incline Your ear to me,

and save me. Psalm 71:2 (NKJV)

LYRICS

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who biddest the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy Word,
Who walked on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Trinity of love and power!
Our family shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect us wheresoever we go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

Alternate verses:

Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
Through the great spaces in the sky.
Be with them always in the air,
In darkening storms or sunlight fair;
Oh, hear us when we lift our prayer,
For those in peril in the air!

Aloft in solitudes of space,
Uphold them with Thy saving grace.
Thou Who supports with tender might
The balanced birds in all their flight.
Lord, if the tempered winds be near,
That, having Thee, they know no fear.

Mary C. D. Hamilton (1915)

Altenative Verses

Eternal Father, Lord of hosts,
Watch over the men who guard our coasts.
Protect them from the raging seas
And give them light and life and peace.
Grant them from Thy great throne above
The shield and shelter of Thy love.

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God, Who dost still the restless foam,
Protect the ones we love at home.
Provide that they should always be
By Thine own grace both safe and free.
O Father, hear us when we pray
For those we love so far away.

Hugh Taylor (date unknown)

O Father, King of earth and sea,
We dedicate this ship to Thee.
In faith we send her on her way;
In faith to Thee we humbly pray:
O hear from Heaven our sailor’s cry
And watch and guard her from on high!

Author/date unknown

And when at length her course is run,
Her work for home and country done,
Of all the souls that in her sailed
Let not one life in Thee have failed;
But hear from Heaven our sailor’s cry,
And grant eternal life on high!

Author/date unknown

The Bible with Cross and Roses Dear Heavenly Father, We pray for all those who have given up their lives for their country and rejoyce in their life with you forever. Thank you for sending those home to their loved ones and sustain all who have fought the good fight. This we ask in Jesus Name. Amen.