Reverand/Dean Abolins was Chief of all the West Coast Latvian Lutheran Churches in America & Canada.
Rev. Roberts Voldemars Abolins, was born in Latvia and was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1940. He was among the approximately 40,000 Latvian refugees who fled Soviet occupied Latvia who settled in the United States soon after World War II.
Uploaded group photo is of Rev. Abolins in 1946 at Diplaced Persons Camp in Germany with other Latvians awaiting permission to settle in a new country. Photo from http://www.archiv.org.lv/baltic_dp_germany/?id=20⟨=en
Rev. Abolins married Mirdza Zviede in London, England in 1953.
Rev. Abolins arrived in America via Port of New York in 1955 and was naturalized as an American Citizen in San Francisco, California.
Rev. and Mrs. Abolins have at least 2 living adult children.
Biography in Latvian below from
https://nekropole.info/en/person/view?id=2894184&l=lv
* 1918. V 18.
1940. VIII 12. ordinēts.
1941/1944. Grobiņas ev. lut. draudzes mācītājs.
Prāvests Roberts Āboliņš bija Latvijas ev. lut. baznīcas amatā vecākais prāvests un LELBAs dibinātājs. Viņš dzimis 1918. gada 18. maijā kalpa ģimenē Mujānu pagastā Vidzemē pie Zilā kalna. Tēvu zaudēja, būdams septiņus gadus vecs. Māte ar četriem dēliem, no kuriem Roberts bija jaunākais, pārcēlās uz Rīgu, kur vecāmāte mazo Robertu bieži veda uz baznīcu. Jau tad Roberts sāka domāt un interesēties par garīgās dzīves vērtībām un centās pēc izglītības. Pēc Rīgas 1.ģimnāzijas absolvēšanas sāka studēt teoloģiju. Sekojot brāļa Jāņa paraugam, 1937. gadā pievienojās Fraternitas Lettica saimei. Pēc Latvijas Universitātes teoloģijas fakultātes beigšanas 1940. gada 8. decembrī ordinēts par mācītāju. Latvijā vadīja Grobiņas draudzi un bija arī skolotājs.
Bēgļu gaitās Vācijā viņš organizēja un aprūpēja latviešu saimi Frankfurtes (pie Oderas) apkārtnē. Pēc Berlīnes krišanas prāvests kalpoja tur palikušajiem latviešiem, līdz izdevās nokļūt angļu zonā. Oldenburgā viņš nodibināja latviešu draudzi, 1947. gadā R. Āboliņš pārcēlās uz Angliju un dibināja latviešu draudzes Ziemeļanglijā, 1953. gadā apprecējās ar Mirdzu Zviedi. 1955. gadā ģimene izceļoja uz Ameriku. R.Āboliņš strādāja amerikāņu luterāņu draudzē Kalifornijā, līdztekus kalpojot Ziemeļkalifornijas un Dienvidkaliforniļas latviešu draudzēs. 1956. gadā ģimenē piedzima dēls Andris, 1959. gadā meita Sandra. 1962. gadā Robertu Āboliņu aicināja par Sietlas draudzes mācītāju. 1967. gadā viņu ievēlēja par apgabala vadītāja palīgu un 1970. gadā par apgabala prāvestu un Baznīcas virsvaldes locekli.
Prāvests Roberts Āboliņš deviņus gadus bijis LELBAs pārvaldes loceklis, veica vairākus amatus. Viņa vadītā LELBAs pārvaldes satversmes apakškomiteja pastāvošo Draudžu apvienību pārveidoja par Latviešu ev.lut. Baznīcu Amerikā. Baznīcas virsvalde apbalvoja viņu ar zelta nopelnu vainadziņu pie krusta un 2000. gadā pēc 60 gadu kalpošanas mācītāja un 30 gadu prāvesta amatā piešķīra tiesības pie mācītāja tērpa valkāt īpašu baltu kruzuļotu apkakli - "krauzi".
Prāvests sacīja, ka garajos 60 darba gados viņš nepaspēja sprediķos izteikt visu, kas viņam bija sakrājies uz sirds un ko vēlējās pateikt.
Avots: „Dzimtenes draudzes un baznīcas", ASV, 1987.;
"Baznīcas kalendārs 1944. gadam", R.- 1943.
"Laiks", 25.05.2002
Source: biographien.lv
---- Further information in English ---
Dean Reverend Roberts V. Abolins - obituary appeared in
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington State) - April 24, 2002
ABOLINS, Robert V., aged 83, of Seattle, April 16, 2002.
Page: B8 - http://seattlep-i.com
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4V-1SG9 : 14 September 2016), Robert V Abolins, Washington, United States, 24 Apr 2002; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Seattle Post-Intelligencer, born-digital text.
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A famous protest called the Baltic Way took place across all three Baltic States to rally for independence from the USSR. Rallies also took place around the world led by the Baltic diaspora of refugees who fled during WWII which helped the Latvian republic to win its independence after decades of illegal occupation by the Soviet Union.
RALLY NOTES DARK DAY IN BALTIC STATES' PAST
published August 28, 1989 | The Seattle Times, Washington State)
Author: DICK LILLY | Page: B2
When Soviet troops overran the small Baltic nation of Latvia nearly 50 years ago, Rev. Robert Abolins, then age 22, watched helplessly. The invaders had all the weapons.
Now a miracle has happened, the tide . . . has turned'' after five decades of oppression, said Rev. Abolins, who is dean of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Seattle.
Speaking to a "Black Ribbon Day'' rally of about 150 emigres from the Baltic states and their descendants, Abolins called on Western nations, including the U.S., to speak up for Baltic independence.
The rally at Seattle Center's Flag Plaza was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed Aug. 23, 1939, in which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Eastern Europe.
The black ribbons symbolized "the day of death for all the Baltic countries'' when the pact was signed, said Ieva Laukers of Medina, Washington, as she held a Latvian flag at the rally yesterday.
A week after it was signed, the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression treaty led to the start of World War II, as Germany invaded Poland and Soviet troops took over Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Despite his optimism, Abolins said that, under the new Soviet policy of "perestroika'' - political and economic reform - things haven't changed much in the Baltic states. On a recent visit to Latvia, Abolins was told by a friend, "The leash is longer. We can now bark. The rest is the same.''
Citizens of the three states barked loudly last Wednesday, when they marked the hated treaty's anniversary with a call for political and economic freedom. To demonstrate their feelings, more than 1 million people linked hands to form a nearly unbroken chain 600 miles between the states' capitals.
10 - 20 % of ethnic Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were ''murdered or deported to slave labor camps in the Soviet Union,'' U.S. Representative John Miller told the crowd. But the Republican congressman from Seattle said: ''The Soviet Union has failed. They have not conquered the Baltic people's spirit.''
He said the purpose of yesterday's rally was to remember those who died and to educate the American people about the Soviet Union's oppression of the Baltic states.
Rev. Roberts Voldemars Abolins, was born in Latvia and was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1940. He was among the approximately 40,000 Latvian refugees who fled Soviet occupied Latvia who settled in the United States soon after World War II.
Uploaded group photo is of Rev. Abolins in 1946 at Diplaced Persons Camp in Germany with other Latvians awaiting permission to settle in a new country. Photo from http://www.archiv.org.lv/baltic_dp_germany/?id=20⟨=en
Rev. Abolins married Mirdza Zviede in London, England in 1953.
Rev. Abolins arrived in America via Port of New York in 1955 and was naturalized as an American Citizen in San Francisco, California.
Rev. and Mrs. Abolins have at least 2 living adult children.
Biography in Latvian below from
https://nekropole.info/en/person/view?id=2894184&l=lv
* 1918. V 18.
1940. VIII 12. ordinēts.
1941/1944. Grobiņas ev. lut. draudzes mācītājs.
Prāvests Roberts Āboliņš bija Latvijas ev. lut. baznīcas amatā vecākais prāvests un LELBAs dibinātājs. Viņš dzimis 1918. gada 18. maijā kalpa ģimenē Mujānu pagastā Vidzemē pie Zilā kalna. Tēvu zaudēja, būdams septiņus gadus vecs. Māte ar četriem dēliem, no kuriem Roberts bija jaunākais, pārcēlās uz Rīgu, kur vecāmāte mazo Robertu bieži veda uz baznīcu. Jau tad Roberts sāka domāt un interesēties par garīgās dzīves vērtībām un centās pēc izglītības. Pēc Rīgas 1.ģimnāzijas absolvēšanas sāka studēt teoloģiju. Sekojot brāļa Jāņa paraugam, 1937. gadā pievienojās Fraternitas Lettica saimei. Pēc Latvijas Universitātes teoloģijas fakultātes beigšanas 1940. gada 8. decembrī ordinēts par mācītāju. Latvijā vadīja Grobiņas draudzi un bija arī skolotājs.
Bēgļu gaitās Vācijā viņš organizēja un aprūpēja latviešu saimi Frankfurtes (pie Oderas) apkārtnē. Pēc Berlīnes krišanas prāvests kalpoja tur palikušajiem latviešiem, līdz izdevās nokļūt angļu zonā. Oldenburgā viņš nodibināja latviešu draudzi, 1947. gadā R. Āboliņš pārcēlās uz Angliju un dibināja latviešu draudzes Ziemeļanglijā, 1953. gadā apprecējās ar Mirdzu Zviedi. 1955. gadā ģimene izceļoja uz Ameriku. R.Āboliņš strādāja amerikāņu luterāņu draudzē Kalifornijā, līdztekus kalpojot Ziemeļkalifornijas un Dienvidkaliforniļas latviešu draudzēs. 1956. gadā ģimenē piedzima dēls Andris, 1959. gadā meita Sandra. 1962. gadā Robertu Āboliņu aicināja par Sietlas draudzes mācītāju. 1967. gadā viņu ievēlēja par apgabala vadītāja palīgu un 1970. gadā par apgabala prāvestu un Baznīcas virsvaldes locekli.
Prāvests Roberts Āboliņš deviņus gadus bijis LELBAs pārvaldes loceklis, veica vairākus amatus. Viņa vadītā LELBAs pārvaldes satversmes apakškomiteja pastāvošo Draudžu apvienību pārveidoja par Latviešu ev.lut. Baznīcu Amerikā. Baznīcas virsvalde apbalvoja viņu ar zelta nopelnu vainadziņu pie krusta un 2000. gadā pēc 60 gadu kalpošanas mācītāja un 30 gadu prāvesta amatā piešķīra tiesības pie mācītāja tērpa valkāt īpašu baltu kruzuļotu apkakli - "krauzi".
Prāvests sacīja, ka garajos 60 darba gados viņš nepaspēja sprediķos izteikt visu, kas viņam bija sakrājies uz sirds un ko vēlējās pateikt.
Avots: „Dzimtenes draudzes un baznīcas", ASV, 1987.;
"Baznīcas kalendārs 1944. gadam", R.- 1943.
"Laiks", 25.05.2002
Source: biographien.lv
---- Further information in English ---
Dean Reverend Roberts V. Abolins - obituary appeared in
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington State) - April 24, 2002
ABOLINS, Robert V., aged 83, of Seattle, April 16, 2002.
Page: B8 - http://seattlep-i.com
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4V-1SG9 : 14 September 2016), Robert V Abolins, Washington, United States, 24 Apr 2002; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Seattle Post-Intelligencer, born-digital text.
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A famous protest called the Baltic Way took place across all three Baltic States to rally for independence from the USSR. Rallies also took place around the world led by the Baltic diaspora of refugees who fled during WWII which helped the Latvian republic to win its independence after decades of illegal occupation by the Soviet Union.
RALLY NOTES DARK DAY IN BALTIC STATES' PAST
published August 28, 1989 | The Seattle Times, Washington State)
Author: DICK LILLY | Page: B2
When Soviet troops overran the small Baltic nation of Latvia nearly 50 years ago, Rev. Robert Abolins, then age 22, watched helplessly. The invaders had all the weapons.
Now a miracle has happened, the tide . . . has turned'' after five decades of oppression, said Rev. Abolins, who is dean of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Seattle.
Speaking to a "Black Ribbon Day'' rally of about 150 emigres from the Baltic states and their descendants, Abolins called on Western nations, including the U.S., to speak up for Baltic independence.
The rally at Seattle Center's Flag Plaza was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed Aug. 23, 1939, in which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Eastern Europe.
The black ribbons symbolized "the day of death for all the Baltic countries'' when the pact was signed, said Ieva Laukers of Medina, Washington, as she held a Latvian flag at the rally yesterday.
A week after it was signed, the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression treaty led to the start of World War II, as Germany invaded Poland and Soviet troops took over Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Despite his optimism, Abolins said that, under the new Soviet policy of "perestroika'' - political and economic reform - things haven't changed much in the Baltic states. On a recent visit to Latvia, Abolins was told by a friend, "The leash is longer. We can now bark. The rest is the same.''
Citizens of the three states barked loudly last Wednesday, when they marked the hated treaty's anniversary with a call for political and economic freedom. To demonstrate their feelings, more than 1 million people linked hands to form a nearly unbroken chain 600 miles between the states' capitals.
10 - 20 % of ethnic Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were ''murdered or deported to slave labor camps in the Soviet Union,'' U.S. Representative John Miller told the crowd. But the Republican congressman from Seattle said: ''The Soviet Union has failed. They have not conquered the Baltic people's spirit.''
He said the purpose of yesterday's rally was to remember those who died and to educate the American people about the Soviet Union's oppression of the Baltic states.
Reverand/Dean Abolins was Chief of all the West Coast Latvian Lutheran Churches in America & Canada.
Rev. Roberts Voldemars Abolins, was born in Latvia and was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1940. He was among the approximately 40,000 Latvian refugees who fled Soviet occupied Latvia who settled in the United States soon after World War II.
Uploaded group photo is of Rev. Abolins in 1946 at Diplaced Persons Camp in Germany with other Latvians awaiting permission to settle in a new country. Photo from http://www.archiv.org.lv/baltic_dp_germany/?id=20⟨=en
Rev. Abolins married Mirdza Zviede in London, England in 1953.
Rev. Abolins arrived in America via Port of New York in 1955 and was naturalized as an American Citizen in San Francisco, California.
Rev. and Mrs. Abolins have at least 2 living adult children.
Biography in Latvian below from
https://nekropole.info/en/person/view?id=2894184&l=lv
* 1918. V 18.
1940. VIII 12. ordinēts.
1941/1944. Grobiņas ev. lut. draudzes mācītājs.
Prāvests Roberts Āboliņš bija Latvijas ev. lut. baznīcas amatā vecākais prāvests un LELBAs dibinātājs. Viņš dzimis 1918. gada 18. maijā kalpa ģimenē Mujānu pagastā Vidzemē pie Zilā kalna. Tēvu zaudēja, būdams septiņus gadus vecs. Māte ar četriem dēliem, no kuriem Roberts bija jaunākais, pārcēlās uz Rīgu, kur vecāmāte mazo Robertu bieži veda uz baznīcu. Jau tad Roberts sāka domāt un interesēties par garīgās dzīves vērtībām un centās pēc izglītības. Pēc Rīgas 1.ģimnāzijas absolvēšanas sāka studēt teoloģiju. Sekojot brāļa Jāņa paraugam, 1937. gadā pievienojās Fraternitas Lettica saimei. Pēc Latvijas Universitātes teoloģijas fakultātes beigšanas 1940. gada 8. decembrī ordinēts par mācītāju. Latvijā vadīja Grobiņas draudzi un bija arī skolotājs.
Bēgļu gaitās Vācijā viņš organizēja un aprūpēja latviešu saimi Frankfurtes (pie Oderas) apkārtnē. Pēc Berlīnes krišanas prāvests kalpoja tur palikušajiem latviešiem, līdz izdevās nokļūt angļu zonā. Oldenburgā viņš nodibināja latviešu draudzi, 1947. gadā R. Āboliņš pārcēlās uz Angliju un dibināja latviešu draudzes Ziemeļanglijā, 1953. gadā apprecējās ar Mirdzu Zviedi. 1955. gadā ģimene izceļoja uz Ameriku. R.Āboliņš strādāja amerikāņu luterāņu draudzē Kalifornijā, līdztekus kalpojot Ziemeļkalifornijas un Dienvidkaliforniļas latviešu draudzēs. 1956. gadā ģimenē piedzima dēls Andris, 1959. gadā meita Sandra. 1962. gadā Robertu Āboliņu aicināja par Sietlas draudzes mācītāju. 1967. gadā viņu ievēlēja par apgabala vadītāja palīgu un 1970. gadā par apgabala prāvestu un Baznīcas virsvaldes locekli.
Prāvests Roberts Āboliņš deviņus gadus bijis LELBAs pārvaldes loceklis, veica vairākus amatus. Viņa vadītā LELBAs pārvaldes satversmes apakškomiteja pastāvošo Draudžu apvienību pārveidoja par Latviešu ev.lut. Baznīcu Amerikā. Baznīcas virsvalde apbalvoja viņu ar zelta nopelnu vainadziņu pie krusta un 2000. gadā pēc 60 gadu kalpošanas mācītāja un 30 gadu prāvesta amatā piešķīra tiesības pie mācītāja tērpa valkāt īpašu baltu kruzuļotu apkakli - "krauzi".
Prāvests sacīja, ka garajos 60 darba gados viņš nepaspēja sprediķos izteikt visu, kas viņam bija sakrājies uz sirds un ko vēlējās pateikt.
Avots: „Dzimtenes draudzes un baznīcas", ASV, 1987.;
"Baznīcas kalendārs 1944. gadam", R.- 1943.
"Laiks", 25.05.2002
Source: biographien.lv
---- Further information in English ---
Dean Reverend Roberts V. Abolins - obituary appeared in
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington State) - April 24, 2002
ABOLINS, Robert V., aged 83, of Seattle, April 16, 2002.
Page: B8 - http://seattlep-i.com
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4V-1SG9 : 14 September 2016), Robert V Abolins, Washington, United States, 24 Apr 2002; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Seattle Post-Intelligencer, born-digital text.
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A famous protest called the Baltic Way took place across all three Baltic States to rally for independence from the USSR. Rallies also took place around the world led by the Baltic diaspora of refugees who fled during WWII which helped the Latvian republic to win its independence after decades of illegal occupation by the Soviet Union.
RALLY NOTES DARK DAY IN BALTIC STATES' PAST
published August 28, 1989 | The Seattle Times, Washington State)
Author: DICK LILLY | Page: B2
When Soviet troops overran the small Baltic nation of Latvia nearly 50 years ago, Rev. Robert Abolins, then age 22, watched helplessly. The invaders had all the weapons.
Now a miracle has happened, the tide . . . has turned'' after five decades of oppression, said Rev. Abolins, who is dean of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Seattle.
Speaking to a "Black Ribbon Day'' rally of about 150 emigres from the Baltic states and their descendants, Abolins called on Western nations, including the U.S., to speak up for Baltic independence.
The rally at Seattle Center's Flag Plaza was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed Aug. 23, 1939, in which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Eastern Europe.
The black ribbons symbolized "the day of death for all the Baltic countries'' when the pact was signed, said Ieva Laukers of Medina, Washington, as she held a Latvian flag at the rally yesterday.
A week after it was signed, the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression treaty led to the start of World War II, as Germany invaded Poland and Soviet troops took over Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Despite his optimism, Abolins said that, under the new Soviet policy of "perestroika'' - political and economic reform - things haven't changed much in the Baltic states. On a recent visit to Latvia, Abolins was told by a friend, "The leash is longer. We can now bark. The rest is the same.''
Citizens of the three states barked loudly last Wednesday, when they marked the hated treaty's anniversary with a call for political and economic freedom. To demonstrate their feelings, more than 1 million people linked hands to form a nearly unbroken chain 600 miles between the states' capitals.
10 - 20 % of ethnic Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were ''murdered or deported to slave labor camps in the Soviet Union,'' U.S. Representative John Miller told the crowd. But the Republican congressman from Seattle said: ''The Soviet Union has failed. They have not conquered the Baltic people's spirit.''
He said the purpose of yesterday's rally was to remember those who died and to educate the American people about the Soviet Union's oppression of the Baltic states.
Rev. Roberts Voldemars Abolins, was born in Latvia and was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1940. He was among the approximately 40,000 Latvian refugees who fled Soviet occupied Latvia who settled in the United States soon after World War II.
Uploaded group photo is of Rev. Abolins in 1946 at Diplaced Persons Camp in Germany with other Latvians awaiting permission to settle in a new country. Photo from http://www.archiv.org.lv/baltic_dp_germany/?id=20⟨=en
Rev. Abolins married Mirdza Zviede in London, England in 1953.
Rev. Abolins arrived in America via Port of New York in 1955 and was naturalized as an American Citizen in San Francisco, California.
Rev. and Mrs. Abolins have at least 2 living adult children.
Biography in Latvian below from
https://nekropole.info/en/person/view?id=2894184&l=lv
* 1918. V 18.
1940. VIII 12. ordinēts.
1941/1944. Grobiņas ev. lut. draudzes mācītājs.
Prāvests Roberts Āboliņš bija Latvijas ev. lut. baznīcas amatā vecākais prāvests un LELBAs dibinātājs. Viņš dzimis 1918. gada 18. maijā kalpa ģimenē Mujānu pagastā Vidzemē pie Zilā kalna. Tēvu zaudēja, būdams septiņus gadus vecs. Māte ar četriem dēliem, no kuriem Roberts bija jaunākais, pārcēlās uz Rīgu, kur vecāmāte mazo Robertu bieži veda uz baznīcu. Jau tad Roberts sāka domāt un interesēties par garīgās dzīves vērtībām un centās pēc izglītības. Pēc Rīgas 1.ģimnāzijas absolvēšanas sāka studēt teoloģiju. Sekojot brāļa Jāņa paraugam, 1937. gadā pievienojās Fraternitas Lettica saimei. Pēc Latvijas Universitātes teoloģijas fakultātes beigšanas 1940. gada 8. decembrī ordinēts par mācītāju. Latvijā vadīja Grobiņas draudzi un bija arī skolotājs.
Bēgļu gaitās Vācijā viņš organizēja un aprūpēja latviešu saimi Frankfurtes (pie Oderas) apkārtnē. Pēc Berlīnes krišanas prāvests kalpoja tur palikušajiem latviešiem, līdz izdevās nokļūt angļu zonā. Oldenburgā viņš nodibināja latviešu draudzi, 1947. gadā R. Āboliņš pārcēlās uz Angliju un dibināja latviešu draudzes Ziemeļanglijā, 1953. gadā apprecējās ar Mirdzu Zviedi. 1955. gadā ģimene izceļoja uz Ameriku. R.Āboliņš strādāja amerikāņu luterāņu draudzē Kalifornijā, līdztekus kalpojot Ziemeļkalifornijas un Dienvidkaliforniļas latviešu draudzēs. 1956. gadā ģimenē piedzima dēls Andris, 1959. gadā meita Sandra. 1962. gadā Robertu Āboliņu aicināja par Sietlas draudzes mācītāju. 1967. gadā viņu ievēlēja par apgabala vadītāja palīgu un 1970. gadā par apgabala prāvestu un Baznīcas virsvaldes locekli.
Prāvests Roberts Āboliņš deviņus gadus bijis LELBAs pārvaldes loceklis, veica vairākus amatus. Viņa vadītā LELBAs pārvaldes satversmes apakškomiteja pastāvošo Draudžu apvienību pārveidoja par Latviešu ev.lut. Baznīcu Amerikā. Baznīcas virsvalde apbalvoja viņu ar zelta nopelnu vainadziņu pie krusta un 2000. gadā pēc 60 gadu kalpošanas mācītāja un 30 gadu prāvesta amatā piešķīra tiesības pie mācītāja tērpa valkāt īpašu baltu kruzuļotu apkakli - "krauzi".
Prāvests sacīja, ka garajos 60 darba gados viņš nepaspēja sprediķos izteikt visu, kas viņam bija sakrājies uz sirds un ko vēlējās pateikt.
Avots: „Dzimtenes draudzes un baznīcas", ASV, 1987.;
"Baznīcas kalendārs 1944. gadam", R.- 1943.
"Laiks", 25.05.2002
Source: biographien.lv
---- Further information in English ---
Dean Reverend Roberts V. Abolins - obituary appeared in
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington State) - April 24, 2002
ABOLINS, Robert V., aged 83, of Seattle, April 16, 2002.
Page: B8 - http://seattlep-i.com
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4V-1SG9 : 14 September 2016), Robert V Abolins, Washington, United States, 24 Apr 2002; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Seattle Post-Intelligencer, born-digital text.
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A famous protest called the Baltic Way took place across all three Baltic States to rally for independence from the USSR. Rallies also took place around the world led by the Baltic diaspora of refugees who fled during WWII which helped the Latvian republic to win its independence after decades of illegal occupation by the Soviet Union.
RALLY NOTES DARK DAY IN BALTIC STATES' PAST
published August 28, 1989 | The Seattle Times, Washington State)
Author: DICK LILLY | Page: B2
When Soviet troops overran the small Baltic nation of Latvia nearly 50 years ago, Rev. Robert Abolins, then age 22, watched helplessly. The invaders had all the weapons.
Now a miracle has happened, the tide . . . has turned'' after five decades of oppression, said Rev. Abolins, who is dean of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Seattle.
Speaking to a "Black Ribbon Day'' rally of about 150 emigres from the Baltic states and their descendants, Abolins called on Western nations, including the U.S., to speak up for Baltic independence.
The rally at Seattle Center's Flag Plaza was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed Aug. 23, 1939, in which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Eastern Europe.
The black ribbons symbolized "the day of death for all the Baltic countries'' when the pact was signed, said Ieva Laukers of Medina, Washington, as she held a Latvian flag at the rally yesterday.
A week after it was signed, the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression treaty led to the start of World War II, as Germany invaded Poland and Soviet troops took over Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Despite his optimism, Abolins said that, under the new Soviet policy of "perestroika'' - political and economic reform - things haven't changed much in the Baltic states. On a recent visit to Latvia, Abolins was told by a friend, "The leash is longer. We can now bark. The rest is the same.''
Citizens of the three states barked loudly last Wednesday, when they marked the hated treaty's anniversary with a call for political and economic freedom. To demonstrate their feelings, more than 1 million people linked hands to form a nearly unbroken chain 600 miles between the states' capitals.
10 - 20 % of ethnic Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were ''murdered or deported to slave labor camps in the Soviet Union,'' U.S. Representative John Miller told the crowd. But the Republican congressman from Seattle said: ''The Soviet Union has failed. They have not conquered the Baltic people's spirit.''
He said the purpose of yesterday's rally was to remember those who died and to educate the American people about the Soviet Union's oppression of the Baltic states.
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Pravests Roberts V. Abolins
Wife: Mirdza Z. Abolins
Gravesite Details
Large upright gravestone imarks the section of the cemetery reserved fo the Latvian community of the Seattle area. See www.seattlelatvianchurch.org for details about the community and the church which Rev. Abolins served until his death.
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