The Rev. Dr. Prescott B. Wintersteen

uurmapaThe Rev. Dr. Prescott B. Wintersteen, 92, died June 9, 2005. He was the son of Unitarian minister Roy Brown Wintersteen. He served congregations in Marblehead, Milton, Salem, and Stoughton, MA. The First Parish in Milton named him Minister Emeritus in 1976. He served as a Navy chaplain from 1941 to 1961. At one time, he was on the bridge of the USS Augusta with General George Patton at the invasion of North Africa. His articles appeared in Journal of Liberal Religion, the Christian Register, and Navy publications. He was the author of Christology in American Unitarianism. Surviving are his children, Prescott Jr. of Pittsburgh, PA; Wendy Wintersteen Girdosky of Tucson, AZ; Jeremy of Boston; and six grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wives Dorothy (Down) Wintersteen and Sheila (Mills-Storey) Wintersteen.

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