Gabriel Fackre - Personal Life

Personal Life

Fackre was born in Jersey City, NJ and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He and his spouse, Dorothy Ashman Fackre, married in 1945, were students together at both Bucknell University and the University of Chicago Divinity School and later the parents of five children and grandparents of eight. Dorothy, also an ordained clergyperson, served with Gabriel in congregations in the Chicago stockyards district and in the greater Pittsburgh steel mill towns of Homestead and Duquesne, Pennsylvania for 12 years. Having been involved together in theological, ecclesiastical, and social issues throughout their marriage, they are currently writing a joint memoir.

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