Major Clarence Lanakila Orion was promoted to Glory Jan. 30 from Florrisant, Mo. The oldest of four children, Orion was born June 6, 1942, in Honolulu to Anathalio and Elizabeth Orion. Orion was raised in The Salvation Army church where he attended kindergarten and remained active throughout his teenage years. In 1960, he won the top [...]
Salvationist Edith (Landon) Brodin, 99, was promoted to Glory April 10. A former officer, Brodin was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ and member of The Salvation Army. She served for more than 75 years in a number of capacities, including corps pianist, bandmaster, corps sergeant major, corps cadet guardian, corps secretary and Sunday school [...]
Brigadier Therma Cline, 95, was promoted to Glory on April 9. Cline was born near Alva, Okla., where her father was a wheat farmer, on June 6, 1917. The family became Salvation Army soldiers at the Pueblo (Colo.) Corps. Cline entered the Training College in San Francisco and was commissioned in 1936 with The World [...]
Major Lola L. Bacon was promoted to Glory Jan. 20 from Albany, Ore. Lola Hoffman was born in Lovelle, Wyo., May 9, 1937, to William and Gladys Hoffman. She served in the U.S. Navy and married Floyd C. Bacon in 1957. In her candidate’s papers for admission to officer training, Bacon wrote of her holiness [...]
Envoy Corrine Erickson was promoted to Glory Dec. 3, 2011, from Anchorage, Alaska. Erickson was born Aug. 23, 1935, in Kane, Pa. Following high school, she worked at a children’s home in Omaha, Neb., and at an Indian Bible camp in Whittierburg, Wis. She then worked three years with the Seneca Indians in Red House, [...]
Major Harold B. Wells was promoted to Glory on Dec. 13, 2011, from Wenatchee, Wash. He was born Oct. 19, 1926, in Stroudsburg, Pa., to Joseph and Ada Wells. As a young man he enlisted with the U.S. Army Infantry and served in the Asiatic Pacific arena and Korea during WWII. Following his military time, [...]
A/Captain Alvin Solts, 76, was promoted to Glory Sept. 9, from Nampa, Idaho. Solts was born in Harrah, Okla., Oct. 19, 1934, and moved with his parents to Fairbanks, Alaska, when he was 2 years old. Five years later, the family moved to Nampa, where he attended school. While working one summer in Portland, Ore., [...]
Major Loren W. Foote, Jr., was promoted to Glory Aug. 26, from his home in Monrovia, Calif. He was born in Breckenridge, Minn., on Oct. 16, 1922, to Loren W. and Hazel B. Foote. When he was 5 years old, the family moved from Rosholt, S. D., to Washington State. The Footes’ involvement with The [...]
Captain Korina Perez Acosta was promoted to Glory Aug. 24 from Joliet, Ill. Korina Perez was born Oct. 20, 1979, in Chicago, Ill. Her parents attended the La Villita Corps, Chicago—her mother was a soldier—and they raised Perez and her four siblings there. At age 7, Perez turned her life over to Christ. In 1994, [...]
Brigadier Marie Pearl Anderson was promoted to Glory July 20 from Henderson, Nev. Anderson was born April 19, 1917, in Cheyenne, Wyo., where her parents were envoys at the Cheyenne Corps. When the family relocated to Pueblo, Colo., they became active in the Pueblo Corps. Anderson participated in many Salvationist youth groups and activities. After [...]
