Rev. LUSHER was pastor of the Linn Grove Methodist Church in 1974. (Source: “Linn Grove Church Plans Consecration Service June 2 [1974]” newspaper article found at the Warren County Historical Society, newspaper unknown, date, May 1974)
He also served the Spring Hill Methodist Church as part of the Norwalk-Linn Grove Charge from 1969 until it closed December 18, 1977. (Source: History of the Spring Hill Methodist Church, copied from The Warren County, Iowa, compiled by the Warren County Genealogical Society, Curtis Media Corp., Dallas, Texas, 1987)