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Pastor of Berachah Church; a national teaching ministry from Houston
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Robert Bunger Thieme Jr. was born in Fort Wayne on April 1, 1918, into a family whose fortune stood in the city's hosiery mills; in 1926 the family moved to Beverly Hills, California, and that is where he was raised, so his Fort Wayne tie is his birth and early childhood. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arizona, rose to lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Corps in the Second World War, and took his divinity degree summa cum laude from Dallas Theological Seminary. From 1950 to 2003 he was pastor of Berachah Church in Houston, and through R. B. Thieme Jr. Bible Ministries, founded in 1967, his teaching reached a national audience: more than one hundred books and over 11,000 hours of recorded Bible classes, all distributed free. He died in Houston on August 16, 2009.
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Sources: Houston Chronicle (obituary); Encyclopedia.com; George William King (doctoral study of Thieme, on the Fort Wayne hosiery-mill family).