Anglican Fellowship Church flag raising

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER

A long-awaited, new American flag for Resurrection Anglican Fellowship of Greenwood Village just happened to arrive shortly before Memorial Day 2020. Members of the congregation wanted to raise the flag as a tribute to those lost fighting for our freedom. They chose the Memorial Day weekend to do so. On hand to witness the raising of the American flag was 93-year-old Lynde Schialla, a World War II veteran and member of the Marine First Division who served in Okinawa, Japan. He had two brothers who fought and died in that war. Schialla came to Denver after World War II, where he met and married his wife Margaret, who passed away a few short months ago. They moved into a home in 1965 on land owned by George Wallace, developer of the Denver Tech Center. Margaret and Lynde Schialla subsequently moved to ten acres on Boston Street near the present site of the Resurrection Anglican Fellowship church. Lynde still lives on one acre of that property, having subdivided and sold off the other nine acres many years ago. Schialla’s career included being a founding member of the Castlewood Water District and helping to build Cherry Creek High School and Cinderella City in Englewood, once the largest indoor shopping mall in the world. Katrin Mezger, who took the photo of the flag-raising at Resurrection Anglican Fellowship (see cover), was born and educated in Bavaria, Germany, along with her husband Christian. They came to the United States 20 years ago, moving to Colorado in 2011. The Mezgers became American citizens on May 21, 2019. They are the parents of four children, two of whom still live at home. Also in the photo helping to raise the flag are Charlie Matta and his wife Amal, who have lived in Greenwood Village since 2019. He was raised in Greece and France. Other church members pictured are Lawrence Depenbusch, architect and planner for the property, who chose the location for the flag, Arthur Whitehead, and Sue Green. Depenbusch and Whitehead are in the church men’s group, who paid for the new flag. Green and onsite photographer Katrin Mezger are members of the church choir. The group gathered to undertake this solemn task after the Zoom church service held on May 24. Fmiklin.villager@gmail.com