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Minnesota man was both priest and mayor, and 'ahead of his time' Worth Knowing: Civil rights, access to birth control, ecumenism, climate change — Denny Becker would take a stand on, and connect the Scriptures to, each of these and more. Becker, 86, died this month at his Garfield, Minn., home . Written By: Matthew Guerry | × Denny Becker Editor's note: Each week reporter Matthew Guerry shares the life stories of residents of Minnesota or the Dakotas who have died recently. Maybe you don't know them, but their stories are worth knowing. If you have a suggestion ...

Worth Knowing: Civil rights, access to birth control, ecumenism, climate change — Denny Becker would take a stand on, and connect the Scriptures to, each of these and more. Becker, 86, died this month at his Garfield, Minn., home .

There for so many celebrations of the bushes, an ben crenshaw of houston. and i looked in the audience and i saw so many of his friends and even people in the choir, i a recognized that they that answered the phones and helped to answer the letters, and thinking of the dedicated staff that served the president so well after he left the white house, and gene beck er, and linda casey pepsle who was there from day one. >> and jim mcgraff as well. and as we are watching this bus go by. and what are you seeing? >> it is a very emotional moment as we saw george bush watching his father loaded on to ...

All good. so how it came to be that i was in houston last thursday, i was speaking at the commencement for baylor university for the health sciences, and i had been in contact with jean -- >> gene becker, his long-time chief of staff. >> and they were very concerned about his condition on thursday. but on friday he was in great spirits. >> he had rallied. >> he had, yeah, he had. he had a great breakfast. jean rang me up and said, ronan, he wants to see you. so i got an uber. i'm not really good at all that stuff. when i came into him, he looked great. i thought he looked great. i'm a physicia...

He really did keep up with people over the years, and these are his friends and his colleagues who are coming to honor him. and so many of his staff -- i was talking to his former chief of staff, gene -- his present chief of staff -- i shouldn't say former. chief of staff, gene becker, who has been with him for 24 years now. since he left the white house. people stayed with him forever. >> and at this time, when we have conversations about the current president, sometimes having trouble getting top quality republicans to join the administration because he is such a different kind of a republic...