Fifty years ago, Marlys Mittelstadt, of Monona, put off starting her new job as the organist and choir director at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Madison because she was having a baby. She officially started serving the congregation when her youngest child was six weeks old. “It was 50 years (of performing) on Sept. 15,” she said.
On Sunday, she played at her last service and while she plans on performing recitals in the future, she said she will miss Sundays.