Moehrle, husband of Lay Committee director, dies The Presbyterian Layman Volume 34, Number 1 Posted January 24, 2001 James Holden Moehrle, 87, husband of Phyllis Moehrle, a director emerita of the Presbyterian Lay Committee, died Dec. 27 in Washington, D.C. A memorial service was held Jan. 3 in The National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. The bookstore that Moehrle managed for 15 years in the church was named the James H. Moehrle Bookstore in 1998. Moehrle, who participated in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge, was a medical technician and chaplain’s assistant during World War II. After the war, he became an insurance broker and managed a Christian bookstore in New York City. He was a member of several boards of directors, including the New York International Bible Society, which sponsored the New International Version of the Bible. Mrs. Moehrle, retired vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, served 15 years as a director of the Presbyterian Lay Committee before being named director emerita in 2000.

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