Joyful Noises Author

John F. Wahl (now deceased) was a retired Lutheran pastor who lived in Santa Cruz, California, with his childhood sweetheart and wife of more than fifty years, Dorothy.

He was a parish pastor for many years. He was also a visiting chaplain at San Quentin, Folsom, and Vacaville state prisons for some ten years.

During the 1950's he was a librarian and professor at California Concordia College in Oakland, California.