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==Background==

==Background==

Pitsch was born in Buffalo in Johnson County in northern [[Wyoming]],<ref name=ballotpedia>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Mathew_Pitsch|title=Mathew Pitsch|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref> to Leland Alexander and Della Ann Skiles Pitsch (both born c. 1941).<ref name=obit/> He is listed in the Sheridan County Historical Index as a former resident of Sheridan, Wyoming, dates not specified.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wysherid/heritage/p.htm|title=Sheridan County Heritage Index|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=April 9, 2015}}</ref>

Pitsch was born in Buffalo in Johnson County in northern [[Wyoming]],<ref name=ballotpedia>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Mathew_Pitsch|title=Mathew Pitsch|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref> to Leland Alexander and Della Ann Skiles Pitsch (both born c. 1941).<ref name=obit/> He is listed in the Sheridan County Historical Index as a former resident of Sheridan, Wyoming, dates not specified. He was reared in several communities in [[Nebraska]] and [[Kansas]], where his father was a teacher and a coach of various sports. In 1983, he received an Associate of Arts in [[Engineering]] from Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas, at which in 1982 he was the captain of the Hutchinson Blue Dragons [[football]] team.<ref name=ciclt>{{cite web|url=http://www.ciclt.net/sn/pol/po_detail.aspx?P_ID=&ClientCode=nclm&MemID=27018|title=Mathew W. Pitsch|publisher=ciclt.net|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}</ref>  

 

He was reared in several communities in [[Nebraska]] and [[Kansas]], where his father was a teacher and a coach of various sports. In 1983, he received an Associate of Arts in [[Engineering]] from Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas, at which in 1982 he was the captain of the Hutchinson Blue Dragons [[football]] team.<ref name=ciclt>{{cite web|url=http://www.ciclt.net/sn/pol/po_detail.aspx?P_ID=&ClientCode=nclm&MemID=27018|title=Mathew W. Pitsch|publisher=ciclt.net|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}</ref>  

Pitsch is chairman of the Bethel [[Lutheran]] Church–Missouri Synod, a [[Christian]] denomination in Fort Smith.<ref name=mwp/><ref name=ciclt/> His paternal grandmother, Eunice "LeOra" Mathew Pitsch (1915–2006) of Sheridan, the wife of his grandfather, Alexander Pitsch, became in 1969 the founding president of the Wyoming District of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League. An active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Sheridan, she conducted devotional services at the Sheridan Manor nursing facility for more than fourteen years prior to her death.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/obituaries/eunice-leora-pitsch/article_0c736b6e-118f-59f7-8dde-8727cffabaa6.html|title=Eunice "LeOra" Pitsch obituary|publisher=''The Casper Star-Tribune''|date=September 6, 2006|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref>

Pitsch is chairman of the Bethel [[Lutheran]] Church–Missouri Synod, a [[Christian]] denomination in Fort Smith.<ref name=mwp/><ref name=ciclt/> His paternal grandmother, Eunice "LeOra" Mathew Pitsch (1915–2006) of Sheridan, the wife of his grandfather, Alexander Pitsch, became in 1969 the founding president of the Wyoming District of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League. An active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Sheridan, she conducted devotional services at the Sheridan Manor nursing facility for more than fourteen years prior to her death.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/obituaries/eunice-leora-pitsch/article_0c736b6e-118f-59f7-8dde-8727cffabaa6.html|title=Eunice "LeOra" Pitsch obituary|publisher=''The Casper Star-Tribune''|date=September 6, 2006|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref>