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DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
News Of The Churches
(Continued from Page 2 B)
CARVERTON: 10 a.
School
11 a. m, Worship
Easter Sunday: 6 a. m. Sunrise
Services (This service will NOT be
identical with the regular services.)
Ta. m. Easter breakfast. Nominal
charge, fellowship—plan to stay.
CENTER MORELAND METHODIST
Rev. J. Edwin Lintern, Pastor
ALL CHARGE:
Thursday: 8 p. m. Maundy Thurs-
day Communion Service in Center
Moreland.
Friday: 8 a. m: to 8 p. m. Prayer
Vigil in Dymond Hollow
8 p. m. Good Friday Evening Ser-
vice in Dymond Hollow with special
music by the combined choirs.
Easter Sunday: 6 a. m. Sunrise
Service in East Dallas; meet at the
church at 5:50; if weather permits,
service will be held outdeors; if
weather is unfavorable, service will
be held in the church.
EAST DALLAS:
“ Members unable to attend the
Sunrise Service. are urged to attend
Morning Worship in Dymond Hollow
or Center Moreland. Sunday Church
School 10:15 a. m.
DYMOND HOLLOW:
Sunday: Morning Worship 10:15,
sermon, “The Birthday of Our Eter-
nity’"; Sunday Church School 11:15
CENTER MORELAND:
Saturday: 10:30 a. m. MYF Easter
Egg Hunt for pre-school and first
grade children.
Sunday: Church School 10 a. m.;
Morning Worship 11:15 a. m.
Monday: Official Board 7:30 p. m.
m. Sunday
DALLAS METHODIST CHURCH
Russell C. Lawry, Pastor’
Sunday: Sunrise Service at the
Dallas Outdoor Theater at 6 a. m.
~ Divine worship at 8:30 and 11 a.m.
Identical services with Special Choric
Speech Choir
Sunday School, 9:45
Senior M. Y. F., 6:30
Intermediate M. Y. F., 6:30
Tuesday: Board of Trustees at 7.
Official Board at 8 p. m.
Senior Girl Scout Troop at 7 p. m.
‘Wednesday: Franklin Bible Class
| in the parsonagd at noon
BLIGHT
' FUNERAL HONE
307 WYOMING AVE. KINGSTON :
PHONE BU 7-3986
W. S. C. S. Executive Board, 7:30
Gir] Scouts 3:15; Brownies 4:15.
Chancel Choir 6:30; Senior Choir
8 p. m.
Girl Scouts at 7 p. m.
| Holy Thursday: Holy Communion
Service at 7:30. The minister will be
assisted by laymen in administering
the elements of the Communion and
they will be served in’ the pews.
A special invitation is extended to
those who find it impossible to
attend their own church.
A nursery will be provided for
small children
A Junior Church will be conducted
| for children 5 to 11 years of age in
the basement of the new building.
LEHMAN-IDETOWN CHARGE
Rev. Kenneth O'Neill, Pastor
Holy Week: Communion services
will be held at 7:30 p. m. in Jackson
on Wednesday, at Lehman on Thurs-
‘day and at Idetown on Friday.
On Good Friday our churches will
unite with the churches of the Back
Mountain Area in the 12 to 3 service.
Easter Sunrise Service at Lehman
' Church at 6:30. Special music, Rev.
Kenneth O'Neill of Plains Methodist
Church will be guest speaker. Fol-
lowing this service an Easter Break-
fast will be served.
HUNTSVILLE METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Charles F.-Gommer, Pastor
Sunday services: morning worship
10 a. m.
Sunday School 11:10
MYF 6:30 p. m.
SHAVERTOWN METHODIST
Rev. Robert DeWitt Yost, Pasto:
Friday: 12 to 3 p. m. Good Friday
Three Hour Service at Trucksville
Methodist Church.
Sunday: 6 a. m. Easter Sunrise
Service at Dallas Outdoor Theatre
9:30 Church School with Classes
for all ages.
11 a. m. Nursery during Church
for pre-school children.
11 a. m. Easter Morning Worship
Tuesday: 4 p. m. Brownies, Troop
115; 7:30 Boy ‘Scouts, Troop 231.
7:45 Nominating Committee Meet-
ing in Chapel Room
Wednesday: 3:30 Girl Scouts,
Troop 75
Thursday: 4 p. m. Junior Choir Re-
hearsal; 7:30 Senior Choir and
Quartet.
Young People confirmed by the
pastor on Palm Sunday were Robert
L. Berlew, Barbara L. Brown, Nancy
L. Brown, Paul L. Campbell, Loren
N. Crispell, Jr., Linda J. Daubert,
Susan E. Davis, Lauren E. Dymond,
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PATRIA
Thursday: Boy Scouts at 7 p. m.; |
John M. Evenson, Ida M. Gillespie,
Stephen E. Kaschenbach, Donald M.
Lawson, Margaret E. Rood, David A. |
Wadas, David L. Williams, Russell H. |
Williams, II, Linda J. Wimmer. |
Baptized on Palm’ Sunday: Janis |
Jane Blackmer, William Keith Black-
mer, David : Wayne Blackmer, |
children of Mr. and Mrs. D. Wayne
Blackmer; Scott Alan Carter, son of |
| Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Carter; Mark
Hettinger Jenkins, son of Mr. and |
| Mrs. Thomas H. Jenkins; = Jane
| Stewart Robinson, Marjorie Prit-
chard Robinson, daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Robinson; James
Wylie Sisco, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. James W. Sisco; Ralph Walter
Swartz, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph W. Swartz.
TRUCKSVILLE METHODIST
CHURCH
(The White Church on the Hill)
Rev. Robert E. Germond, Pastor
Easter Sunday: 6 a. m. Sunrise
Service outside. Rev. Robert E. Ger-
mond will speak. [Following this
| service the Senior M. Y. F. will spon-
| sor a breakfast in the Church. Tick-
ets should be purchased in advance.
8:30 and 11 a.m. Worship services
9:45 a. m. Sunday School
Monday: 8 p. m. Congregational
Meeting
Tuesday: 9 a8. m. Quilters
4:15 p. m. Girl Scouts
8 p. m. Study Committee
‘Wednesday: 10 a. m. Bazaar
‘Workshop SZ
8 p. m. Trustees
Thursday, April 6: 7:30 p. m.
Study Group
No Choir Practice this week
Good Friday service: noon to 3
p. m. Pastors participating in this
! service: First ‘Word, Rev. Robert T.
Webster, Dorranceton Methodist
Church; Second Word, Rev. William
{ Reid, Jr., Carverton Charge; Third
Word, Rev. William ‘Howard, Leh-
! man Charge; Fourth Word, Rev.
' Robert D. Yost, Shavertown; Fifth
Word, Rev. J. Edwin [Lintern, Cen-
| ter Moreland Charge; Sixth Word,
| Rev. Grove Armstrong, Trucksville
| Free Methodist Church; Seventh
, Word, Rev. Russell Lawry, Dallas.
| Special Easter music is planned.
| MOORETOWN ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Rev. William Schell, Pastor
| to 17, home of Mrs.. Wilson Mahoney.
Easter Sunday: sunrise service at
6 a. m.
Friday: 7:30 Missionettes, girls 9 |
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961
siding.
Sunday evening:
6:30; children’s story-time
evening worship 7:45.
Tuesday: prayer service at the
church hall, 7:30 p. m.
Young People
7:30;
Mrs. Sterling Williams
Released From Illness
Mrs. Marie H. Williams would
have been 71 years old on Saturday.
She was released from a long illness
Sunday morning, when she died at
her home on Huntsville Road.
afternoon from the Williams Funeral
Home, Rev. Russell Lawry officiat-
ing, followed by burial in the family
plot at Pine Hill Cemetery, Shick-
shinny. Pallbearers were Ray Titus,
Robert Parry, Wayne Troxell, Harold
Brobst, Robert Brown, and Alvin
Shaffer.
Five years ago Mrs. Williams
suffered from a stroke, from which
she was making good recovery a
year later, when she fell and broke
her hip. Since that time she had
been an invalid, able to be up briefly,
and eventually to bear a little
weight, but requiring nursing care.
A year ago, April 13, her husband,
the late Sterling Williams, president
of Dallas Borough Council, died.
Mrs. Williams, during her fifteen
years of residence in Dallas was a
member of Dallas Methodist Church
and its WSCS. She also belonged to
the Shrine Auxiliary. Before mov-
ing to Dallas, she taught music in
Wilkes-Barre for twenty-eight years.
She was born in Shickshinny,
daughter of the late Thomas C. and
Fannie Yaple Hill. ‘An only child of
an only child, she and her husband
had no children. Surviving are only
distant cousins, but ‘many close
friends, among them Mrs. Frank
Kern, who came on from her home
in Norfolk, Virginia, three weeks
ago, and expects to return to Dallas
in mid-April.
Sunrise Services
Many churches are scheduling
sunrise services Easter morning,
with breakfast to follow, Sunrise
service at Dallas Outdoor Theatre is
planned for 6 a. m., with congrega-
tions remaining in their cars.
Children’s Service
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Morning Worship at 11, sepcial
services with the Junior Class pre-
Special Good Friday services for
! children will be held Friday morning
| at 10:30 at Noxen Methodist Church.
Services were conducted Tuesday |
|
YMCA To Stage Annual Inter-Branch.
Foul-Shooting Contest At Central
Inter - Branch Basketball Foul
Shooting Contest of Wilkes-Barre
YMCA has been announced for Sat-
urday, April 15, at 11:30 a. m.
Winners and runners-up in each
division from Back Mountain and
Memorial Branches and Central
YMCA compete.
Each branch will conduct its own
contest in advance. At the Back
Mountain Branch YMCA it will be
conducted Saturday, April 8, start-
ing at 9 a. m.
The local contest is open to all
youth members of Back Mountain
YMCA. There will be three divi-
sions for girls and three for boys.
Junior divisions will include mem-
bers. up to age 12 (as of December
1, 1960).
Intermediate divisions will include
those from 12 to 15 and Senior divi-
sions from 15.to 18.
Complete contest rules and infor-
mation are available at the Back
Mountain YMCA. All interested ap-
plicants should sign up by Thursday,
April 6 either at the Y’' or with
Robert A. Addison at OR 4-3217.
The monthly Coed Fun Night at!
the Central YMCA will be held Fri- | Teachers College,
day, April 7. Two buses will be;
available to take the swimmers and’
bowlers to Wilkes-Barre. One bus
will load at the Dallas Borough
School at 7 p. m. and the other at
the same time at the Back Mountain
YMCA. Both buses will leave the
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50 cents for members and 75 cents
for non-members.
The Back Mountain Branch YMCA
is a Member Agency of the Wyoming
Valley United Fund.
Mrs. Sarah DeDWitt
Lies At Cedar Crest
Mrs. Sarah Hester DeWitt was
laid to rest Tuesday afternoon in
Cedar Crest Cemetery, following ser-
vices conducted by Rev. Robert
Dafffin, pastor of Memorial Presby-
terian Church, from Disque Funeral
Home.
Pallbearers were Craig Herdman,
William Hoffman, John Porter, Levi
Updyke, Archie Baker and Ray
Gemmel.
Mrs. DeWitt, 66, died Sunday in
Memorial Hospital in Towanda, fol-
lowing a long illness.
She had lived in Trucksville since
1922, moving to this area from Forty
Fort. A graduate of Forty Fort
schools and Bloomsburg State
she taught
Forty Fort for a number of years.
As a small child, she lived in Kun-
kle where her grandparents, Charles
: D. and Hester Baird Kunkle, resided.
Her parents were the late Frederick
and Nellie Kunkle Makinson. She
was her grandmother’s namesake.
She was a member of Memorial
Presbyterian Church in Wilkes-Barre
and its Women’s Association.
Surviving are: her husband Harry;
three sons: Warren, Trucksville;
Paul, Towanda, with whom she had
made her home for a time prior to
her death; and Carl, Wilmington,
Delaware; a brother Carl Makinson,
Forty-Fort; six grandchildren.
The generous man is always just,
and the just who is always generous,
may unannounced approach the
throne of heaven.
On Palm Sunday’
Congregations
Back Mountain churches on
Palm Sunday, the beautifully
sunny weather a preview of
Easter.
At the left, Gate of Heaven
church releases parishioners
after a morning mass. In the
center is Prince of Peace Epis-
cepal church, with many chil-
dren bearing palms.
At the right is St. Paul's
Lutheran church, and beneath
is Shavertown Methodist
church.
James Kozemchak toured the
area on Palm Sunday, snapping
pictures of congregations typical
of the fifty-cdd churches in the
Back Mountain.
stream from
Mrs. Gwen Roushey
Buried At Woodlawn
Mrs. Bradner Roushey, Main
Street, Dallas, was buried in Wood-
lawn Cemetery Monday afternoon.
Officiating at services held at the
Williams Funeral Home were Mrs.
Roushey’s grandson from Dover,
N. J., Rev. Coral Ide, and Rev. Albert
Reining, pastor of Dallas Free Metho-
dist Church.
Mrs. Roushey, 82, died Friday
morning at Nesbitt Hospital, where
she had been admitted the day
before by ambulance.
Mrs. Roushey was born August 18,
1877, at Herrick Township, Susque-
hanna County, a daughter of the late
John and Elizabeth Lewis Thomas.
Before moving to Dallas seven years
ago she had resided in Stroudsburg,
{ Scranton and Trucksville.
She is survived by her husband,
Bradner J., and children: Mrs. John
Ide, Philadelphia; Mrs. Ernest Miers,
Harford; Mrs. Fred Long, Orange-
ville; Thomas B., Fairborn, Ohio;
| Mrs. Torrence Moyer, Jacksonville,
{Pa.; Mrs. Charles Davis, Columbia,
| N. J.; and Lewis J., Newark, Del; a
| sister, Mrs. Jennie Lamb, South
great-grandchildren,
Nesbitt Auxiliary
Shavertown Branch, Nesbitt Auxi-
lary, will hear David Saye and Thel-
ma DeWitt next Friday, April 7, at
1:30 p. m. in St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church parlor. Mr. Saye is admin-
istrator for Nesbitt Hospital, Miss
DeWitt director of nurses.
Surplus Food April 18
Distribution of surplus food wil
ing Tuesday, April 48, 10 a. m. to
2:30 p. m. [Persons receiving sur-
plus food must bring paper bags for
loose commodities, and shopping
bags or cartons for transportation.
GOLDEN GLEAMS
Observe thyself as thy greatest
enemy would do, so shalt thou be
thy greatest friend.
BOUQUETS
HENRY W. GOODMAN
FLORIST
WEST DALLAS
OR 4-6616
CORSAGES
Gibson; also 20 grandchildren and 16 |
take place at Dallas Borough Build- |
SECTION B — PAGE 3
Palm Sunday Crowds Enjoy Balmy Spring Weather
| Stanley A. Grey
| Dies At General
| ‘Stanley A. Grey, native and life-
| long resident of Lake Township was
| buried Tuesday afternoon in Kocher
| Cemetery; following services con-
| ducted by Rev. John Jones from
| Bronson Funeral Home. Pallbearers
were Walter Hoover, Robert Lutz,
| Clarence’ Montross, “Allen, Clifford
and Robert Grey.
| Mr. Grey, 73, suffering from a
| virus, was admitted to General
| Hospital .only two hours before his
| death Friday morning.
| His parents were the late Smith
| and Sarah Wilson Grey. A carpen-
| ter by trade, he was educdted at
{ Lake Township schools. He was a
| member of Outlet Bible Tabernacle.
As a young man, he taught school
at Mountain Springs.
He and his wife, the former Jennie
Hoover, observed their Golden Wed-
ding June 2, 1960.
| Surviving are: his widow; a daugh-
| ter, Mrs. Dorothy Hummell Harveys
Lake RD; a son, Raymond, Harveys
Lake, four grandchildren; two broth-
ers: Corey, Harveys Lake; and
Clarence, Ruggles; a sister, Ida Grey,
Harveys Lake RD; several nieces
and nephews, ’
Miss Anna Holcomb
Invalid For Years
Miss Anna Holcomb, Pioneer
Avenue, Shavertown, was buried
Monday morning in Evergreen
Cemetery. Services were conducted
by Rev. Robert D. Yost, pastor of
Shavertown Methodist Church, of
which Miss Holcomb was a member,
from the Bronson Funeral Home.
Miss Holcomb, 81, died early Fri-
day morning at General Hospital,
where she had been admitted Feb-
ruary 27 by Dallas Community Ama=
| bulance, after breaking her leg in a
| fall. She had remained in traction,
| no reduction of the fracture being
| feasible.
She had been an invalid for years,
| cared for by her sister, Mrs. Walter
| Shaver, with whom she made her
| home.
| ~ She was born in Peabody, Kansas.
| Her parents, the late Alfred and
| Clara Elston Holcomb, moved east
| when she was an infant.
| Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
| Ellis Swingle of Sterling Farms, and
| Mrs. Walter Shaver, Pioneer Avenue;
several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were all nephews:
{ Lambert and Elwood Swingle, Wel-
| lington Shaver, Robert Koons, Jack
| Evans, and Harold Holcomb, Jr.
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Dymond Hollow Has
Five-Year Program
| Dymond Hollow Methodist Church
{ has as a five-year goal a three part
| program:
| Improvement of care of members;
| working toward having four active
| commissions; continuing to train
| young people in churchmanship.
Care of members will include: in-
| creased visitation to home-bound
| members; re-activation of nearby
inactive members; continued at-
tempts to persuade non-resident
members to relate themselves to
churches in. their community; pro-
viding more opportunities for service
by active members.
Members of the Official Board,
beginning May 1, are: ex-officio
stewards, James Bonnie, Helen
Dymond, Ernest Dymond, Jr.; trus-
tees: Glen Eyet, Russell Miller,
Daniel |S. Dymond, Stanley Dymond,
Ernest Dymond, Sr., and Francis
Faux.
Elective stewards: Evelyn Eyet,
Donald Faux, Patricia Coolbaugh,
Marjorie Bonnie, Emily Davenport,
Edgar Barth Anna Clara Dymond,
Stanley Eyet Erma Eyet, Barbara
Miller, Norene Faux, Arthur Cool-
baugh, Jean Race, Gertrude Cool-
baugh, Rosa Dymond, Dorothy
Barth, Anna Miller, Hazel Eyet,
J) Pauline Scott, Edgar Eyet, Russell
{ Faux, Ruth Turk.
Representatives to the Pastoral
Relations Committee are Russell
Faux, James Bonnie, and Harold
Davenport.
Nominating committee: Anna Mil-
ler, Helen Dymond, and Harold
Davenport. 3
‘Holy Week Closings
Holy Week sees children out of
school, and places of business closing
Friday from noon to 3 p. m., to
permit employees to attend Good
| Friday services at the church of their
| choice.
Trouble that looks like a mountain
from a distance, usually is only “%
hill when you get to it.