Word: borchardt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Brother Tom said the money was going to be used for noble purposes-a mammoth choir loft to be raised and lowered by push button, a glass-enclosed baptistery similarly operated, a big electric Escalator running from nave to altar. But none of these things materialized. Mrs. Freeda Borchardt, once the Pattens' cleaning woman, explained forlornly that she and her husband had coughed up $2,800 after Brother Tom referred to her during a church service as "the meanest woman in Oakland...