Word: deltones
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...Means' friends gathered in celebration around a motel bar. "It was a fantastic event," said Richard Pelley, a neighbor who provided homemade wine for the service. "She's worked like hell to get here under some of the worst conditions." Remarked the new priest's husband Delton, "Being a truck driver I've been associated with women drivers before, so it's not really so new." Then he added: "I'm tickled pink...
...ordained," says the informal and modest new priest, who likes to be called Jackie. Born in Peoria, Ill., to a traveling salesman and his wife, both of whom became alcoholics, she attended Catholic schools wherever her father took the family. She dropped out at 16 to marry Delton. The couple settled in Indianapolis, joined the Episcopal Church and raised four children...
...bitch," she recalls, "very dissatisfied with my life and a very unhappy person who channeled my energy in a negative direction." She started to change when she passed her high school equivalency test and became a licensed practical nurse. Then she turned toward the priesthood. At first she and Delton argued so violently over this that they even considered divorce, but "when I found out that he was only afraid that I would be hurt, I understood." She took courses at Catholic and Disciples of Christ seminaries in town and has continued privately directed studies. After being ordained a deacon...
...Rhode Island State Chairman Lawrence McGarry: "McGovern's got draft dodgers going to Miami." The list of party veterans and major officeholders who were shoved out of their delegate seats in Miami Beach reads like a who's who of the Democrats (see box, page 12). Said Delton Houtchens, the Missouri state Democratic chairman who went to Miami Beach as a delegate-at-large: "I came through politics and worked my way up. We didn't do it overnight. These kids in Miami will be there for a lark, and that...
...Delton Conly, according to Fiji officials, had apparently died soon after he had scrawled his signature. Eve had died just a day or two before the sea washed the Wing On up on Vanua Levu. The rest of the story of the 100-day adventure was locked behind the swollen lips of Fern Thompson, who, in critical condition, was carried delirious to an island hospital...