Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EDNA VOORHEES DAWSON...
Father Divine set his heavenly hosts a-caroling with a glorious revelation: in order to "propagate virtue" and "give our whole civilization a new birth of freedom" he had taken unto himself a new wife. She was Edna Rose Ritchings, a 21-year-old blonde from Vancouver, but, Father Divine was careful to make clear...
...Edna, declared the ancient (seventyish), roly-poly Messiah, was reincarnated the spirit of his first wife, Mother Divine, who died a few years ago. "Trace your thoughts back to what Mother said," Father urged his sheep. "She wants everybody to love me. . . ." Also, this was a spiritual deal-"not the marriage of a natural...
...celebrating began in Philadelphia. "It's wonderful," cried the banquet guests, and plunged into fried chicken, roast beef, short ribs, fish, seven vegetables, five kinds of bread, ice cream in three flavors, and two cakes. Edna, half a foot taller than the groom, sat quietly at the head table with two red roses in her hair. The happy couple moved on to Newark for another spell of rejoicing. Edna wore artificial gardenias. Over the banquet board glowed a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table...
Back in Vancouver, Edna's mother refused to talk to reporters. "Everyone liked her," said Edna's father, a fairly well-to-do florist. "She was a fine, healthy girl . . . perfectly normal...