Word: elder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Farmer's father, Dean Farmer Sr., spoke at the Hancock Hall meeting about how he had come to accept his son's faith over five years. Despite hesitation on the elder Farmer's part, his son eventually persuaded him to attend services and talk to people in the church...
...Southern Baptist, the elder Farmer was shocked by the affection members showed to one another, "hugging my neck," he said...
...gave him the Bible to re-read, and then the two began to "study the Bible" for three or four hours a day. Last March, the elder Farmer was baptized by his son, and soon afterwards he baptized his wife...
...elder Farmer urged church members to not give up in their attempts to convert their parents...
...dinner table, Pop preached an anticommunism that was as fervent as his Catholicism. He was an intimidating, authoritarian figure who revered Senator Joseph McCarthy and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The elder Buchanan proudly reminded his brood that they were the descendants of Mississippi Confederates who fought to save Old Dixie. Not for the Buchanans the Leave It to Beaver homilies of backyard-barbecue morality. Pop fostered a sense of clannishness, of us-against-them resentment that made his children ever vigilant. Pat attended Mass each day, prayed every night and made the sign of the Cross before basketball free throws...