Word: gourley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...
Sunday school attendance, said Brother Gourley, had jumped 20% and the turnout for services was better, too. "We're running 35 to 45 worshipers at Fletcher on Sunday, 65 at Ebenezer and 50 at Pimento . » The three district churches had raised more than $2,000 for such improvements as the Ebenezer's new electric organ, an oil furnace and wallpaper for the parsonage...
...overhauling, but a $50 donation started off a collection that briskly raised enough to cover the debt and put an extra ?40 into the fund for an oil heater. Brother Robinson glowed. Finances were looking up and the young people were again taking an interest in church. Brother Gourley ran his eyes proudly over the chapel as the late afternoon sun flooded through its new windows. Said he: "We have great hopes...
Born. To Comedian George Jessel, 43, and ex-Showgirl Lorrain Gourley ("Lois Andrew") Jessel, 17: a daughter, Jerilynn, 6 Ib. 12 oz.; in Hollywood...
Engaged. Comedian George Jessel, 42; and Lois Andrew (Lorain Gourley), 16, who once punched Producer George White in the eye; he for the third time (wife No. 1, Florence Courtney; No. 2, Norma Talmadge); in Manhattan. Said Mama Gourley, 33: "I have no objections to early marriages. I was married at 16 myself. I've been divorced seven years." Said Papa Gourley, Los Angeles police official, by wire: "POSITIVELY FORBID YOU TO MARRY ANYONE WITHOUT MY CONSENT...