Word: ortemon
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...morning Mrs. Lula V. Ortemon, one of the catechism teachers, started out to church. Near the church door she found a group waiting. At least three women began pummeling her with their fists and chopping at her with their shoe heels. Mrs. Ortemon filed assault-and-battery charges against two of them...
...took drastic action. To Erath he dispatched a monsignor to read a letter of excommunication at all Sunday Masses of Our Lady of Lourdes. No individual was named, but those who had caused "a scandal to the church, a scandal to the community" by committing violence against Teacher Ortemon were denied the Sacraments, participation in the Church's prayers, and Christian burial? until they repented...
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