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Beaver Meadows - We Are the Church - 1850 - 2000
Present Day Activities |
In October 1978, Donna Bennett, Charlotte Fassett, Carol Brotzman, and Beverly Brotzman reorganized the Sunday school. Jenella Ryan served as Superintendent. It continued to flourish. Donna Bennett and Carol Brotzman are still there teaching, even though their children have long outgrown Sunday school. Where there are children, there are parents. The church was growing again.
During the next twenty years, the church added vinyl siding, a new roof, and indoor plumbing. The trustees refurbished the dining area in 1996. Donna Bennett gave the kitchen a modern look by crafting all new cabinets. In 1996, Greg Campbell created a welcoming sign for our church as an Eagle Scout project. A new porch was added in the spring of 1998 in memory of the Culver, Sink, and Brotzman families. In April 2000, a new Pavilion was built as a memorial to Walter Sharer and his sister, Grace Bennett. The church is flourishing again.
The photos shown here represent the
church basement under renovation in 1996. The photos are from the Dale and Donna
Bennett Family.
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At Left: From left to
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Ronny Sharer Douglas Duffield Dale Bennett Matt Cobb Randy Campbell Jerry Clapper Herb Button |
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At Right: From Left to
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Herb Button Randy Campbell Truck Driver Matt Cobb |
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At Left: Donna Bennett and her grandson, Bryan Bennett, installing the new kitchen cabinets |
| At Right: Greg Campbell with the welcoming sign which was his Eagle Scout Project |
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Spring, 1996
A church is a wonderful place in which the people may enjoy worship and serve God, but it is just a building. A church is really its people. Many of them that made this church what it is lie in the neat, well-kept cemetery directly behind Beaver Meadows.
The Beaver Meadow Cemetery Association
was organized after E. W. Cobb agreed to sell one and a half acres of land
connected to the old burial grounds of the Beaver Meadow Union Church on August
30, 1893. Nathan Cobb and John Freeman Clapper were to represent the
congregation in this venture. The church actually sits on the cemetery
association's land. The deed for the original burial grounds and the land where
the church is located was recorded on March 2, 1965.
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