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Title
The New Parsonage Family at Rossville U.M.C.
Description
Photo by Belinda Driscoll
THE ROSSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH has a new pastor, the Reverend Gene Damewood. The family is pictured around the pulpit at the church. L-R, front row -- Heather, Tim and Christi. Back row -- Lorene (his wife), Gene and Scott.
by Dorothy N. Hoobler
“I’m really impressed with the people of Rossville,” exclaimed the Reverend Gene Damewood, newly assigned pastor of the Rossville United Methodist Church. “They’re a very strong people to have endured both the windstorm and the flood of early June so well,” he added. The way people have “bounced back” does, indeed, indicate a strong community. Gene and Lorene Damewood were lucky, they agreed. Because remodeling was being done at the parsonage to accommodate the family, the Damewoods had not yet moved in when swollen Cross Creek went on its rampage. It filled the parsonage basement with only seven feet of water, while the muddy water reached a depth of eight feet in the church basement which serves as the fellowship hall. The Reverend Damewood said no specific decisions had been made yet about the future use and repair of the basement area.
Tall and dark-haired, Gene Damewood was born and reared in Clarinda, Ia. He attended St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, and was fully ordained in 1963. Reverend Damewood has served in various churches in Kansas, and came to Rossville from Uniontown, in the southeastern part of the state.
Lorene, who grew up in Kansas City, Mo., has an educational background in elementary education and has done substitute teaching. A graduate of Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, she earned her Master’s degree at University of Kansas City. She’s much too busy now with cooking, sewing, and family activities to be very involved in hobbies. The Damewood children are Christi, 17, who will be a senior at Rossville High School; twins Tim and Scott, 14, who will be freshmen; and ten-year-old Heather, a fifth grade student.
“We also have a dog named Robert, a 'mostly mutt’ that half the town already knows from our daily walks with him,” she added with a smile. Scott and Tim will attend Camp Chippewa in August, and Christi is excited about a mission work camp in New Mexico. Held on the Navaho Reservation, Christi and other campers will be teaching Bible School classes.
Because of the involvement of their own children, too, the Reverend Damewood is especially interested in the church’s youth program. He also intends to do a lot of pastoral calling. Members of the Rossville United Methodist Church congregation and others in the community interested in meeting the Damewoods are invited to a get- acquainted ice cream social and fellowship time on Sunday evening, July 25. It will begin at 6 p.m. in the Rossville City Park. Can you think of a nicer way to spend a hot July evening?
THE ROSSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH has a new pastor, the Reverend Gene Damewood. The family is pictured around the pulpit at the church. L-R, front row -- Heather, Tim and Christi. Back row -- Lorene (his wife), Gene and Scott.
by Dorothy N. Hoobler
“I’m really impressed with the people of Rossville,” exclaimed the Reverend Gene Damewood, newly assigned pastor of the Rossville United Methodist Church. “They’re a very strong people to have endured both the windstorm and the flood of early June so well,” he added. The way people have “bounced back” does, indeed, indicate a strong community. Gene and Lorene Damewood were lucky, they agreed. Because remodeling was being done at the parsonage to accommodate the family, the Damewoods had not yet moved in when swollen Cross Creek went on its rampage. It filled the parsonage basement with only seven feet of water, while the muddy water reached a depth of eight feet in the church basement which serves as the fellowship hall. The Reverend Damewood said no specific decisions had been made yet about the future use and repair of the basement area.
Tall and dark-haired, Gene Damewood was born and reared in Clarinda, Ia. He attended St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, and was fully ordained in 1963. Reverend Damewood has served in various churches in Kansas, and came to Rossville from Uniontown, in the southeastern part of the state.
Lorene, who grew up in Kansas City, Mo., has an educational background in elementary education and has done substitute teaching. A graduate of Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, she earned her Master’s degree at University of Kansas City. She’s much too busy now with cooking, sewing, and family activities to be very involved in hobbies. The Damewood children are Christi, 17, who will be a senior at Rossville High School; twins Tim and Scott, 14, who will be freshmen; and ten-year-old Heather, a fifth grade student.
“We also have a dog named Robert, a 'mostly mutt’ that half the town already knows from our daily walks with him,” she added with a smile. Scott and Tim will attend Camp Chippewa in August, and Christi is excited about a mission work camp in New Mexico. Held on the Navaho Reservation, Christi and other campers will be teaching Bible School classes.
Because of the involvement of their own children, too, the Reverend Damewood is especially interested in the church’s youth program. He also intends to do a lot of pastoral calling. Members of the Rossville United Methodist Church congregation and others in the community interested in meeting the Damewoods are invited to a get- acquainted ice cream social and fellowship time on Sunday evening, July 25. It will begin at 6 p.m. in the Rossville City Park. Can you think of a nicer way to spend a hot July evening?
Creator
St. Marys Star, St. Marys, Kansas
Publisher
Rossville Community Library
Date
July 20, 1982
Rights
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Format
newspaper clipping
Identifier
RCL0530
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