Bethel UMC Homecoming Photos
1959 Homecoming
These pictures were provided by Marshall Woodall
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(Using the "125th Anniversary" frosting on the cake and the year of 1834 for the founding of Bethel, would seem to make this 1959)
Here's a mystery for you...the "picture" of the church on the cake has the narthex (added in 1970)
without the steeple (added in 1972). A notation on a picture for the 1962 homecoming indicates it was
a 115th celebration, figuring from the 1847 date of Bethel's coming to its current location (affirming the belief that the written church history in a 1947 membership book was for a centennial observation). That would make this "125th Anniversary" take place in 1972.
Still, cars pictured in the black & white photos would seem to bear out a late 1950's date for this homecoming. So it would appear that this collection of pictures came from two different celebrations.
What do you think?
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