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(1965 July 31)

[Father Hamilton announced his resignation as the Sunday service was beginning.] The tension was tight tight tight. Suddenly in the middle of the Epistle over he went flat on his back, fainting dead away and giving his head a good bump on the step ledge. Helen Dixon screamed, "I knew it. I knew it. I knew something like this was going to happen." Dorothy [Lenz] ran up with heart pills and the men went up. Jackie, acolyte, was dispatched to the oil station [next to the rectory] to call Dick Edwards, his doctor, also the ambulance. Don Lenz ran next door for his wife, who had gone home and changed her dress, becoming too sick and nervous to stay for the service at all. By the time the amblance got there, he came to enough to tell everyone he would not go the the hospital. So - it was $25 spent to carry him next door to his bed. Then we all went home.