METHODIST
PROTESTANT CHURCH
LEWES,
DELAWARE
Wilmington
Evening Journal, Saturday, October 31, 1908
Lewes,
Oct. 31 - Groome Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church will be
dedicatd on Sunday, November 22. The speakers to take part in the
exrercises are the Rev. W. R. Graham, the Rev. H. O. Keen of
Georgetown, The Rev. G. R. McCready of Milton, the Rev. D. L.
Johnson of Georgetown, and the Rev. J. D. Smith.
Wilmington
Evening Journal, Friday, March 13, 1908
Rev.
H.O. Keen, pastor of Groome Church, Lewes, has been donated a
building lot adjoining the church in that town by Charles G. Groome
and Miss Lillie of Philadelphia upon which to erect a parsonage. The
church is named in honor of their mother, Mrs. Ann Grooome, who
recently died.
Wilmington
Evening Journal, Thursday, October 22, 1908
The
new Groome Memorial Methodist Protestant Church will be dedicated on
November 12, when prominent speakers from all over Delaware and
Maryland will be present. It is the first Methodist Portestent church
to be erested in Lewes and is largely the gift of the Groome family
who contributed the ground and considerable of the money in honor of
their deceased mother.
One
of the features will be a large stained lass window given by the
Delaware Bay and River Pilots Association in memory of their deceased
members.
Wilmington
Evening Journal, Saturday, March 5, 1910
Lewes,
Del. March 5 – with the Closing of the conference year, the Lewes
Groome Memorial Church has a record to be proud of. The Rev. W. W.
Johnson gas raised $3768.57 toward the church dept and this year
expects to reduce the indebtedness by $800. The church which has been
in existence only two years, has a membership of 124 and during the
pastorate of Rev. Mr. Johnson there have been 162 conversions.
Groome
Deaths
The
Salisbury Daily Times, Wednesday, March 5, 1958
Lewes,
Delaware – A member of the Groome Methodist Church, Lewes, who is
a lifelong resident of Sussex county and lived in Lewes the past 25
years, Mrs Laura Truitt Megee Bryan, age 85, widow of Robert
William Bryan, who died in 1953, died Sunday in Beebe Hospital after
a five week illness there. There are twelve children surviving.
The
funeral was held in the Groome Church, conducted by Rev. Edward
Dougherty, pastor of the Groome and Bethel Methodist Church. Burial
was in Bethel Cemetery.
Wilmington
New Journal, Saturday, October 4, 1997
Lewes,
Delaware – A member of the Lewes Groome Memorial Church, Maxine
Smith Cropper Dirks , age 79, of Quaker Road, Lewes, died Wednesday
at home of cancer. She was owner of Maxine's Beauty Shop in
Quakertown and a school bus driver for Cape Helopen Schools. She is
survived by husband Timothy K. Dirks , daughter Janice Pepper of
Milton, brother Joseph Smith of Roxana, three grandchildren and five
great grandchildren.
Services
were in the Groome Church and burial in Henlopen Memorial Park,
Broadkill River.
Groome
Deaths
The
Salisbury Daily Times, Wednesday, March 5, 1958
Lewes,
Delaware – A member of the Groome Methodist Church, Lewes, who is
a lifelong resident of Sussex county and lived in Lewes the past 25
years, Mrs Laura Truitt Megee Bryan, age 85, widow of Robert
William Bryan, who died in 1953, died Sunday in Beebe Hospital after
a five week illness there. There are twelve children surviving.
The
funeral was held in the Groome Church, conducted by Rev. Edward
Dougherty, pastor of the Groome and Bethel Methodist Church. Burial
was in Bethel Cemetery.
Wilmington
New Journal, Saturday, October 4, 1997
Lewes,
Delaware – A member of the Lewes Groome Memorial Church, Maxine
Smith Cropper Dirks , age 79, of Quaker Road, Lewes, died Wednesday
at home of cancer. She was owner of Maxine's Beauty Shop in
Quakertown and a school bus driver for Cape Helopen Schools. She is
survived by husband Timothy K. Dirks , daughter Janice Pepper of
Milton, brother Joseph Smith of Roxana, three grandchildren and five
great grandchildren.
Services
were in the Groome Church and burial in Henlopen Memorial Park,
Broadkill River.
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