Tuesday, March 7, 2017

LEWES MEMORIAL METHODIST PROTESTENT CHURCH

 
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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