"Your Dad got a big laugh out of the letter you wrote about the [Nazarene] church you visited. He carried the letter around & let several read it. I know just what you ran into. We lived by three or four families in Wichita that belong to that church. Everytime we turned the ice cream freezer on Sun the old lady next door would go up in her closet and shut the door & pray loud enough for us so all the neighbors could hear. While she was doing this her own family were just staggering in from an all nite dance & brawl."
-- Letter from Ada Lenz, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Sidney DeVere Brown, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Thursday February 6, 1944. Ada Lenz was a neighbor of my grandparents.
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