TRANSCRIPT
CD - Connie Duncan, interviewee [with her daughter, Aileen Duncan (AD) present] / LR - Lyn Royce, interviewer
CD: After Reverend Stewart passed away, and, uh, we were so much in debt, that uh, we started the choir; a senior choir sang the first Sunday of every month to a group.
LR: Okay.
CD: Say the Kiwanis, uh, the Kinsmen, the Lions; and that's how we got the money to pay off the mortgage. It was...
LR: For the church. Ah, okay.
CD: All they did, was just nothing but singing.
LR: So it was a concert. Was it spiritual music?
CD: Spiritual music, the whole thing.
LR: The whole thing. And that would, when would they sing then, Sunday afternoon?
CD: Sunday night.
LR: Sunday night!?
CD: Sunday night at 7 o'clock.
LR: Okay. So that was with the service at 7? Or... No. This was...
CD: No, no. No service on that night.
LR: No services with them. Okay.
CD: I think Reverend Holl, uh, Holland got up and he said a few words; he said prayer...
LR: Okay.
CD: ...and then the choir start singing. Now then afterwards it would be a few words and a prayer and the choir sang. That's all it was, no service, sermon or anything.
LR: Oh my... Okay, alright... very...
CD: [coughs]
LR: Very creative way to, uh...
CD: So that's how we, uh...
LR: Fund the church.
CD: Got the, uh, mortgage.
LR: mhmm.
CD: Our church mortgage paid for.
LR: So when did you finally have it paid off?
CD: What year? I forget. [19]'30... '38?
LR: Okay...
CD: Was it 1938?
LR: That's not too long.
CD: No, it didn't take us long...
LR: No.
CD: ...because I mean we had the service in the morning and at noon...
LR: Right.
CD: ...and the ministers didn't get paid that much.
LR: Right; right...
CD: And it was just the collection that all come in...
LR: mhmm...
CD: ...went to pay for the mortgage. The collec, ah, the collection in the daytime or night-time, the regular service, paid for the...
LR: Minister and other...
CD: ...other church...
LR: ...other expenses of the church. Okay.
CD: Mhmm.
LR: And the church is still here today. Is this still a working church?
CD: Oh yes!