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• 1 media/Holy Family Angola exterior, Sep 2015.jpg 2019-07-13T09:24:10-07:00 Holy Family Episcopal Church, Angola 35 image_header 2020-11-16T12:30:01-08:00 Holy Family in Angola was formed as an unorganized mission in 1951. Bishop Reginald Mallett spent Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday there that year, conferred with many students of Tri-State College as well as townspeople, and held services in the local Methodist Church. About 35 attended the original service and meeting. The ministerial work was placed initially under the care of the Rev. Robert Murphy of Howe. Once the mission was organized formally in 1953, the congregation met in various spaces, including in a fire hall and a student activity building. For a time it also worshiped in a private house, where services were conducted in the living room while the Sunday school met in the kitchen. The pump organ was powered by an Electrolux vacuum cleaner. Later, Tri-State College offered space for worship. The Rev. Leo Maxwell Brown of Coldwater, Michigan, provided early leadership between 1952 and 1957. During the mid-1960s, Holy Family's vicar, George Minnix, served as chaplain to Tri-State College, while Theron Lansford, then a psychology professor, provided early lay leadership for its Canterbury Club. He would later become ordained and serve for many years as its vicar.
  
  Holy Family's present building, its second, was constructed over a three-month span in 1966 and was located at 909 South Darling Street. The project came about after Bishop Klein announced a matching grant if the congregation could raise $4,500. Members compiled a cookbook that helped raise the necessary funds and then poured all of its energies into constructing the building. The grounds feature a memorial garden to parishioner Robert Hanna, and its bell tower is made of steel girders. The bell is dedicated to St. Gabriel. By the 1990s, it had about 50 members, drawing from Michigan and Ohio as well as Indiana.
  
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  Leo Maxwell Brown, 1952-1957
  Allen Alfred Nield, 1957-1958
  Hugh Crichton Edsall, 1961-1963
  George Myers Minnix, 1964-1969
  Donald Duane Dunn, 1969-1970
  Cecil Richard Phelps, 1970-1974
  Theron George Lansford, 1974-1980
  Leo Maxwell Brown, 1980-1985
  Philip Morgan, 1985-1986
  Richard Logan Matthews, 1987-1992
  Jeffrey Dean Lee, 1992-1994
  John Philip Carver, 1994-1998
  Samuel Nsengiyumva, 2000-2003
  Theron George Lansford, 2005-2006
  Michael Thomas Fulk, 2007-2016
  Thomas Adamson, 2017-
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1 2020-11-16T11:50:20-08:00 Rev. Leo Maxwell Brown 1 plain 2020-11-16T11:50:20-08:00 The Rev. Leo Maxwell Brown was born in Mishawaka, Indiana, on 25 February 1915, the son of Elmer Lewis and Mable Grace (Ledgerwood) Brown. He received a degree from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti in 1939, and studied theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, graduating in 1943, the same year he was ordained both a deacon and priest. He married Catherine Mary Woodward on 28 June 1941. He was rector of St. Andrew's in Taft, California, from 1943 to 1945. He then became priest-in-charge of St. Thomas Church in Avenal, California, from 1944 to 1945, holding several diocesan offices. He came to Michigan after World War II, serving at Good Shepherd in Allegan from 1945 to 1950, as well as priest-in-charge of St. Francis in Orangeville, Michigan, from 1946 to 1950. He then moved to Coldwater to become rector of St. Mark's from 1950 to 1960, during which time he helped organize Holy Family Church in Angola, Indiana. He moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1963 as rector of St. Matthias, remaining there until 1980. During these years he taught classes at Nashotah House. In 1980 he returned to Indiana as vicar of Holy Family in Angola, remaining there until his retirement in 1985. He then moved back to Wisconsin, where he served various interim rectorships. He died in Madison, Wisconsin, on 13 January 2004 and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison.