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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 2020-11-16T12:26:27-08:00 Rev. Theron George Lansford 2 plain 2020-11-16T12:32:58-08:00 The Rev. Theron G. Lansford was born in Denton, Texas, on 13 June 1931, the son of Marcus Leslie and Lucille (Wallis) Lansford. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Texas in 1957 and a Master's degree in 1959. He married Mary Elizabeth Cook on 31 March 1960 in Williamson, Texas. He became a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas and later at Tri-State University in Angola, and while there supported the mission of Holy Family as a parishioner and lay reader. He then decided to read for orders under Bishop Klein, who ordained him a deacon in 1971 and a priest in 1972. He served as priest in charge of Holy Family, from 1974 to 1980. In later years he served as interim rector of Grace Church in Fort Wayne from 2000 to 2001, and he returned as vicar of Holy Family from 2005 to 2006. He died in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on 10 September 2015.