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could remember the smallest details of things like this. It was truly amazing. So I know that she spoke accurately about being baptized by Mrs. Sype. She recalled how Mr. Sype stayed home and did the housework and Mrs. Sype did the preaching and the ministerial duties ….
Sincerely yours, Thomas E. Durst
2.5 Letter from Evelyn Robeson Faust, Cerritos, California, to the writer, July 27, 1984
Dear Josephine Benton,
About 1914 when I was a little girl about seven years old and lived in Carroll, Iowa, Mrs. Minnie Sype came to Carroll to hold a series of meetings.
My father, Oscar W. Robeson, took his three girls Genevieve, Vivian, and Evelyn— I am Evelyn— to the meetings every night( my mother was deceased), and at the close of her meetings he accepted the Adventist message. He was an Adventist until his death, and we girls have stayed in the truth all our lives ….
Sincerely, Evelyn Robeson Faust
2.6 Letter from Mariel Jean Blaine, Redlands, California, to the writer, July 28, 1984
Dear Dr. Benton:
… My mother-in-law, Dorothy Pelmulder Blaine Kistler, was baptized by Minnie Sype in Lake City, Iowa, in the Raccoon River, at age 12 or 13, in 1913 or 1914.
“ Grandma” remembers Minnie Sype holding tent meetings in a church yard which adjoined her family’ s back yard in Grant City, Iowa ….
Yours sincerely, Mariel Jean Blaine( Mrs. Cyril Blaine)
2.7 Excerpt from a telephone conversation between C. Joy Estes, Los Angeles, California, and the writer, January 16, 1989
BENTON: How are you related to Mrs. Kistler? ESTES: I’ m Dorothy’ s daughter.
BENTON: It’ s your impression that your mother was baptized by Minnie Sype? ESTES: Yes, she was. Mrs. Sype was an unusual person. She definitely baptized my mother. BENTON: What was your mother’ s name?
ESTES: My mother’ s name was Dorothy Pelmulder, and she came from a little town called Grant City, Iowa ….
2.8 Letter from Mrs. Hilda West, So. Cle Elum, Washington, to the writer, 1984
… Sr. Sype was our dear pastor over 50 years ago in Cle Elum. We loved her very dearly; also she was a worker like you never saw …. As you might well remember our pastors’ salary was very very small. So she would go out and sell our
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