Hunt County, TX - Church: New Baptist Parsonage
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Open House at New Baptist Parsonage May 29
    Work was completed on the parsonage of the First Baptist Church May 9,
1960, and the pastor and his family moved in on May 11.
    The new pastorium was constructed by George Hackney.  Plans and
specifications were drawn up by the building committee, Mrs. W. W. McMichael,
Calvin Stapleton, Ellis Sumrow, Lee McCorstin, Doug Armstrong, and the pastor,
Rev. H. B. Gideon.  The home was designed to meet the needs of the future as
well as the present.  It consists of a spacious living room, three bedrooms,
two baths, kitchen, drive-in garage, and the pastor's study.
    Open House is being planned for the afternoon of May 29, and the public is
invited to come and seethe new parsonage.  (May 20, 1960, The Celeste Courier)

(Before moving into the new parsonage, the Gideons lived at the NE corner of
Sanger and South Eighth Street where the Hortons live today.  The new parsonage
in 1960 was the house next to where Jo Willa Pierson lives today on the east
side of South Fourth Street, I think.  Last preacher/family to live there was
the Ralsons.)