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► NASHUAChurch’s walls didn’t stop Bishop Newman’s ministry■ Family recalls the manJwhose charity knew noJbounds.Ky DAVID ARONOVICH Telegraph Staffrowing up poor in one of Nashua's few black families, Estee Newman’s children didn’t always understand why their father gave money to other families when they had so little. “He'd give away money most of the time,” one of his daughters, Ruth Choate, 47, said Monday. “There were times I'd need shoes•jmt h/’a cjv ‘W/»» hfivR to iv.iv thf mortoam1on the church this week. You'll have to wait until next week.’ ”For more than 50 years. Bishop Estee J. Newman helped the needy in Nashua by performing endless charitable works. Sometimes he gave people money; other times he helped them find a job or a place to live. As a minister, he prayed for them all.Newman, 88, who started a Pentecostal church in a shanty in Nashua more than 50 years ago, died Dec. 20 of a heart attack.His funeral will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the New England Pentecostal Ministries in Pelham — for several years the home of the church he helped found.Newman is survived by his wife. Ida Bell Newman, 10 of his 14 children, as well as 54KKUOI Poor ISTelegraph tile photoBishop Estee Newman started a Pentecostal church in a shanty in Nashua more than 50vAArs Ann
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Nashua, New Hampshire, US
Tue, Dec 27, 1994
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