Miss Anna Starkey Mountain Missionary in Ky 33 Years
Miss Anna Starkey, an English professor and dean of Women at Clear Creek Duplist School, shares how a Kansas teacher came to Kentucky to serve. She moved from Pittsburg State to Perry County in 1938 as a summer missionary, later taught in Pulaski County and worked as a children's worker near San Francisco before returning to Kentucky in 1943 amid wartime shortages.
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Pineville
Plains of
Kansas
Kentucky
Anna Starkey
Ieufessor
Clear Creek
Perry County
Miss Starkey
Christian Friendship Center
San Francisco
California
San Francisco Siate College
Starkey recalls 33 years in Kentucky mountains as educator
Miss Starkey offered a teaching post at Magoffin Baptist Institute near Jackson, Kentucky. She describes winters, no indoor plumbing, a well pump, and walking miles for church duties. She served Magoffin 15 years as principal and dorm mother, then joined Clear Creek Baptist School in Pineville as English teacher and dean of women. She continues Sunday school work and visits Kansas to see her mother, expressing fulfillment after three decades in the mountains.
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Magoffin Baptist Institute
Jackson
Magoffin
Starkey
Magaffin
Mliss Starkey
Clear Creek Baptist School
Pineville
Carl Mullins
Chat Creek
Miss Starkey
Kansas
Nellie Starkey
Whipple Baptist Balkan
Kentucky
Dr Aldridge Fulfills Missionary Dream in Mountain Region
Dr Dennis Merrill Aldridge rises from professor to president at Clear Creek Baptist School in Kentucky to fulfill a lifelong call as a missionary educator. The article traces his roots in Illinois and Tennessee, seminary training, leadership at Bagotin Mountain Valley, and the school’s growth under his twenty two year tenure including enrollment, finances, campus expansion, and a 100 station radio ministry reaching 17 states.
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Pineville
Dennis Merrill Aldridge
Clear Creek Baptist School
Jewell Helen Aldridge
William C. Aldridge
Clear Creek
Gallatin County
Illinois
Aldridge
Eldorado
North America
Harrisburg
Hinoi
College Heights
South “America
Baptist Church
Eldorado Ilinois Baptist Chural
Minnis Baptist Student Union
Southern Baptist Convention
Kathleen
Kay) Deakins
Tennessee Baptist Student Union
D. M. Aldridge
Aldridges
William
Bill
Madisonville
David
Lexington
John
Lancaster
Abbidge
Grundy County
Tennessee
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
University of Kentucky
Latin American Biblical Seminary
Bagotlin Baptist Institute
Mountain Valley
Kentucky
Clear Creek Country
Kentucky Mountains
Apache Language Dictionary Compiled by Rev and Mrs Perry
Rev and Mrs E Perry of TINEMILIE Kentucky and the White Mountain tribe near Phoenix are compiling an Apache dictionary to preserve heritage. The work, aided by Smithsonian translators, outlines a two consonant five vowel system and notes regional translation gaps. The Perrys hope youth will learn to write and pass down elder stories.
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Tinemilie
Edgar Perry
Corrine
Perrys
White Mountain
Phoenix
Arizona
Doctor L C Kelley Pioneer of Clear Creek School Vision
Dr L C Kelley founder of Clear Creek School and Pineville pastor led a regional Bible training effort for mountain ministers. He envisioned a training campus in Bell County and oversaw a 700 acre site with Kelly Hall. His wife Gladys McNiel served as librarian and secretary. A memorial endowment and a chair in Bible interpretation are being pursued as the school marks fifty years.
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L. C. Kelly
Dr. Kelly
Clear Creek Baptist School
L.€. Kelly
Clear Creek Springs Mountain Preachers School
Hts
Pineville
First Baptist Church
Kelly
J.C. Helton
LC. Kelly
L.C. Kelley
Clear Creek School
J. Kelly
Southern Baptists
Clear Creek
Clear Creek Springs
Mountain Preachers Bible School
Bell County
Biz Clear Creek
Little Clear Creek
Kentucky Baptists
Gladys McNiel
Jonesville
L.C. Kelly
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Perry
Hey. Edgar Perry
Hils
Derring
Ausund
Nev
Dr. Aldridge
Ulinsis
People of the
Christ
Pineville School
Baptist Bible Institute
D.M. Aldridge
E.perry
T Heir Rite
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
San Carlos
Charles Mector
Anersead
Calinges
Delaware
Giscard WireGong
Branig
Vad
Cac
Sign of the Times
H.P
Cumberland
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