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From the
DETROIT
Conference of
The Methodist Church
COMMISSION ON PUBLIC RELATIONS AND METHODIST INFORMATION
JUNE 1964
PRESS BOOM
UETROIT ANNUAL CONFEREtlCE
I !bDIITE RELEASE
A.DR1Alf , MICHI GAN
I'aul Amstutz
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Reverend Ralph H. £edson , pastor of t he Owosso Circuit
of The Methodist Church, r etired at t he 12,3rd Session of the Detroit
Annual Conference of lofhe Methodist Church on June 17, 1964, at Adrian
College, Adrian, Michigan.
Before enter i ng t he minist ry the Reverend Dods on was a
teacher .
\<.b en ho rotires be will serve aa t:J&l"t-ti me t rofeas or of
Oeology at Owosso Coll ege i n Owosso, Mi chigan.
Re ve rend Dodson was admitted On Trial in t he minis t ry in the
Tennoeseo Conf erence and t hen was r ece i ved in Full Membership in 1930
i n t he St . Lou1a Confer ence.
Conferoncos :
Ho bo.s serve" chur chos 1n t he fol lo-wing
7'enne saao . Homph1a , St . Louis, Arizona, and Detroit .
Rovere nd t odson has ha d vari ed exporionoes .
President of tho I n t ernational Friendshi p
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i n Owosso .
as President ot John Wos l ey College 1952-1956 i n
Carolina .
He is Vice
llo served
~reens boro. ~orth
A year of missionary work in Japan and ov ngel 1atie work
in Korea , J'npan, Formosa , Hong Kong , and the Phil l i pinoa wore some
of tho many 1nterest1n8 exper iences which he has had.
Reverend and Mrs . Dodson are the parents of t broo ehildven .
'lbeir oldost s on, . dw1n , 1s corporation lawyer of
ar ylona Casualty Co .
Another son , Edmond, i s Cash ier and Vi ce ! resident, Camden State Dank
i n Camden,
~1 1ch1gan .
Their only dau!fhtor,
<lrand Cilnyon Collega 1n 1-'hoenix, Arizona .
ather , is a junior 1n
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Re ve r end Lodson has his M. A. De gr ee at George Peabody Se hool
in Nashville ,
~ ennessee .
De bas olso t oken c r aduatc work at Mi ch i gan
State Unive r sity.
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REV. RALPH H. DODSON, professOi·
of geology at Owoss o College and a
member of the Detroit Confer ence, ha s
been asked by the Gene r al Boa rd of Missions of the Pilgrim Church to go as a
missionary to the Philippine I sla nds. He
will conduct an evang elis tic crusade in
the cities as well a s the rural ar eas
where he worked ,,·hen he was there
nine years ag o. He pla nned to leave May
29 and stay about three months , with
the last two weeks spent on the campus es
of two Pilgrim Bible Colleges there.
REV. RALPH H. DODsm1.1 t ; k!d
member of the Detroit Conference, who
ha s been teaching geology in the Science
Depa rtment at Owosso College, Owosso,
for the last eight years, has resigned his
pos ition effective June 1, a nd will go to
the Philippines for a year of evangelism.
Mr. D odson was in the Philippines last
summer under the auspices of the Board
of W orld Missions of the Pilgrim Church
and worked for four months with diff erent missionary groups. In January of
this year he was asked by Dr. Camilo
Toledo, superintendent of the Central
Mindao District in the Mindao Conference of Philippine Methodism, to return
and lead their conference in a program
of evangelism. Mr. Dodson has accepted
the invitation and will be accompanied
by Mrs. Dodson and Charles Lyons who
will be his secretary and also conduct
the music for the crusades. They pla n
to leave Owosso about June 15.
REV. AND MRS. RALPH H.
o81s~#Jele
~onored on their 50th wedding anniversa ry
~~ Oran, Missou ri, whe re M r. Dodson is in
h1 s sec~nd year as pas to r o f Trin ity United
~et~od1s t Church. Ralph Harris Dodson and
B1rd1e louise Crawford w ere married june
24 , 1923, at De xter, M isso ur i . They have
spent 50 ye.ars i n th e ministry, se rving in 20
states and f1ve foreign countries. The couple
has three ch ild ren , Gwen Edwin of Phoenix
A rizona , Edmond of Farmington and Esthe;
Janes of Owosso ; and eight grandchildren.
They also have a foster son o f Dallas Texas
w ho ha~ a c hild . The Go lden W~dding
Celebration wa_s sponsored by their ch il dren ,
who were ass1sted by mem be r s of Trin ity
Church. Mr. Dodson is a reti red member of
the Detroit Conference.
REV. RALPH H . DODSON , a retired
member of the Detro it Conference now
li v ing at 404 Vi rginia Avenue, Sikeston,
Mo ., his boyhood home to w n, is b eing
kept qui t e busy su ppl ying p u lpi ts w here a
need ari ses, and cond ucti ng a f ew
reviv als. O n Sun day, Octo ber 31, he
preached at t he Campbell , M issouri , :
U ni ted M ethod ist Churc h and baptized
t he t hree-week-o ld daughter o f the
pasto r, Rev. Vaughn Marsden and h is
w ife.
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REV. AND MRS. RALPH H. DODSON,
formerly of Owosso, are now residing at
904 North Coolidge A venue, Casa Grande,
Arizona 85222. Mr. Dodson, a r etired member of the Detroit Conference, and Mrs.
Dodson would welcome visits fr om any
of their Michigan friep ds who mj~ht be
traveling in the area. <:f - ,.2
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RE V. RALPH H . DODSON, r etired
member of the Detroit Confe rence Jivin g
in Owosso, will leave June 17 for Arizona
where he will 'b e the speaker for a statewide Youth Convention in Fla,g s taff,
June 29-July 7. F rom A•rizona he will go
to West Kentucky and Sout hea st Missouri for services in churches w here he
previously worked, including a two-week
re vival in his home churc'h neaT East
Prairie, Mo., where he served a s pastor
for two years and was principal of the
elementary school. Rev. a nd Mrs. D odson r ecently gave an organ bo Cent ral
Methodi st Church in Davao City, Philippin es, where Mr: Dodson served as copastor in 1966-67. Through g if ts f rom
fri ends in America the Dodsons secured
Methodist Hymnals for this churC'h a nd
t wo other Methodi st churches. b- b - 08
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REV. AND MRs. R~P4f 1J. DODSON
of Casa Grande, Aritona, plahoto leave
in early June for a visit to the east and
northern part of the U .S. Their schedule
ca.lls for a visit to Michigan about the
middle of ~Ugust when they will spend
a month With their children in owosso
Prior to that Mr. Dodson, a retired mem~
her of the Detroit conference ·n
duct
revival services 1·n !"rebraska
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Louis, llla tthrws; 1'139 Hell C ot y; 1 9~0
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College; 1''5o ~! , _, i J:tarv t n l apo::. 1957
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Dodson, Ralph H.