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G. I. F R I D A Y
I wa s born th e f irst child into a home of
ten children. My pa rents were unbeliev ers who knew
l ittl e about the Bible.
Borin a h aying sha ck on
the wild prairie near Corwith , I owa. I became a
farmer boy r a ismg wheat in north ern Minnesota .
La ter on I worked for a del ivery man a t
Wimbledon , North Dakota where there \'las a g ood
Methodi s t ch urch.
The pa stor , whose name was Mille r
invited a Lay Eva ngeli s t t o come from Va l ley Ci t y
a nd h old a reviva l mee ting in our ch urch.
Four of
us we re sav ed but I wa s the onl y one ca l l ed to pre a ct
t h e gos pel .
I wa s a dv ised to e nroll in John Fletche
college for tra i n ing to he l p me ge t r eady t o be a
pas tor .
Thi s I did in 1916 and s erved a student
cha r ge nea r Ottumwa f or a shor t t i me .
Di strict
Superint e nde nt J a mes Br own aske d me t o serve the
Me th odist Ch ur ch a t Ke llogg, Iowa in 1920 . Thence
I was CRll ed to mi gr a te to Si lver Creek , Nebraska
t o serve t h e Fa irview- Va lley ch arge in the Pla t te
Va lley .
At t his time a most unus ua l experi ence
ca me to me .
A good l ayma n a t Val ley ca ll ed me by
te l e phone to s ay th a t a c oupl e would ca ll on me to
be ma rried th a t morning.
He did not s ay tha t both
of them we re deaf a nd dumb a nd did not advise me a s
to how handle such a marri age.
Fortuna tely they
brought a long a fine l a dy friend who was very good
at writting.
She wrote me a note saying, "Show
them t he questions and have them agree with a yes
nod of the head," After more than the usua l amount
of time I had them married and they left me h appy.
Meanshile I served t't'lo churches at Ewing, a nd Macon
in Nebraska.
At this time word came to us that mother-in-law
Je s sie Terry was real ill at Plymouth, Michigan. My
g ood wife wanted to go to her aid.
We loaded our
bel ong ings into a covered trailer and our Model T.
(Ford Car ) pulled a ll to Plymouth, Michigan. My wife
gave her motherg ood care and she soon recovered
enough so we could accept a charge at De cker, Mi chigan, whose three churches we served with our model
T for a few years.
We were then call ed to Port
Huron Circuit and gave it model T service for two
y ears . It was at this time that my vocal chords
f ai led me badly and retirement was mandatory. I
went back to painting again and also worked in a
mach i ne shop and
t hus earned Social Security
ri ghts. My good wife, Lorena, was attacked by vicious
cancers that ate off her wind pipe a nd gullet so she
could not eat, and the cancers took her life.
Mea nwhile, in 1967, I a m living on two
pensions a nd wa iting to "go across on th e other
side " •
BIOGRAPHICAL BLANK FOR THE DETROIT CONFERENCE HisrORICAL SOID!ETY
When f i lled in pl ease r et urn to J . A. Halffihuber , 13100
~~oo~a~ d ,
Hi gn Jand Par k,
P/1:' ·'! il) gan.
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'}eor se Irwin Friday
N&ID. e in full:
Birth:
Date
June 18 18 90
Place
Height 5ft,l 0 i JXaight
130
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Per sonal AEEearance
J orwith , I owa.
Color of Ha ir da rk brown
Eyes --------~----
Fami l y Background:
1. Father's Nane in Full
~.J eter
1863 .
D e~ .
Da t e of Bi r t h
2. Mother' s Maiden Name
J ohn Fri day
27 Place
..ag nes
Sw i t zer l _a _n_d_-'Nat ional i t y __<>_w_i_s_s_ _
U~ l l s
Date of Birt h: 1 2/5 / ' 74 Pl a ce
Renw i c .: , I owa
'~~ace
Nationai. i ty ;J;ng . &1:/e l sh
3.
Marr iage of Pc..r ents: Date ,June
Humboldt , Iowa
4.
Pl aces of r esi dence
Renw ic k , Iowa :
.J hadw i c k , :1issour i; Borup
lli nnes ota , Th en Renw1ck , I owa a 3a1n .
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5 . Names of Brot h er s w d Sister s
Edna , Alta , Ar thur . Cl arence , Th eodore ,
Char l es , Ada , EfSie-and· _,_i_n_n_i_f_r_e_d_.~------------~-----------------
6 . Not e dist i nguished
se r vi~es
Th eodor e i s a
for whi ch a ny brother s or s ister s ar e known:
to Yuma Ind i ans i n Jal ifor n i a .
1 1 ~ ss i onary
? . All available inf or mati on concerning paren t s , r ace , nationality , educat i on ,
occupations , connections , s er vices , deat h , etc .
My pa ren ts we re n ot r i c h but h a d many f ri ends . They we r e enga sed
i n wel l dril l ing and l a t er , farmed . ~du c at i ona l adva n t a g es were f ew.
PERSONAL HISTORY
1. Education :
School s , degr ees , et c.
:l:Lsh t h ;srad e in c ou n try schoo l ,
a y ear a t Morr eh ead Normal , ifoor eh ead , 'ann, Bl til e c ourse , 3 yrs .
2 . No t e worthy exper iences or c hildho od and yo uth
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3 . Marriage :
Date _ __..;;.;..·. a;;;.;r;;.. .;.. . __
1_7..:.,_ 1.. 9. ;_3.. :5_ _..,...:.Pl ac e
P 1 ym out h , M i c h
By Whom· ---------------------------4. Wif e ' s h'l ai den Neme Lorena Mae Terry
Schools P1ym . Hiigh & v.c. N.. ·T . ~ .
From a firs t marr i a t e--·5 . Names of childr en, wi t h date and pl ace of bi r th '> Kathr yn bor n Uni v. Par k . Ia.
Born 11 / 19/ '18.
Sidney , born 12/12/21 -6. Car eer s of childr en , wi t h posit i ons , offices he l d, et c.
Kathryn is a r eg ist er ed ~ os met o log i s t
--------------------<> idney is a :rr.ar i ne . Kodiak . Ai aska a t th 1s dat e .
? • Your religibus. ·exJ)eriene·e e nd Church cor.necti ons: _ _ _ili>~rted
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re Jtivra~ mt;etiQa
at :~, !~o~- ~. Dak.ota ia.l9J.6._._Re.lt.-<lB..ll._t.o- __ __:: ·
s erve ·J hr1s s on after
a • w1ill_~_£~a ying. H_~Y_L~e } onged ....Q.n_ly_'ti.o_
:r.!ethodi s t church.
Parents we~ot church ~p_p l e,
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a.
I was called while praying
the road wh ile on a trip, near ·vi mbledon. N. Dakota,
Your call to the Christi a n ministry
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----------------------------------~-------------------------------------94 When and where admitted on Tr ial end Or d'..nations: Admitted on
se5s~gn o~ ~¥a Neb~as ka Conf. held at Omaha, B1shop
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= er at Session in Omaha, Sapt. 1926.
!fie
trial at
Keeney , 1 924
10 . Mi litar y r ecor d _ _ _N
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Public o ffices
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Boating , bathi ng , fi shing and as
Gardening and g os p el 81g n pa1nting.
1 2. Favorite rec r eations, hobbies, etc ,
bobbie~ .
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13 . Offices held in Church and Community _ _.;:,P:....;a:;;.s;;;.. ;;t.::.o.::.r________________
None, but I have outline for a
book I hope to Pub l ish about the United StateS:from tfie
standpoi nt of relig ious advances.
15 , Member of 1'ihat Clubs and Fraternal Societ;i.es
None, I have thot all my
time belonged to societies connected wi t h the church.
14 . Author of what books and Publications
16, Appointments served with dates Served at Bethel,Fairview,Nemaha, Swede
P lains, Cedar Hill, Lewist~ Ewing and Ma c on from 1924 to tay,l942.
Those were in NebraskaConr .
Came to becker, Detroit Corif' .
following session of 1942 by transfer from Bishop Mart1n.
REV. GEORGE lltVINE FRIDAY, who
l? was bom June 18,1890, died in Sara- lc life:
sota, Fla., April 19. His funeral service
was conducted in Plymouth on April 23
by the pastor of the Plymouth First
United Methodist Church, Rev. Paul M.
Cargo. Following student appointments
in the Iowa Conference, Mr. Friday united
with the Nebraska Conference in 1924 and
served churches in that conference until
181942 when he transferred to the Detroitlriences ' epi sodes
I was raised a farmer boy
Conference where h~ s~rved Decker ~d l in western Canada when I was 21.
Came back
the Port Huron Clrcwt. Aft~r re~m- LVe resided her·e since
I learned carpenter
ment, in 1949, Rev. and Mrs. Fnday lived
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in Lakeport and Plymouth. Mrs. Friday Ran a way from home wb1le a small Chlld
died in 1964. In recent years ~r. Fr~day l by shotg um a c e ident and in two tornadoes.
19,has lived in Sarasota, Fla. He 1s s~rv!Ved p c. pe r one or two or three dramat ia incidents
by three children, Mrs. LeRoy Smith and
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Sidney Friday of Sarasota, Mrs. Jesse1try V:hlch might b e published ln a book und e r Such
Hill of Nof~-~~~~ and six grandchildren. Iethodist Ministers"?
20. If the subject of this sketch is deceased, pleese g ive
P~ace
.of . Buriel.
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