Ecorse Presbyterian Church History
Hi Everyone,
One of the poems I learned in Presbyterian Sunday School – probably from Bessie Goodell because I’m that old – was, “Here’s the church, Here’s the steeple, open the door and see all the people.” You made a church steeple with your hands while you said the first two lines, and then opened your hands wide while you said the last two.
The person that mattered most to me at Ecorse Presbyterian Church was my Grandma Robson. She belonged to the Women’s Bible Class, the circles, and she helped the other church ladies fill the old church basement and later the Leonard Duckett Center with delicious smells at the banquets, dinners, and Harvest Home Suppers.
The last Harvest Home Supper took place in the Duckett Center in October 2006. It’s hard to believe that five years have gone by since then and the church, the Duckett center and the manse are gone.
The Ecorse Presbyterian Church stood on the corner of West Jefferson and Outer Drive for over a half century. It was an Ecorse landmark and a guiding light for many Ecorse people.
The Ecorse Presbyterian Church is gone, but I won’t ever forget it. That’s why I decided to put its history into a PDF book and put it online, so when all of us who remember it fondly are gone, there will be a record of it for the future.
Kathy Covert Warnes
One of the poems I learned in Presbyterian Sunday School – probably from Bessie Goodell because I’m that old – was, “Here’s the church, Here’s the steeple, open the door and see all the people.” You made a church steeple with your hands while you said the first two lines, and then opened your hands wide while you said the last two.
The person that mattered most to me at Ecorse Presbyterian Church was my Grandma Robson. She belonged to the Women’s Bible Class, the circles, and she helped the other church ladies fill the old church basement and later the Leonard Duckett Center with delicious smells at the banquets, dinners, and Harvest Home Suppers.
The last Harvest Home Supper took place in the Duckett Center in October 2006. It’s hard to believe that five years have gone by since then and the church, the Duckett center and the manse are gone.
The Ecorse Presbyterian Church stood on the corner of West Jefferson and Outer Drive for over a half century. It was an Ecorse landmark and a guiding light for many Ecorse people.
The Ecorse Presbyterian Church is gone, but I won’t ever forget it. That’s why I decided to put its history into a PDF book and put it online, so when all of us who remember it fondly are gone, there will be a record of it for the future.
Kathy Covert Warnes
ecorsepresbyterianchurch.pdf |