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Tuesday, April 18, 2017WASHINGTON — A mediator has been asked to help settle a dispute over a piece of Bethesda land that may be home to a cemetery.Members of the Macedonia Baptist Church of River Road said an African American cemetery that once belonged to the church exists under a parking lot on Westbard Avenue.The developer Equity One wants to place a parking garage at the site and has agreed to have an archaeological study done to look for graves. But church members remain skeptical because the examiners would be hired by the developer.County planners also have made an offer to hire a peer-review panel selected by the church, but a deal has not been reached.A joint letter to Montgomery County Planning Board Chairman Casey Anderson, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett and County Council President Roger Berliner said, with an agreement by all those involved, that the county would hire a mediator to help in the process.“Because the community remains understandably concerned about the process thus far, we agree that it would be wise for us to pause for a moment, bring all the part...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017Fellowship Hall.Burial will be private at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the U-46 Foundation's Elementary School Library Fund or the Bethesda Lutheran Communities, which provides services and homes to people with developmental disabilities.#article_video {width:100%;margin:25px 0;max-width:576px;overflow:hidden;}
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Saturday, April 08, 2017Property Committee and as the Superintendent of Sunday School. In addition, he had also for some time been a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Meadville and had served on the Board of Directors at Bethesda Children’s Home, where he had volunteered over 2000 hours with the construction of the Home’s Chapel. Bruce was a 54 year member of the Hempfield Township Municipal Authority, served on the Board of Directors of the Greenville Public Library, had been a Boy Scout Leader with Troop #54 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and he very much enjoyed woodworking. On September 29, 1945 he married the former, Margaret E. Floyd, she passed away on July 13, 1995, he then married the former, Frances L. Callahan on September 20, 1996, she survives. Also surviving are two daughters, Ann Mathieson and her husband, Scott of Aurora, New York and Janet Michaelsen and her husband, Christian of Annandale, Virginia; two sons, Paul B. Wackenhut and his wife, Martha, of Blackfoot, Idaho and Norman C. Wackenhut and his wife, Socorro of South Lake Tahoe, California; nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; first wife and a brother, Norman H. Wackenhut.Calling hours will be held on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Loutzenhiser-Jordan Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 366-368 S. Main St., Greenville, Pennsylvania. There will also be calling hours prior to services on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 from 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. in Roth Library in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Funeral services will be Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1 Trinity Place, Greenville, Pennsylvania with Rev. Lee Penvose, Pastor, officiatingMemorial contributions may be made to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1 Trinity Place, Greenville, Pennsylvania 16125 or to the Greenville Public Library, 330 Main St., Greenville, Pennsylvania 16125.To view obituary visit www.loutzenhiserfuneralhomes.c...
Monday, March 06, 2017Macedonia Baptist Church on River Road was founded in the 1920s. Via Google EarthHarvey M. Matthews Sr. has a 60-year-old memory of playing hide-and-seek with his friends in a Bethesda church cemetery, among the chiseled river stones that marked the graves of African-American parishioners.When he passes the site these days on the way to Macedonia Baptist Church on River Road, he sees an expanse of asphalt. When he looks at development maps for the area, he sees a parking garage slated for the same spot.“No one can show me a map as of yet of where that cemetery was located,” Matthews, 72, said.The county’s sweeping plan to redevelop the Westbard area has reopened the wounds created when the graveyard was originally disrupted by builders more than 50 years ago, said church member Marsha Coleman-Adebayo. And at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, the nearly century-old Baptist church is coordinating a march to protest what members have called an attack on the history of what was once a thriving black community.“For these people to have been treated with so little respect in life and then discarded in death, I think makes us all feel that something terribly wrong has happened,” said Coleman-Adebayo, whose husband pastors Macedonia Baptist.The congregation of roughly 70 has spent months pushing count...
Monday, March 06, 2017Montgomery County police officers stopped traffic on River Road in Bethesda on Sunday afternoon so dozens of protesters who gathered at Macedonia Baptist Church could march across the road to a property the demonstrators say is the site of a historic African-American burial ground.The protesters carried signs that read, “Black Lives Matter,” “Black History Matters,” “Respect the Dead,” “Rescue the Cemetery on Willet Branch Creek,” “Respect MD Black History,” and they chanted, “hey, hey, ho, ho, Equity One has got to go.”Macedonia Baptist Church members are asking the Montgomery County Planning Board to reschedule a Feb. 23 meeting on the Equity One sketch plan because they believe the property is a former African cemetery. They have written letters to county officials asking for a delay, and now they are circulating a petition. They plan to take their protest to the offices of the Planning Board in Silver Spring on Feb. 16, and they say they will rally again next Sunday at their Bethesda church.[embedded content]“We are sending out a call for help bec...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017WASHINGTON — A mediator has been asked to help settle a dispute over a piece of Bethesda land that may be home to a cemetery.Members of the Macedonia Baptist Church of River Road said an African American cemetery that once belonged to the church exists under a parking lot on Westbard Avenue.The developer Equity One wants to place a parking garage at the site and has agreed to have an archaeological study done to look for graves. But church members remain skeptical because the examiners would be hired by the developer.County planners also have made an offer to hire a peer-review panel selected by the church, but a deal has not been reached.A joint letter to Montgomery County Planning Board Chairman Casey Anderson, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett and County Council President Roger Berliner said, with an agreement by all those involved, that the county would hire a mediator to help in the process.“Because the community remains understandably concerned about the process thus far, we agree that it would be wise for us to pause for a moment, bring all the part...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017Fellowship Hall.Burial will be private at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the U-46 Foundation's Elementary School Library Fund or the Bethesda Lutheran Communities, which provides services and homes to people with developmental disabilities.#article_video {width:100%;margin:25px 0;max-width:576px;overflow:hidden;}
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Saturday, April 08, 2017Property Committee and as the Superintendent of Sunday School. In addition, he had also for some time been a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Meadville and had served on the Board of Directors at Bethesda Children’s Home, where he had volunteered over 2000 hours with the construction of the Home’s Chapel. Bruce was a 54 year member of the Hempfield Township Municipal Authority, served on the Board of Directors of the Greenville Public Library, had been a Boy Scout Leader with Troop #54 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and he very much enjoyed woodworking. On September 29, 1945 he married the former, Margaret E. Floyd, she passed away on July 13, 1995, he then married the former, Frances L. Callahan on September 20, 1996, she survives. Also surviving are two daughters, Ann Mathieson and her husband, Scott of Aurora, New York and Janet Michaelsen and her husband, Christian of Annandale, Virginia; two sons, Paul B. Wackenhut and his wife, Martha, of Blackfoot, Idaho and Norman C. Wackenhut and his wife, Socorro of South Lake Tahoe, California; nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; first wife and a brother, Norman H. Wackenhut.Calling hours will be held on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Loutzenhiser-Jordan Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 366-368 S. Main St., Greenville, Pennsylvania. There will also be calling hours prior to services on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 from 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. in Roth Library in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Funeral services will be Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1 Trinity Place, Greenville, Pennsylvania with Rev. Lee Penvose, Pastor, officiatingMemorial contributions may be made to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1 Trinity Place, Greenville, Pennsylvania 16125 or to the Greenville Public Library, 330 Main St., Greenville, Pennsylvania 16125.To view obituary visit www.loutzenhiserfuneralhomes.c...
Monday, March 06, 2017Macedonia Baptist Church on River Road was founded in the 1920s. Via Google EarthHarvey M. Matthews Sr. has a 60-year-old memory of playing hide-and-seek with his friends in a Bethesda church cemetery, among the chiseled river stones that marked the graves of African-American parishioners.When he passes the site these days on the way to Macedonia Baptist Church on River Road, he sees an expanse of asphalt. When he looks at development maps for the area, he sees a parking garage slated for the same spot.“No one can show me a map as of yet of where that cemetery was located,” Matthews, 72, said.The county’s sweeping plan to redevelop the Westbard area has reopened the wounds created when the graveyard was originally disrupted by builders more than 50 years ago, said church member Marsha Coleman-Adebayo. And at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, the nearly century-old Baptist church is coordinating a march to protest what members have called an attack on the history of what was once a thriving black community.“For these people to have been treated with so little respect in life and then discarded in death, I think makes us all feel that something terribly wrong has happened,” said Coleman-Adebayo, whose husband pastors Macedonia Baptist.The congregation of roughly 70 has spent months pushing count...
Monday, March 06, 2017Montgomery County police officers stopped traffic on River Road in Bethesda on Sunday afternoon so dozens of protesters who gathered at Macedonia Baptist Church could march across the road to a property the demonstrators say is the site of a historic African-American burial ground.The protesters carried signs that read, “Black Lives Matter,” “Black History Matters,” “Respect the Dead,” “Rescue the Cemetery on Willet Branch Creek,” “Respect MD Black History,” and they chanted, “hey, hey, ho, ho, Equity One has got to go.”Macedonia Baptist Church members are asking the Montgomery County Planning Board to reschedule a Feb. 23 meeting on the Equity One sketch plan because they believe the property is a former African cemetery. They have written letters to county officials asking for a delay, and now they are circulating a petition. They plan to take their protest to the offices of the Planning Board in Silver Spring on Feb. 16, and they say they will rally again next Sunday at their Bethesda church.[embedded content]“We are sending out a call for help bec...
