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him into retirement for, according to conference records, he

received a disability pension at age 68. In fact, ill health kept

him from attending the 50th anniversary of his ordination held by the Maritime Conference.

Rev. MacLean retired to Charlottetown

where he was a member of Spring Park

REFLECTION: United. He passed away on November 1, Ken MacLean 1971. The funeral service, under the direc- tion of the Prince Edward Island Presbytery For the occasion of his wedding, was held in Summerside. Rev Vans was Rev. MacLean, borrowed Mac buried in his home community of Lot 16. MacLean’s 1918 Model T The Maritime Conference minutes of Ford Car which had an open 1972 described Rev. Brenton Vans MacLean top. In the process of taking his favourably: “A dedicated servant of his bride from the church, he Master, Mr. MacLean will be remembered flipped the car in the ditch, and by all who knew him as a man with a warm there they were hung upside personality who made friends easily and

down, but unhurt.

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who maintained his friendships.”11

Rev. Louis Pellissier As written b1 Rev. Pellim'er

My involvement with Lot 16 United Church, and my later decision to become a minister, brings back many good mem— ories of my brief but intensive time with Lot 16, its people, and its congregation.

I came to Prince Edward Island in a job position with Indian Affairs. I “ended up” in an old green farmhouse in Grand River owned by Erskine Forbes in the late fall of 1971. After a riot on Lennox Island Reserve, my wife, daugh- ter, and I needed a place to live, within commuting distance of a temporary Band office in Summerside. The “green house” — with its Kemac range, oil heater, and affordable rent — was ideal, and Erskine and Vera were wonderful land- lords and friends. We even attended church with them (my first “attendance” anywhere in many, many years!) and met some folks in the congregation.

By the fall of 1972, we were gone again — to Chatham,

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