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Article: Bakkers in '62: `Simple, friendly, no jewels'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 12, 1987
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FALLING WATERS, W.Va. Imagine Tammy Faye Bakker with no makeup
and no jewelry. She's wearing a conservative churchgoing suit with a
white churchgoing hat and white gloves, and she's playing an
accordion.
Dora Johnson was there to see it.
It was 25 years ago, in the fall of 1962, that the Bakkers, poor
and simple and newly wed, came to Falling Waters in the lush, rolling
hills of West Virginia's eastern Panhandle with their "mobile
ministry."
They were invited by the Rev. Wilbur Bell, pastor of the
Assembly of God Church at Falling Waters, to preach to and entertain
local parishioners.
"We were there pretty much every night," recalled Dora Johnson,
who lives half a mile from the ...