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Post by dfnmeows44 on Aug 23, 2009 13:54:39 GMT -5
I had been told about this last fall, but I was not able to verify it until
today----
Saint Josephs Church in Dallas was initially built in 1910, close to the downtown Dallas area. At one time it also had a parochial elementary school and later had a special school for retarded children attached to
its property. By the mid-1960s most of the people in the neighborhood had
moved to other parts of Dallas and the suburbs, and for a long while the
Church property was vacant. In the late 1970s a Korean group purchased the Church building and it was renamed St Andrew Kim Church. Many of the
Koreans had to come from long distances and by 2005 they had decided to purchase some land to build a new Church in Irving(where the Cowboys had played from 1971 until last year.)With the Church again vacant several groups looked into its possible purchase. Howver since money was needed
right then and there, the only person or group offering to pay right away
was Ronnie Claire Edwards(Corabeth Godsey). The story of the purchase
has now appeared in the Sunday Guide section of The Dallas Morning News
today, August 23.2009.I have tried to locate it on line at
www,DallasNews.com but have not been able to locate the
actual web site. Hopefully some of you will be able to find this
and see for yourself!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2009 18:38:45 GMT -5
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Post by del on Aug 23, 2009 19:31:02 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2009 20:25:19 GMT -5
Wow, she is still beautiful.
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Post by Tracey on Aug 23, 2009 21:21:11 GMT -5
Thanks for posting del. I'm so surprised that she wanted to live in a church with all those antique furnitures. Wow unbelieveable..
Thanks again..
Tracey
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Post by ncwaltonsfan on Aug 24, 2009 5:09:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the link,Del. Very informative article.
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Post by nate on Aug 24, 2009 21:53:22 GMT -5
Hmmm.... Doesn't that sound a little, eh ... nutty! Don't get me wrong. The pictures of the restoration and furnature are breathtaking, but that would give me the creeps at night! It definitately sounds like somthing Corabeth would do! It kind of makes you wonder where the Character of Corabeth stops and where Ronnie Clare starts  . Of course, when you read a little about how she grew on the-walton's webpage it does kind of fit. I'm sure she has remarkably good taste and artistic imagination, but it still seems a little um, well... weird! |
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Post by dfnmeows44 on Aug 25, 2009 13:57:13 GMT -5
Yes del this is the magazine article on which the Dallas News article was based.
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Post by Brennan on Aug 25, 2009 14:13:16 GMT -5
Nice article, but what she's done with the church is really unusual. It looks very dramatic and Victorian, but thereagain, Corabeth did always have a flair for the dramatic! Sometimes life does imitate art. It wouldn't be my choice of a place to live, but I say more power to her!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2009 14:22:49 GMT -5
Thank you Del for the link!! Interesting article and some beautiful pictures of her home. The furniture is too ornate for may taste but beautiful none the less.
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Post by jackiladypoet on Aug 25, 2009 17:29:25 GMT -5
Thanks for the link...
Well, I think it is a unique thing that she has done with the church...yes, maybe a tad off the wall, and, give her credit for making it HER OWN... Ronnie Claire and her Corabeth persona, are each one of a kind ladies... I've always dreamed of owning a one room schoolhouse to live in or use as a creative arts studio.
And for most of my life up until 2003, when I moved from home, I had grown up across 3 cemetaries and the one cemetary having relatives being there....
If Ronnie C laire can convert a church and the attached school into something she can call hers, kudos to her !!
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Post by Honeybee on Sept 11, 2009 12:38:13 GMT -5
Wow, Ronnie's house/chiurch is beautiful. I love old churches, as well. But the design, isn't my taste. Everyone, has their own taste of what desgin, they want in their home.
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. Of course, when you read a little about how she grew on the-walton's webpage it does kind of fit. I'm sure she has remarkably good taste and artistic imagination, but it still seems a little um, well... weird!
