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For reasons we will probably never know or understand, my grandmother, Amy Amanda McDillon, left Chicago sometime in the early 1910's and went to Towanda, Pennsylvania. There, the Rev. Peter I. Frey and his wife, the Rev. Mae Eleanor Frey, became foster parents to her. Throughout the years, The Freys remained close to my grandparents and subsequently became foster grandparents to their three children, Frances, Harold, and Amy. My father, Harold, remembers his foster Grandfather Frey singing "Come and Dine" to him. The Freys had two children, a son - Stuart Wells Frey, and a daughter - Catherine E. Frey (Wright). Rev. Peter Frey's pastorates have been unable to be determined other than the following:
After having provided churches for 35 years, he traveled with his wife for awhile. When the time came that he could no longer travel, he settled in Glendale, CA where their daughter Catherine was in school. After an extended illness, he passed away in 1928 in Glendale, CA. Mae Eleanor Edick was born August 5, 1865 in Deposit, NY. Her mother was a writer. At the age of 5, she made her first appearance on stage in one of her mother's plays. At the age of 17, she became the Social Reporter for "The News". It was while she was on assignment for this newspaper that she met her future husband, Peter I. Frey. Approximately three years later, she left this position to become active in church work. She spent two years in a bible training school and took a three year course at the Baptist Theological Seminary. She also took a nursing course and worked for the Red Cross as Chaplain Nurse. During the late war years, she took a pastorate just outside of New York City. One of her pastorates included the Echo Lake Baptist Church, Paterson, NJ, from 1918-1919. She worked under the Northern Baptist Convention as their State Evangelist. She met with A.B. Simpson at a Chicago convention. Eventually, she became a national/international evangelist under the Assemblies of God, Springfield, MO. Her travels took her from coast to coast, to Canada and overseas to London as well as other places. She also accepted an invitation to preach at the Mormon Tabernacle. In May 1925, Rev. Mae Eleanor Frey held a week long revival meeting in Arkansas City, Kansas at the then newly constructed rotunda in Wilson Park. Many of her personal papers and articles are in the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center in Springfield, MO. Rev. Mae Eleanor Frey died December 4, 1954 at Huntington Long Island, NY and is buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, NJ.
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Replay "Come and Dine" and view the words to "Come and Dine"
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