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Roderick C. Meredith - A Biographical Sketch

By Redfox

1974: Returned to US. Restored as Deputy Chancellor of AC
Pasadena (Worldwide News, January 2, 1978, 'Evangelists
Honored on 25th Anniversary', p. 3).
1975: June: Raymond McNair files for divorce from Leona
(AR29 October 1984).
August 9: Criticizes the fact of African-Americans holding
public offices, namely the mayoralties of Los Angeles and
Washington, DC and the police chief of Washington, DC, because
they are not 'Israelites' and thus are actually foreigners in the land
(AR2 1977, 'Separation of Church and State?').
1976: June 16: Wife Margie Helen Meredith (nee McNair)
dies aged 40 (Worldwide News, June 21, 1976, pp. 1 &8). When
Raymond McNair's book Ascent to Greatness is published, it is
dedicated to her (PDF p. 11).
1977: November 20: Marries Sheryl Ann Hensley of
Bakersfield, California (Worldwide News, January 2, 1978,
'Evangelists Honored on 25th Anniversary', pp. 1, 3). They would
later have two children.
HWA had fallen in love with Ramona Martin but as she was a
divorcee whose former husband was still alive Meredith ruled that
they could not be married. HWA would disregard this and marry
her (AR20 June 1982).
1978: Meredith and Hoeh are honored on their 25th
anniversary of their ordination. At this time Meredith is pastor
of Glendale, California church (Worldwide News, January 2,
1978, ' Evangelists Honored on 25th Anniversary', pp. 1, 3).

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