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Sunday will be the Rev. Dr. Carl Douglass's last in the pulpit. Next week, you'll find him among the parishioners at Patmos United Methodist Church in Huddleston. He's retiring again. For good.
Douglass first retired in 1994, when he was 65, from Main Street United Methodist Church in Bedford. He and his wife, Brenda, moved to a little waterfront home in 40 Acres in Moneta and settled in to enjoy lives of leisure. It was short-lived, however. Not long after relocating to the lake, Douglass was asked to jointly minister part time at Huddleston UMC and at Mount Horeb, also in Huddleston.See the full content of this document
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This Time, He Means It
"I did that for six years and I retired from that," he recalled. "A few months later, they asked me to go to Patmos."
That was in 2000. Despite his history of not really retiring, the 82-year-old said this time, he's serious about it."I got to 'cause I'm forgetting everything. Some days," joked Douglass, "I forget my own name."A different kind of preacherDouglass's choice to ent...See the full content of this document
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