Ipswich UCC plans stained glass restoration

The Ipswich UCC Church has started a stained glass window restoration fund-raiser.

The stained glass windows in the church were installed during the ministry of the Reverend Godfrey Matthews in 1917. The following year Rev. Matthews was called as a Y.M.C.A. Secretary to Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

In 1950 it was discovered that the windows needed re-leading and Merrill and Edna Bebermeyer went to Minneapolis and located the firm from which the windows were ordered and they sent two men out to do the work.

The beautiful window in the east was given by Mr. and Mrs. George Meadows in memory of their s...