Good Luck to the New Parish

The Petters Family moved to Blue Anchor in 1918, at that time there was only Sacred Heart…so that is where they attended. In 1925, St. Lucy’s was built and George Petters help bring the bricks from Winslow Brick Co.

The family has been good members since to now. Paul Petters used to come up Saturday night to start the stove so it would be warm for 8:00AM Mass-ONLY ONE. I remeber the plain windows.

I started church here in 1942. Then the stained glass were begun donated by families. My husband, Henry was buried from St. Lucy Church and is buried at Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Our four boys all had their First Communion at St. Lucy and some received Confirmation at Assumption, Atco. Two of our boys were altar servers. 

I hope this did not bore you.

Good Luck to the New Parish!

SBP

Remembering the Past

Thanks for the email. I have thought about the 4 glorious years I spent in Winslow at St. Lucy/Sacred Heart. Some of the things I recall…

….when I arrived in September of 1988, the church at St. Lucy has just been ’saved’ by the shoring up of the floor timbers. A builder from Williamstown, John Lonia (?) did the work. Evidently the original joice in the flooring were very bad. I think that is when they put those columns in the basement and Joe Feliccia then built nice wooden frames around the round columns to make them look decorative. I believe at the same time they redid the kitchen and put in the restrooms int he basement of the church. I also remember that the bell that is now out front had been in a coupla on the roof and it was colapsing into the building, so the bell was taken down and the small coupla was removed. It stayed just a dumb looking roof line for a while until that fiberglass white tower was ordered and installed. Again Joe Feliccia did most of the work.

….sometime during that first year, we also had to have a new roof on the church at St. Lucy. Also over a period of time we had the stained glass windows in St. Lucy’s releaded and reinforced.

….recall my first couple of days there and I stopped into Sacred Heart church where you and Eleanor were practicing up in the choir loft. The sign on the door said that the church was closed and would be torn apart. The church was closed for several months while work inside was completed. The altar rail was taken out, the altar was put down stairs for the ‘bus stop’ lineup of statues. We used folding chairs for awhile until the pews were installed. They came from St. Joan of Arc in Marlton. Also new windows in Sacred heart to replace those horrible yellow glass windows that had to be propped open with a stick. One year later, in November 1989, we invited Bishop Mc Hugh to come and celebrate the feast of Christ the King, and I think we did a final dedication of all the restorations at that time. (Mc Hugh had just come to the Diocese succeeding GHG.)

….The Rel Ed combined socials and gatherings. ….the many halloween parties we attended at Assumption Hall.

….at some point, I put in about 8 replacement windows in the second floor rear of the rectory, including the large picture window in the back.

….in 1992 I had the rectory kitchen torn apart and a new one put in by Flex builders.

FD

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