“DEAD” VICAR ALIVE
The Dead March was played at All Saints’ Church, Penarth, in mourning for the Rev. Frank E. Williams, rector of Cogan, Penarth, when the rector was very much alive. The service on a Sunday evening had almost concluded when the vicar of All Saints’ announced the death of Mr. Williams, and the organist played the Dead March while the congregation stood.
When a member of the congregation called at Mr. Williams’s house afterwards, however, he found the rector in excellent spirits, although he had been unwell. “A regrettable error has been made,” the vicar said, in an interview.
“I received the message and gave it out in all good faith. I knew that the rector had been ill.” The Rev. A. W. Bamford Jones, the curate, who was assisting in the ser vice, said that he conveyed a message to the vicar, having received it from one of the churchwardens.
How the story originated is not known, but it is not thought to have been intended as a hoax.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 14
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