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Jimmy Owens
b. 1930 Person Name: J. O. Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "By a New and Living Way" in Living Way Hymnal Owens, James Lloyd (Jimmy). (Clarksdale, Mississippi, December 9, 1930-- ). Foursquare. Attended Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.; Southwestern College, Memphis, Tennessee; Cathedral School of the Bible, Oakland, California; Cabot College, San Leandro, Calif. Minister of Music, The Neighborhood Church, Oakland, Calif., 1951-1966; Minister of Music, United Community Church, Glendale, Calif., 1966-1968; Minister of Music, Anaheim Christian Center (now Melodyland Christian Center), Anaheim, Calif., 1968-1969.
With his wife Carol, Owens has composed four Christian musicals. He has recorded several albums.
--Terry W. York, DNAH Archives
Jimmy Owens
Carol Owens
b. 1931 Person Name: C. O. Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "By a New and Living Way" in Living Way Hymnal Owens, Carol Sue. (El Reno, Oklahoma, October 30, 1931-- ). Foursquare. Attended San Jose State College, San Jose, California; Cathedral School of the Bible, Oakland, Calif. With her husband James (Jimmy), she composed Christian musicals.
--Terry W. York, DNAH Archives
Carol Owens
Aimee Semple McPherson
1890 - 1944 Person Name: A. S. M. Hymnal Number: 522 Author of "Fling Wide the Pearly Gates" in Living Way Hymnal McPherson, Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple. (Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 1890--September 26, 1944, Oakland, California). Foursquare. With no formal education beyond high school this remarkable and controversial woman founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel denomination. Pentacostalist missionary to China, 1917; itinerant Pentacostalist preacher in U.S. 1918-1923; pastor of Angelus Temple (Foursquare), Los Angeles, Calif. 1923-1944. Author of books on the Foursquare Church and composer of five oratorios. Evangelistic zeal is evident in her many published hymns. Full length biographical studies:
Thomas, Lately. (1970). Storming heaven : the lives and turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: William Morrow & Co.
McPherson, Aimee Semple. (1973). The Story of My Life. Waco, Tex.: Word Books.
--Terry W. York, DNAH Archives
Letter to the editor from daughter Roberta Semple Salter describes the drive from New York to Los Angeles in 1918. (Smithsonian, November 1980). DNAH Archives
Aimee Semple McPherson
