Anecdotes from a Retired Pastor, Part 1
Gordon J. Keddie | July/August 2019 Issue
When we were small boys, my brother John one day asked our Mother, Norah Scott Keddie (1919-86) what she did in the War. Our Father, David G.A. Keddie ...
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