Who's Who at Palos Hills Christian Assembly

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  • Palos Hills Christian Assembly, Palos Hills, Cook, Chicagoland, IL (OB) +1879-2025+
    • Southside Gospel Hall +1879-1894; Alberta Hall 1894-1918; 69th & Halstead St. 1918-1923; 66th Place & Normal Blvd. Gospel Hall 1922-1929; Roberts Memorial Gospel Hall and/or 86th Street Assembly 1929-1969

Early Elders

  • Thomas Carrick

Notable Families

Bernard family

  • George Bernard +1965 (1885-1965)

Boyd family

  • Hugh Boyd 1909-1955 (1888-1955)
  • Margaret Matilda Aicken Boyd 1914-1970? (1890-1970)

Bradshaw family

Carrick family

  • Thomas Carrick

Christensen family

  • Mrs. Anna Christensen 1896-1933 (1868-1933)
  • Chris Christensen

Cotton family

  • Andrew J. Cotton 1912-1956+
  • Jane Glass Cotton 1912-1974 (?-1974)

Dobson family

  • Herbert Gladstone Dobson 1942-1981 (1905-1981)
  • Irene Mae Boyd Dobson 1915-1969 (1915-1969)

Dunnett family

  • Ned Dunnett 1907-1973 (1890-1973)

Eadie family

  • Mabel Walker Eadie

Giles family

  • James Giles 1912-1945 (1879-1950); erected Roberts Memorial Gospel Hall in 1929 as a contractor;

Gould family

  • William Gould 1917-1973 (1887-1971)

Glass family

  • Richard K. Glass 1930-1941; 1945-1946 (1903-1946)

Godby family

  • Betty Pollard Godby

Hoekstra family

  • Miss Shirley Hoekstra +1966

Hueston family

  • Mrs. Marie Hueston - Hammond, IN

Johnson family

  • George J. Johnson +1940+ (d. 1949)

Kennedy family

  • James W. Kennedy +1965 (d. 1965)

Marshall family

  • David Forsyth Marshall 1925-1943+ (1925-2014)
  • Edward Forsyth Marshall 1916-1934+ (1916-1979)
  • Janet Forsyth Marshall-Christie 1911-1981? (1887-1981)
  • Robert Ross Marshall 1911-1925 (1890-1925)
  • Robert Forsyth Marshall 1918-1930 (1918-1930)

Nielson family

  • Mrs. Marie Nielson 1897-1920 (1864-1953)

Pollard family

Strance family

  • Jean Ross Marshall Strance 1914-1990's (1914-2006)
  • Joseph Charles Strance 1940-1958+ (1940-2016)
  • Kasmir Charles Strance 1935-1982 (1910-1982)
  • Janet Strance Murray 1940's - Dubuque, IA
  • Robert J/L Strance 1938-1956+ - La Grange, IL

Thomson family

  • Donald Thomson - father was SS supt when he was a boy; saved at 21, moved to what is now Beverly Bible Chapel

Walker family

  • George Walker
  • Margaret Walker
  • Mrs. Nina Walker 1923-1966 (1890-1966)
  • William Walker

Weitemeyer family

George & Margaret met at Emmaus University, he was there 1961-1964, and she 1962-1963. Margaret was saved in 1956 under the ministry of Billy Graham at his Cow Palace crusade, and started attending Fairhaven Bible Chapel in California.

  • George Thomas Weitemeyer 1961-1964
  • Margaret Ann Aston Weitemeyer 1962-1963 (b. 1940 Oakland, Alameda, CA; m. 1964 Alameda Co., CA; d. 2022), daughter of John Wesley Aston (b. 1907 East St. Louis, IL - d. 1974 San Leandro, Alameda, CA) & Melba Dorothy Lewis Aston (b. 1912 Delaware Twp., Wyandotte, Kansas City metro, KS - d. 1968 Alameda, CA). Melba's father was a retired carpenter, her parents, Charles Edward Lewis (b. 1866 Atchison, KS - d. 1925) & Rosa A. Black Lewis (b. 1871 Hannibal, MO), met and were married in 1887 in Wichita, KS. Charles was a painter in railroad shops in Kansas City in 1880. In 1950, John Aston was employed in Oakland in a sheet metal shop. John's father, John Thomas Aston (b. 1878 Indianapolis, IN - d. 1945 Livermore, Alameda, CA), was employed in the same industry in 1910 in East Saint Louis, Illinois, and previously as a butcher. John Sr.'s father was William Aston (b. 1842 Newland, Gloucestershire, England).