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PO Box 7
273 Lakeview Avenue
Valhalla, NY 10595 |
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| SALVATION ARMY |
| Turn right at the next corner to Commerce Street and right again on Commerce Street and cross Lakeview Avenue. Immediately on your right are uniform rows of grey granite headstones commemorating the warriors of the Salvation Army. Across the way is a large flat granite memorial marking the resting place of Evangeline Booth, the daughter of the founder of the Salvation Army and a prominent leader of the organization. Booth assumed a post with the Army in her native London at the age of seventeen. Known as the "White Angel of the Slums," Booth worked tirelessly to improve the human condition. She arrived in New York in 1904 after heading the Salvation Army in Canada. Under her personal supervision the Salvation Army grew into one of the largest service organizations in the world. In 1934, Booth was appointed to the highest post of the Army -- general of the International Salvation Army. Dedicated solely to the cause of the Salvation Army, Evangeline Booth never married. Once when told by a male friend that she should give marriage some serious thought, Booth responded, "I have considered it. That's why I'm single". |
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