Forty years ago Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was at Andover Newton Theological School, Phyllis was at Hillsdale College in Michigan. She was on tour with the college Choir that day and they were at a concert in downtown Detroit. They performed Mozart's "Requiem" in honor of and in memory of King... the solo "Pie Jesu" was a favorite of Phyllis.
Fifteen years ago she died of pancreatic cancer, and a young singer named Patty Howell came home from college to sing the Pie Jesu in her memory...and her dream, as with King, lives on in the family who loved her and shared in her dream...
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