to the salvation army. the pastor s assistant was now free to be with the man that she loved. her boss, the reverend, a.b. sherman. he had been a widower since losing his wife on a car wreck that summer. cindy s daughter samantha says her mom and a.b. picked it up just days after the dead suicide. my mom went away the next weekend to go see him. it was very difficult to be hurting and have just lost your father. and have your mom go off visiting her lover. i guess. healing the wounds pretty quickly? yeah. very. joe s sister rose, the one-time counselor. tried not to judge her sister in law. she was obviously head over heels for the pastor. but still, she thought the pastor had a lot of explaining to do. basic things like, why hadn t you called the police? when joe threatened to kill himself. and possibly even his family. anytime he s threatened somebody s life.
shouldn t. minister into more than a sole. he would basically council his way right into their bedrooms. just who was the reverend arthur burton sherman? reverend sherman, a.b. to his friends. was a small town methodist priest or in small town, pennsylvania. he was confident. he was an all-round guy. daryl cox sat alongside him for 20 years. he d seen a fresh faced young pastor grow into a devoted preacher. one of the things he helped my family over the years, he was always there. he watched his friend, the pastor, raise his music loving family. him and his wife would perform together. they sang together many times, they were quite the dual and duets were considered in the church to seem like the all american couple. the couple s daughters, julie and amy. mom and dad were people who loved each other and took care of each other and very close family.