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Pandemic fear: Church to apologize for funeral refusal

by Associated Press
| August 19, 2020 11:03 AM

Noel Alexander had helped build Pine Hill Baptist Church in west-central Louisiana. He’d been its music minister, served on numerous committees and he and his wife kept the church’s books. After he died from COVID-19 at age 79, his visitation and funeral were scheduled for the church he loved.

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