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A 90-year-old former RAF driver has helped to save his local church after raising nearly $39,000 through the production and sale of sausage rolls and malt loaf.
Gerry Smith, of Market Weston in west Suffolk, took up baking at the age of 80, following the death of his wife, Pamela, who served as a warden at the local St. Mary’s Church.
St. Mary’s 12 windows were collapsing and being held up with wooden boards. In an effort to restore the church, the local community raised £100,000 ($129,900) to fix the windows. Smith accounted for nearly a third of this total through his baking, although other donors included the Alfred Williams Charitable Trust and the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust.
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Gerry Smith, of Market Weston in west Suffolk, took up baking at the age of 80, following the death of his wife, Pamela, who served as a warden at the local St. Mary’s Church.
St. Mary’s 12 windows were collapsing and being held up with wooden boards. In an effort to restore the church, the local community raised £100,000 ($129,900) to fix the windows. Smith accounted for nearly a third of this total through his baking, although other donors included the Alfred Williams Charitable Trust and the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust.
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90-year-old's secret recipes raise nearly $39,000 for church repairs
A 90-year-old former RAF driver has helped to save his local church after raising nearly 39,000 through the production and sale of sausage rolls and malt loaf
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