Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Cecil Cox, bellman extraordinaire

Cecil remembered

Once again, today at the First Congregational UCC Church, 100 E Broadway, Waukesha, Cecil will be memorialized when the church unleashes its annual pancake supper named after him. Cecil was a hard-to-extinguish worker for his church, climbing the steeple regularly, years after years, to oil the huge bell held aloft by ancient timbers; tending to tasks large and small, from the highly responsible to the seemingly menial.
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It was Cecil and people like him this editor had in mind when penning the following ode, reprinted from LANDMARK, the quarterly publication of the Waukesha Historical Society:


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