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St. Mary's Episcopal Congregation Meet For The Final Time

After more than 50 years in Imperial Beach, St. Mary's Santa Maria Virgen Episcopal Church held its final service Sunday.

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Vera Mizell, 87, helped establish the church.

"It was because there was no Episcopal church in this city," Mizell said. "I didn't have a car and without a car, I couldn't make it to either Coronado Christ Church or to St. John's in Chula Vista unless you went all the way to San Diego to take the bus back so I felt this community really needed an Episcopal church."

Sunday school would meet in her garage until the church was commissioned in Sept. 1959.

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At Sunday's service, the church and its altar were officially decommissioned by Bishop James Mathes.

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