Pascoe, Helier Martin (1917–2004), and Joyce Mahallia (Willis) (1917–2015)

Martin Pascoe and his wife, Joyce, were Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missionaries in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for more than 27 years.

Birth and Early Years

Helier Martin Pascoe, “Martin,” was born July 7, 1917, in Auckland, New Zealand,¹ the fourth of five sons.² His parents were William Henry Pascoe (1874–1954)³ and Olive May Pascoe (née Bree, 1878–1966).⁴ Martin’s brothers were Arthur Leslie (1905–2008),⁵ Henry Vincent (1908–2007),⁶ William Lewis (1912–2004)⁷ and Lindsay Oliver (1920–2011).⁸

Being an SDA pastor, Martin’s father worked in many different towns, and while Martin was still a young child the family moved to Australia.⁹ In 1919 they lived in Queensland (QLD);¹⁰ 1920 to mid-1921, in New South Wales (NSW);¹¹ followed by two years in South Australia (SA).¹²

Education and Internship

Their next move was to Tasmania,¹³ and here Martin attended the Hobart church school, completing grade 2 in 1924 and grade 4 the following year when the family moved to Melbourne, Victoria (VIC).¹⁴ After moving to Cooranbong at the end of 1926, he completed his elementary schooling in the Avondale church school in 1929. He was also baptized that year.¹⁵

From 1930 to 1932 he studied general subjects at the Australasian Missionary College (AMC) at Avondale. For two of those years his mother was ill, so he helped at home and also did some of the cooking for her. After she improved, he worked at the college and then the Sanitarium Health Food factory to help pay his fees.¹⁶

During 1933–1936 he undertook the ministerial course at Avondale, graduating November 30, 1936.¹⁷ He was appointed to colporteur work in the South NSW Conference with his cousin and fellow graduate, Cyril Pascoe.¹⁸ Together they commenced selling books in the town of Goulburn and the rural areas north to Crookwell.¹⁹ This town held new significance to Martin, as he met a young woman from Crookwell who held his interest. He made a point of getting to know her family.²⁰

In October 1937²¹ Martin transitioned to working for the conference, starting with helping set up for camp meeting, then becoming tentmaster for evangelist R. H. Powrie in Young, Harden, Grenfell, and Cowra.²² Toward the end of 1938 he assisted George Parker in Goulburn,²³ where they were able to raise up a church in August 1939 after the baptism of 36 charter members.²⁴

Marriage and Family

Joyce Mahalia Willis was born in Crookwell April 18, 1917, to Percival Valentine Willis (1891–1975)²⁵ and Ethel Amy (neé Vidler, 1890–1973).²⁶ She was the eldest of seven children: Amy Melvena (1919–1962),²⁷ Pearle Victoria (Hart, 1922–2013),²⁸ Jonathan (1925–1925),²⁹ Effie Iva (Jackson),³⁰ Percy John (1929-2019)³¹ and Evelyn Ruth.³² Joyce grew up in a farming family and rode her horse ten miles a day to attend the Crookwell Primary School.³³ When she was nine, her parents were baptized into the SDA Church, and she developed a desire to be a missionary.³⁴ She completed her high school studies by correspondence, then went to AMC at Avondale in 1936. She met Martin at the Parramatta camp meeting in 1939 and returned to her home area to do nursing training at the Goulburn Base Hospital.³⁵

Martin and Joyce were engaged in March 1940,³⁶ and they married in Goulburn on March 24, 1941.³⁷ During the next 13 years five children were born to them. They were Doreen Joyce, Wilfred Henry, Ruth Yvonne (Tame), Joan Merlene (Stocken, then Judge) and David Martin (1954–1955).³⁸

Career

In October 1940 Martin transferred to the far western NSW town of Broken Hill, where he worked with F. L. Taylor, and this is where Joyce and Martin began their married life.³⁹ Their first child was born a year later.⁴⁰ While there, as well as taking Bible studies and attending other meetings, he broadcast the Advent Radio Church program from the local radio station, 2BH, each week.⁴¹ After he assisted with an evangelistic series in Broken Hill,⁴² August 1943 saw the family move to Lithgow and Martin join Tom Brash in running an evangelistic series.⁴³ Here their second child was born.⁴⁴

At the beginning of 1945 the Pascoe family returned to serve in Broken Hill and in March, Martin was ordained to the gospel ministry during the conference camp meeting.⁴⁵

Mission Service

With the reopening of the Pacific Islands to missionaries following the end of World War II, Martin was appointed to Papua as the district director at Belepa, on the Vailala River in the Gulf region. He sailed in October,⁴⁶ leaving Joyce and their two children with her parents until the birth of their third child in the new year.⁴⁷ They joined him in April 1946.⁴⁸ In 1948 Martin pioneered a new mission station farther west, among traditionally cannibal tribes⁴⁹ at Baimuru.⁵⁰ Here they had to live on the mission launch while Martin built them a cottage.⁵¹ Joyce was a skilled seamstress, and found she often needed to use this skill to sew up wounds from axes, knives, arrows, crocodiles, and wild pigs!⁵² She also undertook to teach the village women to sew their own clothes and expand their cooking skills.⁵³

They spent their furlough, September 1948–February 1949, visiting family in Australia, and when they returned to Papua, they transferred to a mission station at Korela, in the eastern region of the country. Here Martin was district director for the Hula-Kupiano area until their next furlough, February–August 1952.⁵⁴ Joyce was increasingly busy as she homeschooled their children as well as attended to the medical needs of the surrounding people.⁵⁵

In April 1953, following the reorganization of the Coral Sea Union Mission (CSUM) into two unions and the creation of more local missions,⁵⁶ Martin became the president of the West Papuan Mission, and the family moved back to Baimuru.⁵⁷ His position was changed again, to be the president of the Papuan Gulf Mission in January 1954.⁵⁸ In October 1954 Joyce gave birth to David in Port Moresby,⁵⁹ and Martin left her there with the children while he went on itinerary to the Fly River with John Lee.⁶⁰ There being no roads of any kind in the Gulf region of Papua, all travel at the time was accomplished on the several vessels in the mission fleet. He studied for and obtained his ship’s master’s certificate, and over the years captained ten different vessels of various sizes from launches to forty-footers.⁶¹

On Martin’s return, David’s failure to thrive was causing increasing concern, so the family was invited to take furlough early in order to seek medical advice. They returned to Sydney on March 1, 1955.⁶² Sadly, David died eight days later.⁶³

The family returned to Papua in July 1955⁶⁴ to face the task of establishing a new mission station at Karokaro, about eighty miles closer to Port Moresby than Baimuru.⁶⁵ From 1956 to 1958 Martin spent a lot of time on the Diari traveling throughout his mission territory, contacting people as he threaded his way along the hundreds of intersecting rivers and streams that made up the Gulf region.⁶⁶

In 1957 Doreen left home to do grade 9 at boarding school at Avondale, and the following year Wilfred joined her.⁶⁷ The family spent the year end with them during their fourth furlough⁶⁸ and enjoyed attending the camp meeting for the North NSW Conference where they shared some of their mission experiences.⁶⁹

While they were away, in December 1958, the quadrennial session of the CSUM was held, and Martin was asked to take an inland appointment as a district director in a new area of the Western Highlands that was being developed.⁷⁰ So on their return they moved to Rakamanda in Enga Province. This former SDA headquarters of the Wabag district is situated five miles from Wabag (the government station).⁷¹ It became headquarters for the newly created East Wabag district, and base for reaching into the formerly restricted areas that the government was now allowing missionaries to enter.⁷² Whereas previously Martin had spent weeks at a time away from home on the mission boat taking the gospel along the rivers and streams of the Gulf, here, although he was still on itinerary for many days at a time, it was mostly on foot.⁷³

This was in a cooler climate because of its elevation, and Joyce and their girls were heavily involved in providing warm clothing for those in need.⁷⁴ Ruth left for boarding school in 1959, leaving only Merlene at home.⁷⁵ In the surrounding area were scores of villages but no government clinic services, so Martin had a simple clinic constructed, and soon many were coming to Joyce for medical help. She developed such a reputation as a midwife that women came large distances to give birth at her clinic.⁷⁶

Because of government regulations, Martin was prohibited from entering some of the areas where villagers were asking for a teacher, but he trained local people who faithfully trekked across the mountain ranges and set up mission outposts where the Word of God was taught.⁷⁷ At the 1960 camp meeting at Rakamanda it was reported that they had 1,500 people ready for baptism!⁷⁸ About that time a site just a few miles away from Rakamanda was obtained for the construction of the first Seventh-day Adventist hospital in Papua and New Guinea. Martin and Joyce greatly assisted in the commencement of the project and provided support for those establishing the Sopas Hospital.⁷⁹

The spread of mission work was made easier when Martin was able to obtain a Land Rover to traverse the vehicle tracks that were gradually advancing into territory that was previously extremely difficult to access. He joyfully reported that the government had completed a bridge that gave him access to a whole new area, and stated that by early 1961 it was expected that he would be able to drive all the way to Lae on the coast 400 miles away.⁸⁰ This would remove many problems delaying expansion.

When an area beyond Sopas was “opened,” Martin had eight local teachers ready and ferried them in with the Land Rover to set up new outposts before opposing mission groups could become established and keep them out.⁸¹ On his return he stated he could have placed twenty more had they been available.⁸² The addition of these previously restricted areas greatly increased the missionaries’ workload, as this was found to be the most heavily populated area of the country.⁸³

At the 1961 camp meeting at Rakamanda, 118 were baptized.⁸⁴ Following the camp meeting, Martin and L. T. Greive, Western Highlands SDA president, became the first Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to set foot in the Jimi Valley.⁸⁵ They were invited by a village offering land for a teachers’ house, but were attacked by adherents of another mission in an attempt to drive them off.⁸⁶ Fortunately, the pastors’ peacemaking defused the situation,⁸⁷ and by late 1962 Martin had established a mission outpost there.⁸⁸

Furlough came around again in 1962, and upon their return Martin was acting Western Highlands Mission (WHM) chair for the next six months.⁸⁹ During this time the WHM biennial session was held at Rakamanda, and the compound accommodated more than 1,500 visitors for the meetings.⁹⁰ Martin’s headquarters church was a very impressive local style construction of native materials, and all attendees were able to squeeze into its 165-by-40-foot area.⁹¹

As well as his pastoral leadership, Martin contributed in many other ways, doing whatever was needed to be done around the mission station. Early in 1964 he was attempting to negotiate the local “road” driving a tractor towing a trailer when the trailer slewed from a rudimentary bridge and dangled over the river. He had to stay there with his foot on the brake for four hours while helpers ran for assistance. The government officer obligingly brought a crew of prisoners from the jail at Wapenamanda, who manhandled the trailer back onto the bridge.⁹² Even everyday tasks could be life-threatening in Papua and New Guinea.

In all, Martin spent seven years at Rakamanda, probing into the rugged mountain country around the station, training and placing local teachers in many villages, establishing outposts from which further outreach of the gospel spread.⁹³ After Merlene went to boarding school in 1963, Joyce spent even more time delivering babies and caring for their welfare. She delivered 54 babies that year and, after a district nurse took over the infant welfare work,⁹⁴ was able to deliver even more. By the end of their time at Rakamanda, Joyce had delivered more than five hundred babies.⁹⁵

In January 1967 the Pascoes were transferred to the Moruma Mission Station, about a hundred miles farther east in the Wagi Valley, where Martin became the district director for Simbu Province, Eastern Highlands.⁹⁶ They had barely arrived when Joyce was called to her first delivery. Disgusted with the only place available in which to deliver babies, Martin made available some mission garden land for cash crops, and the village people raised the funds to buy building materials for a purpose-built clinic.⁹⁷ The village council took responsibility for provision of the clinic, and by September 1967 a beautiful three-roomed building supplied with simple but adequate furnishings and facilities was in use.⁹⁸

The following month, Joyce received her official Papua and New Guinean registration as a midwife, after having worked on completing the theoretical component of the requirements.⁹⁹ The fame of her skill and loving care spread widely and her midwifery became virtually a full-time occupation, with women often bypassing hospitals to come to her clinic. By the end of her time in PNG she had delivered more than two thousand babies without having any babies or mothers die.¹⁰⁰

Martin was no less busy, and the remaining years of his service in PNG flew by. In March 1974 he was awarded permanent return to Australia.¹⁰¹ He was 57 years old and was certainly not looking to take things easy, however, he and Joyce had been working in difficult, pioneering and largely primitive conditions for more than 27 years, and all of that time he had been either a district director or president.¹⁰²

It is hard to know how many people Martin baptized during these years. The church was growing rapidly, and at times huge baptisms were held; however, reports of many of these have not survived. Martin rarely wrote articles describing his experiences. He preferred to spend the time doing the work rather than writing about it.¹⁰³ Two baptisms of note recorded by Martin were of 221 people at Vailala in October 1953¹⁰⁴ and of 334 at the Selepa School.¹⁰⁵

Permanent Return to the Homeland

On April 1, 1974, Martin commenced working in the South Queensland Conference as the pastor of the Warwick, Cottonvale “Summit,” and Stanthorpe churches.¹⁰⁶ He remained the pastor of these churches until the end of 1981 except for one year, 1978, spent pastoring Gympie church.¹⁰⁷ Joyce enjoyed the opportunity to make a vegetable garden and the luxury of having time to spend in it.¹⁰⁸

Retirement

Martin retired on December 31, 1981,¹⁰⁹ but continued pastoring his churches until their new pastor arrived. In September he went to Samarai in Milne Bay, PNG, and the Trobriand Islands as a volunteer.¹¹⁰ In 1983 they returned to Warwick, where they had decided to live in retirement, and Martin pastored the “Summit” church as a volunteer.¹¹¹

In 1990 Martin and Joyce moved south to Cooranbong, where they joined the large community of retired church workers and were closer to some of their family. They joined the Kurri Kurri SDA congregation, and both were active in church and community work there.¹¹² A highlight of these years was the jubilee celebration at Rakamanda at the end of 1994,¹¹³ where Martin and Joyce were honored guests and learned that one person in 12 in the Wabag district was then an Adventist.¹¹⁴

Death

In 2003 Martin’s health began to deteriorate, and he died at home on April 19, 2004.¹¹⁵ After his death, Joyce remained active, spending time knitting and crocheting for family members, friends, and needy individuals, as well as caring for her garden. In time her eyesight deteriorated, and she moved into The Lodge hostel. In 2012 she moved into the Avondale Adventist aged-care facility. She died there on February 12, 2015.¹¹⁶

Together Martin and Joyce touched many lives, and a lasting memorial for them was created when the Moruma SDA Church was named the Pascoe Memorial Church.¹¹⁷

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Notes

1. Elwyn Raethel, Wilfred Pascoe, Daron Pratt, “Pascoe,” Australasian Record, May 18, 2004, 30, 31.↩

2. A. H. Piper, “Pascoe,” Australasian Record, November 22, 1954, 7.↩

3. Ibid.↩

4. R. H. Abbot, “Pascoe,” Australasian Record, November 28, 1966, 6.↩

5. Irene Relihan, “Helping the Blind See Jesus,” Australasian Record, March 15, 2008, 8; Avondale Cemetery Records, 2008.↩

6. Wilfred Pascoe and Daron Pratt, “Pascoe,” Australasian Record, September 15, 2007, 14.↩

7. Notes from H. M. Pascoc’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, email message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

8. Ibid.↩

9. “Pastors W. H. Pascoe . . . ,” Australasian Record, March 3, 1919, 8.↩

10. Ibid.↩

11. “That W. H. Pascoe . . . ,” Australasian Record, May 31, 1920, 5; “Pastor Pascoe and family . . . ,” Australasian Record, September 5, 1921, 8.↩

12. “That in response . . . ,” Australasian Record, October 29, 1923, 3.↩

13. Ibid.↩

14. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

15. Ibid.↩

16. Ibid.↩

17. J. Nash and H. Totenhofer, “Graduation Weekend at Avondale,” Australasian Record, December 14, 1936, 3.↩

18. “Appointed to Colporteur Work,” Australasian Record, September 31, 1936, 31.↩

19. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

20. Ibid.↩

21. W. H. Hopkin, “South N. S. W. Conference,” Australasian Record, September 20, 1937, 8.↩

22. “Distribution of Labour,” Australasian Record, November 1, 1937, 8.↩

23. “South N. S. W. Camp-Meeting,” Australasian Record, October 31, 1938, 7.↩

24. G. J. Parker, “God Giveth the Increase,” Australasian Record, April 29, 1940, 3, 4.↩

25. R. D. Trim, “Willis, Percy Valentine,” Australasian Record, July 21, 1975, 15.↩

26. Ken R. Low, “Willis, Mrs. Ethel Amy,” Australasian Record, September 3, 1973, 15.↩

27. E. R. Whitehead, “Willis, Amy Melvena,” Australasian Record, March 12, 1962, 14.↩

28. Wilf Pascoe, “Hart, Pearle Victoria,” Australasian Record, January 18, 2014, 22.↩

29. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

30. Ibid.↩

31. Ibid.↩

32. Ibid.↩

33. Life sketch presented at Joyce Pascoe’s funeral. Unpublished document, original in possession of Doreen Pascoe.↩

34. Ibid.↩

35. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018↩

36. Ibid.↩

37. W. H. Pascoe, “Pascoe–Willis,” Australasian Record, April 28, 1941, 7.↩

38. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

39. W. H. Hopkin, “South N. S. W. Conference Session,” Australasian Record, November 11, 1940, 4.↩

40. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

41. “Brother Martin Pascoe . . . ,” Australasian Record, June 14, 1943, 8.↩

42. “Pastor F. G. Rampton . . . ,” Australasian Record, July 12, 1943, 8.↩

43. “On October 17 . . . ,” Australasian Record, October 4, 1943, 8.↩

44. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

45. P. A. Donaldson, “Forty-ninth Annual Session of the South N. S. W. Conference,” Australasian Record, April 16, 1945, 4; P. A. Donaldson, “Young Camp-Meeting,” Australasian Record, April 16, 1945, 3, 4.↩

46. “During the past . . . ,” Australasian Record, October 29, 1945, 8.↩

47. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

48. Ibid.↩

49. “Pastor and Mrs. Martin Pascoe . . . ,” Australasian Record, March 21, 1955, 16.↩

50. L. Webster, “Medical Missionary Work in Western Papua,” Australasian Record, July 19, 1948, 6.↩

51. Life sketch presented at Joyce Pascoe’s funeral.↩

52. Ibid.↩

53. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

54. Ibid.↩

55. Ibid.; Dr. H. E. Hargreaves, “Medical Missions in the Coral Sea Union,” Australasian Record, November 12, 1951, 4.↩

56. F. A. Mote, “Coral Sea Union Reorganisation,” Australasian Record, May 25, 1953, 2, 3.↩

57. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

58. Helier Martin Pascoe, Personal Service Record, South Pacific Division of the General Conference Archives (Folder: “Pascoe, Helier Martin”; Document: “Personal Service Record”).↩

59. Ibid.↩

60. John R. Lee, “Something New in the Fly River,” Australasian Record, February 14, 1955, 6.↩

61. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

62. “Pastor and Mrs. Martin Pascoe . . . ”↩

63. A. G. Stewart, “Pascoe, David Martin,” Australasian Record, May 23, 1955, 7.↩

64. “On July 25 . . . ,” Australasian Record, August 15, 1955, 8.↩

65. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

66. Ibid.↩

67. Ibid.↩

68. “With their two younger . . . ,” Australasian Record, September 8, 1958, 8.↩

69. Edward J. Garrard, “Revitalising Influences and Figures at Northern Camp-Meeting,” Australasian Record, February 2, 1959, 6.↩

70. F. G. Clifford, “Our Island Field, Advances in Union Missions,” Australasian Record, February 9, 1959, 4.↩

71. L. T. Greive, “A Call Answered in Wabag,” Australian Record, March 18, 1957, 1.↩

72. A. J. Campbell, “West Wabag District,” Australasian Record, October 5, 1959, 3.↩

73. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

74. Betty Murray, “First Look at Wabag,” Australasian Record, October 10, 1960, 2.↩

75. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

76. R. L. Aveling, “Conquest and Consolidation in the Western Highlands of New Guinea,” Australasian Record, September 2, 1962, 8, 9.↩

77. “Wabag Camp Meeting,” Australasian Record, September 19, 1960, 8.↩

78. Ibid.↩

79. Ralph S. Murray, “Sunrise Over Sopas,” Australasian Record, October 10, 1960, 1.↩

80. “Extension of Communications,” Australasian Record, October 17, 1960, 12.↩

81. R. S. Murray, “To Move Fast or to Delay?” Australasian Record, October 16, 1961, 5.↩

82. Ibid.↩

83. L. T. Greive, “Presidents on Patrol,” Australasian Record, April 16, 1962, 1, 2.↩

84. F. G. Clifford, “Mission Sessions in New Guinea Highlands,” Australasian Record, September 25, 1961, 1, 2.↩

85. L. T. Grieve, “A Firm Foothold in Less Accessible Areas,” Australasian Record, September 30, 1963, 4.↩

86. F. W. Butler, “Seven-day Masters Come at Last,” Australasian Record, January 15, 1962. 10.↩

87. Ibid.↩

88. L. T. Grieve, “A Firm Foothold in Less Accessible Areas.”↩

89. Helier Martin Pascoe, Personal Service Record.↩

90. Aveling, 8, 9.↩

91. Ibid.↩

92. Mrs. L. T. Greive, “Severe Earth Tremor in New Guinea Highlands,” Australasian Record, May 25, 1964, 3.↩

93. Helier Martin Pascoe, Personal Service Record.↩

94. Olive Fisher, “Wabag Clinic Sister,” Australasian Record, February 17, 1964, 7.↩

95. H. A. Dickins, “Her 800th Baby,” Australasian Record, November 3, 1969, 1.↩

96. Helier Martin Pascoe, Personal Service Record.”↩

97. Joyce M. Pascoe, “They Needed a Maternity Clinic,” Australasian Record, February 12, 1968, 8.↩

98. Ibid.↩

99. Life sketch presented at Joyce Pascoe’s funeral; notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries.↩

100. Life sketch presented at Joyce Pascoe’s funeral.↩

101. “And while we . . . ,” Australasian Record, April 8, 1974, 16.↩

102. Helier Martin Pascoe, Personal Service Record.”↩

103. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries.↩

104. H. M. Pascoe, “News From West Papua,” Australasian Record, November 23, 1953, 3.↩

105. H. M. Pascoe, “Not the Largest,” Australasian Record, November 7, 1977, 12.↩

106. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

107. Ibid.↩

108. Life sketch presented at Joyce Pascoe’s funeral.↩

109. “Roll of Honour,” Australasian Record, May 31, 1982, 14.↩

110. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩

111. Ibid.↩

112. Ibid.↩

113. Laurence Gilmore and Ken Lui, “30,000 Attend Enga Celebrations,” Australasian Record, February 11, 1995, 11.↩

114. Ibid.↩

115. Raethel, Pascoe, and Pratt, 30, 31.↩

116. Life sketch presented at Joyce Pascoe’s funeral.↩

117. Notes from H. M. Pascoe’s diaries, Doreen Pascoe, e-mail message to author, October 23, 2018.↩