The Rev. Paul Andree, Telephone Pastor, Dies
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	       Donora - The Daily Republican  Herald-American
		     Monessen - The Valley Independant
			      April 6, 1970
			 

  Funeral services will be held tomorrow in Monongahela for the Rev. Paul 
H Andree, who died in his Main St, New Eagle home on Friday, April 3, 
1970, at 2:15 P.M.
  Mr Andree, who was 91 at the time of his death, was well known for the 
unique telephone ministry he had conducted from his home since his 
retirement seven years ago as pastor of Monongahela's Church of the 
Nazarene.
  He had continued his phone ministry until two weeks ago when he became 
too ill to carry it on.
  His "retirement" after 37 years as pastor of the Church of the Nazarene 
also included the writing of religious tracts on over 50 subjects. He had 
more than 50,000 of these published for free distribution, using much of 
his Social Security income to finance the printing.
  He was a frequent contributor to the Public Forum column of The Daily 
Republican and The Herald-American.
  Mr Andree's ministry by phone began one day when he received a call 
from a woman who asked him to pray for her. She told the retired 
clergyman that the medication was not effective in relieving pains she 
was having in her head.
  Mr Andree decided to pray for her while she was on the phone instead 
of waiting for his normal daily time of prayer. The next day he called 
the woman back and discovered that her head pain had left about ten 
minutes after Mr Andree had prayed with her on the phone. The woman told 
others of her experience and Mr Andree started receiving other calls for 
help.
  He began calling shutins, the old and neglected, people in trouble and 
those bereaved by death and offered to pray with them over the phone.
  From 8 AM until 9:30 PM he made and received his calls from his New 
Eagle  home, where he lived alone and where his door was always open to 
what he liked to call his "House of Prayer."
  In 1965 he began keeping a record of his "contacts", as he called them 
and at one point in his telephone ministry Mr Andree was making as many 
as 18,000 contacts a year. He received no remuneration for his retirement 
ministry.
  Born in Webster on Sept. 27, 1878, he had in his youth hoped for a 
baseball career and was at one point recommended to the Pittsburgh 
Pirates by the Mayor of McKeesport.
  But at the age of 18, he attended a revival meeting and from that day 
on he was a man of God. He began to help in the church he was attending. 
When he was asked to help at the Monongahela Church of the Nazarene 
until the congregation could obtain a minister, he did. And he remained 
there for 37 years - from 1925 until his retirement in 1962.
  He was quoted in 1950 as saying, "I was converted in the Fells 
Methodist Church, back of Webster, in which church I met my wife, the 
former Sarah Zimmerman." Mrs Andree and a daughter, Christina Johnston, 
preceded him in death.
  He is survived by a daughter, Mrs John (Ethel) Johnston of Monongahela; 
two sons, Howard of ST. Clairsville (Sinclairville), N.Y.; and the Rev 
John Andree of Flint, Mich.; 11 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.
  Friends will be received in the Bebout & Yohe Co. Funeral Home, 300 
Second St.; Monongahela, until 11 A.M. tomorrow, when Mr Andree's remains 
will be removed to his former church, the Church of the Nazarene, for 
funeral services at 1 P.M.

Transcribed by Paul H Andree III; grandson
Eustis, Florida		pandree@netmender.net
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