DeKalb History Center
We have an extensive collection of archival material from Rock Chapel United Methodist Church. Several years ago, the DH

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We have an extensive collection of archival material from Rock Chapel United Methodist Church.

Several years ago, the DHC published a blog on CHIPS, a monthly newsletter produced by the Rock Chapel community for local soldiers serving overseas. While CHIPS was a newsletter, photographs in the Rock Chapel United Methodist Church scrapbook document the day-to-day happenings during the same time period. Nearly 40 members of Rock Chapel community served in the military during the war, and their absence was deeply felt throughout the community. The author of CHIPS captured that feeling poignantly: "Rock Chapel is still the same old place... count on that. There's a big empty space over on the mountain where the rock has been blasted out. And there's a big empty space in our lives where you all used to be, too." (Shown in front) WAC Corporal Margaret Pearce, née Mitchell. Margaret was born in the Rock Chapel Community, the oldest of five girls. When World War II broke out, since there were no boys in her family, Margaret decided to serve, joining the WACS, the Women's Army Corps. She was stationed at Turner Field, Albany and rose to ranks of Corporal. CHIPS, the community magazine applauded her other achievement of becoming a good bowler while at Turner Air Field.
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