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Titchenell
(Continued from Page 4) degrees from Crozer Theological Seminary and Georgetown College, then went on to receive a Masters Of Divinity from Crozer and a Masters in Education from Madison College. During all of his assignments in the ministry, Titchenell has taken advantage of nearby universities to further his education. He’s taken courses at West Virginia University, Temple University, University of Virginia, Denver University and the University of Wisconsin. He was also selected to attend the Freedoms Foundation School at Valley Forge in 1974 for a four-weeks course on communism.
Baptist Ministry
After his ordination as a Baptist minister, Titchenell was assigned to a parish in Wadestown, West Virginia and then moved to Warren County where he ministered to congregations in Bentonville, Browntown and Rileyville in the early 1950’s.
Following a whirlwind courtship, he married Blondina Titchenell in 1946, ten weeks and one day after first meeting her. Four children, three grandchildren and 32 years later, their partnership is still secure.
With his new bride, Titchenell was transferred to Kopperston and spent five months selling the idea of social security to Baptist Ministers in West Virginia.
The family’s next stop was Philadelphia where Titchenell founded the Kensington Christian Center, a settlement house that offered spiritual support and practical help to the community’s needy. An old newspaper clipping in Blondina’s family album shows the young minister up on a ladder, hard at work with hammer and nails. He did much of the restoration himself to turn the abandoned building into a settlement house with thrift shop, dental clinic for children, social center for the elderly and vocational training workshop.
Titchenell spent hours in the workshop, building furniture for his family when his limited salary as a minister wouldn’t stretch to cover the things they needed for their home. The end tables, lamp, couch and coffee table that he made in those days have lasted through the years and now grace the living room in the Woodville parsonage.
During his next assignment in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, Titchenell was strickenwith tuberculosis and spent ten months in the Bucks County Sanatorium. “They wanted me to stay for two more months to harden but I signed myself out,” he recalled.
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