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- "Mack" Wolford, born 1968 in Pike County, was an American Pentecostal pastor at the Full Gospel Apostolic House of the Lord Jesus, Matoaka, West Virginia, one of the few remaining small Appalachian Pentecostal sects known as "sign followers". He was known all over Appalachia as a daring man of conviction. He believed that the Bible mandates that Christians handle serpents to test their faith in God - and that, if they are bitten, they trust in God alone to heal them. The son of Mrs. Vicie Hicks Haywood and a serpent handler who himself died in 1983 after being bitten, Wolford was trying to keep the practice alive, both in West Virginia, where it is legal, and in neighboring states where it is not. He was married to Frances Elizabeth Dawson Wolford. The flamboyant Pentecostal pastor whose serpent-handling talents were profiled November 2011 in The Washington Post Magazine, hoped the outdoor service he had planned for this Sunday, at an isolated state park would be a "homecoming like the old days," full of folks speaking in tongues, handling snakes and having a "great time." But it was not the sort of homecoming he foresaw. Instead, Mack Wolford, who turned 44 the previous day, was bitten by a rattlesnake he owned for years. He died late Sunday 27/12 2012.
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Mark Syers was born on 25 October 1952 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Pacific Overtures (1976), Camera Three (1955) and Anatomy of a Song (1976). He died on 15 May 1983 in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.