Homer Alvan Rodeheaver was an American evangelist, music director, music publisher, composer of gospel songs, and pioneer in the recording of sacred music.
Homer Rodeheaver, circa 1910–1915
"H. A. Rodeheaver training chorus girls"
Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursqua
Homer Rodeheaver
…heart keeps right." Rodeheaver never married, though he "had a few very close brushes with matrimony" and even proposed to Canadian-American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who turned him down. His half-sister Ruth and her husband, Jim Thomas, lived with him and served as his hostess. Rodeheaver "loved to be surrounded…
Sister Aimee in the early 1920s
Aimee Semple and her second husband Harold McPherson. For a time Harold traveled with his wife Aimee in the "Gospel Car" as an itinerant preacher.
Aimee Semple McPherson and her third husband, David L. Hutton, enjoying their honeymoon breakfast in 1932. Hutton assisted in some of McPherson's charity work before their divorce in 1934.
McPherson dedicating Angelus Temple in 1923