Befitting names redux

[Mark Mandel]

According to Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Clare_Prophet) she married
into the surname. The article on her husband
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Prophet) is much briefer and says
nothing about whether it was his original surname.

>From the article on her:

Prophet was born Elizabeth Clare Wulf in Red Bank, New Jersey to Hans
and Fridy Wulf.  ...

On April 22, 1961, her [Christian Science] group invited Mark Prophet,
who claimed to be a messenger for the Ascended masters, to speak in
Boston. She attended this meeting at which Mark claimed to give a
message, from the Archangel Michael; afterwards, she asked Mark to
train her to be a "messenger". Mark and Elizabeth were married in
1963, had four children, and together administered The Summit
Lighthouse, which Mark had founded in 1958. ...

On February 26, 1973, Mark Prophet died of a stroke. Elizabeth assumed
leadership of their organization, which then began its first foray
into survivalism, based on instructions she said Mark gave her the
night before his stroke.

m a m

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Two recent deaths:
>
> Justice (federal district court, Texas) William Wayne Justice.
>
> Prophet (or at least "church founder") Elizabeth Clare
> Prophet. Â (According to the NYTimes, she "called on her followers in
> the late 1980s to prepare for nuclear Armageddon" -- perhaps merely a
> premature prophet.)
>
> Joel
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