New Market Church Member Turns 100

New Market Church Member Turns 100
Story by Tiffany Doss

Longtime New Market (Va.) church member Silas Still Sr. recently celebrated his 100th birthday. Silas has been a deacon and member of the Potomac Conference church since 1952, and is the oldest member to ever hold membership there.

Mayor of New Market gives Silas Still, Sr Certificate to Centurian Club...

As a result of a 1947 revival meeting in Olean, N.Y., Still and his family were baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Wanting his children to have a Christian education, Silas accepted a call to be dairy manager at Shenandoah Valley Academy in New Market, Va., in 1952. He retired from denominational work after 28 years of service, 24 of those at Shenandoah Valley Academy in the dairy and as a bindery salesman.

Silas still enjoys visits from former students, faculty and alumni of Shenandoah Valley Academy.