About These Windows
The 27 stained glass windows were given in honor or memory of members of the church. The design, manufacture and installation of the windows was entrusted to the San Antonio Glass Company which specialized in the manufacture of stained glass artifacts. The chief designer, manufacturing artisan was a 20-year old lady, Helen Fern Goolsby (Mrs. Charles Slimp, Sr.). She not only helped with the leading of the glass but personally supervised the installation of the windows. In an interview on the occasion of her hundredth birthday she ventured, "I think my masterpiece is in the little Methodist Church in Center Point." In 2022, Jack Whitworth (grandson of James Blackshear Powell, one of the early members of the Center Point Methodist Church), began a skilled preservation of the windows.
Window 1 - in memory of Rev. John Goss and J. Lee Goss
Window 2 - In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Sidney B. Rees and Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Rees
Window 3 - in memory of Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Bruff
Window 4 - in memory of Mrs. Pearl leverett Surber
Window 5 - in memory of mother by W.L. Ezzell
Window 6 - donated by The Young Men's Class
Window 7 - in memory of Henry Tatum
Window 8 - in memory of Elizabeth Tatum
Window 9 - in memory of James B. Powell, Ancil Powell L. Tod, M. Whitworth
Window 10 - in memory of Mrs. H.T. Hill
Window 11 - in honor of M.V. Vaughn
Window 12 - in honor of H.T. Hill
Window 13 - donated by Class No. 4, Miss Rowena (spelled Roena on window) Rees, teacher
Window 14 - donated by Class No. 2, Mrs. Albert Rees, teacher
Window 15 - Dr. & Mrs. J.W. Merritt
Window 16 - donated by Class No. 6, Miss Bettie Hodges, teacher
Window 17 - in memory of Mrs. M.V. Vaughn
Window 18 - donated by Class No. 9, John B. Rees, teacher
Window 19 - junior league
Window 20 - donated by Class No. 1, Mrs. A. Barleman, teacher
Window 21 - in memory of W.D.C. Burney and Mrs. M.A. Burney
Window 22 - in memory of Sallie Nowlin, Zora Nowlin Rees, and Susie Nowlin Burney
Window 23 - in memory of Richard Wade Nowlin and Mrs. Susan A. Nowlin
Window 24 - donated by Epworth League
Window 25 - donated by Epworth League
Window 26 - in memory of Judge H.M. Burney and Mrs. H.M. Burney
Window 27 - in memory and honor of Rev. W.E. Pafford and Mrs. E.E. Pafford