Well that was till he and his wife divorced.
But a couple years before the divorce in early 80's they where hosting a Christmas time party in their home
and had a really nice big dinning room where they had enjoyed dinner and then everyone retired to the basement where they where watching a movie and exchanging gifts and enjoying dessert . There where candles still lighted on the dinning room table when they went down stairs and one of the candles was unstable fell and caught the table on fire the fire quickly started to smoke up the house and my friends then wife came up stairs to get a cake slicer she forgot to find the dinning room ablaze.
They called the Hampton Fire Dept they quickly arrived and where able to hold the flames and damage mostly to the dining room but there was smoke damage all thru the first floor the fire was intense enough that it burned thru the dining room table and caused the ceiling chandelier to come crashing down .
The walls and entire room where covered with a thick black soot .
except for one very strange situation . My friends wife loved Hummel Figure's and had them all over the house and the dining room was no exception except she had a Hummel Manger Set with the baby Jesus ,which was set on a bed of straw. like the one in the picture below .
By what some have called a miracle the fire never touched the manger set not one spec of dust or soot on it even with as intense as the flames where right beside this set it was untouched. The county fire officials and Insurance investigators who came to the home could not believe their own eyes. While some have called it a miracle and a sign from God others have dismissed it as a freak incident of flame travel. Unfortunate I have not been able to find any pictures of the incident as the fire was far enough back files have gotten lost or where destroyed.
But I saw it with my own eyes and can not explain it other than to say it is a sign of a higher power.
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