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by JONATHAN BETZ
WFAA
Posted on March 21, 2012
CORSICANA – Many describe Gary Welch as a popular youth minister at Corsicana’s Northside Baptist Church. A man, church members say, who was just as eager to embrace a child as to counsel them.
“Gary was always cool with us,” said Devan Putman, 15.
She’s been a member of the church’s youth group for as long as Welch was its leader.
“[He was] always giving us hugs and high-fiving us,” she said. “I just couldn’t believe it.”
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