schirmer. >> he said, "i'm fine, but i don't think my wife is. i think my wife is hurt." >> reporter: dickerson asked the pastor to turn on the car's interior light. >> when he turned it on, there was just blood everywhere in the car. >> reporter: betty was lying in the passenger seat, shivering and covered in blood. the pastor appeared to be in shock, staring blankly straight ahead. >> i said, "what were you doing out here?" and he said his wife had some sort of a problem with her mouth, maybe a toothache, and he had to bring her to the hospital d that's what he wasasoing out on that road, you know, that early in the morng. >>eporter: dickerson cblled 911. they needed ananmbulance fast. >> the car didn't flip over or anything. they just hit a guardrail. but she seems to be hurt pretty bad here. >> reporter: emts arrived within minutes and betty was taken to the regional trauma a nter. her son nate, away from home on a business trip, rushed to her bedside, totally unprepared for what he would f

schirmer?od wants to hear you for his many admirers, he was the eloquent pastor making a joyful noise unto the lord with his christian quartet. a.b. to his friends, a small-town methodist preacher in eastern pennsylvania. >> he was our friend, our confidante, just an all-around good guy. >> reporter: darryl cox sang alongside a.b. for 20 years. he'd seen the fresh-faced young pastor grow into an accomplished and devoted preacher. >> all of the things that he helped my family with over the years, he was always there. >> reporter: he'd watched his friend the pastor raise his music-loving family. a.b. and his wife jewel even performed together. >> they sang together many, many times. they were quite the duo as far as duets were concerned in the church. just seemed like the all-american couple. >> reporter: the couple's daughters julie and amy. >> my mom and dad were people who loved each other, took care of each other. we're just a very close family. >> reporter: but a deep sadness fell over the s

schirmer? >> i knew he was a pastor. so i had respect for him right away. i thought he was a decent guy for my mom. >> reporter: and, in fact, it was the reverend, his stepfather, who officiated at nate's wedding at a beach a couple of years later. a.b. had embraced his new wife's big family and they him. they were thrilled to see their sister find such happiness after coming out of a long marriage that had soured. betty's mother, jean, was just delighted that her daughter had found such a fine, upstanding man. >> he was so nice. you know, we just didn't think there was anybody better than >> reporter: with this fresh chapter in his life opening up, a.b. took a new church posting as the pastor of reeders united methodist church in the rural poconos of northeastern pennsylvania, about two hours away from his old church in lebanon. nate said his mother was homesick at first. >> she was upset, i think, initially just being so far away from not only myself but also the rest of her family, as well.