Oscar Gene Lindsey, 94, of Paducah, Kentucky, died April 21, 2021. He was a lifelong member of Woodlawn Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) in Paducah. He sang in the choir, served as an elder for many years, and taught a Sunday school class. He was also an interim choir director with his wife, Jeanette. Oscar was known for his bass voice and sang in a quartet with church members, with the Hawkins quartet and Hamilton Brother quartet on a local radio program/station at WPAD in the 1950s. Oscar served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
About Matthew Gore
Matthew H. Gore is a British journalist, historian, popular culturist, archivist, and educator residing in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the immediate past-president of the Society of Tennessee Archivists and is best known for his book The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988 (2000). He has also published on a variety of topics as diverse as The Origin of Marvelman (a British superhero of the 1950s and 1960s), the relative scarcity of East German philatelics, and the biography of British pulp artist, Denis McLoughlin. He is employed by the Ministry Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at the Cumberland Presbyterian Center in Memphis, Tennessee, as editor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Magazine and as publications manager. He has been associated with both Western Kentucky University, which honored him with their James H. Poteet Award, and the University of Kentucky. He also serves as editor for all Boardman Books (Memphis, Tennessee) publications.
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