William Lee Barron, 88, of Columbia, Tennessee, died April 15, 2023. He was better known as Jack. He graduated from Parsons High School and attended Bethel College in McKenzie, Tennessee, where he presumably met Martha Fern Hickman, the fellow graduate who became his wife. Jack earned a master’s degree in education from Middle Tennessee State University and was a career educator. He was an elder at Columbia First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery). His son, William Lee Barron II, is an elder at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee (Presbytery of East Tennessee). Laura Barron is a member of Brenthaven Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Brentwood, Tennessee (Nashville Presbytery). The Reverend Mark Hickman Barron is pastor of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Manchester, Tennessee (Murfreesboro Presbytery).