Posts by Matthew Gore

Mary Frances Hon, 81, of Olathe, Kansas, died May 21, 2023. She was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Warrensburg, Missouri (Missouri Presbytery), where she served as a Sunday school teacher.

On December 10, 2021, an EF-3 tornado caused so much damage to the Dresden Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery for the Mid-South) in Dresden, Tennessee, that the structure had to be demolished. Nashville’s WSMV television recently covered the church’s struggle to rebuild and to obtain FEMA funds. https://www.wsmv.com/2023/05/18/faith-vs-fema-churches-destroyed-by-tornados-denied-femas-help-their-hour-need/ https://www.wsmv.com/2023/06/03/fema-responds-wsmv4-investigation-revealing-churches-denied-disaster-aid-over-paperwork-problems/  

Irlba Mae Fisher, 94, of Parsons, Tennessee, died May 19, 2023. She was a charter member of the Parsons First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cornerstone Presbytery) in Parsons, Tennessee.

The Rev. Bernice Belt was installed as pastor of Grace Covenant Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Paducah, Kentucky, Saturday, May 20, 2023, by a commission of Covenant Presbytery consisting of the Rev. Olen Russell of Highland Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Larry Buchanan of Milburn Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Nick Ashley of Flat Lick […]

Synod of Great Rivers met in a called meeting, via Zoom, on April 23, 2023. The Palestine (Dyer County, Tennessee) and Atwood, Tennessee, congregations were transferred from Presbytery of the Midsouth to Cornerstone Presbytery as requested by the churches. The name of the newly formed Presbytery of the Midsouth was changed to Presbytery for the […]

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 […]

Linda Alice Campbell Hamilton, 80, of Bertram, Texas, died May 15, 2023. She was a member of Bertram Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Trinity Presbytery) where her husband Samuel is an elder.

Nita Lee Frances Roberts Stoutjesdyk, 92, of the Lake ‘O The Pines community near Daingerfield, Texas, died May 15, 2023, due to dementia. She was a member of Daingerfield Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Trinity Presbytery) and a former member of Jefferson Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Trinity Presbytery). She regularly attended Trinity Presbytery with husband James Stoutjesdyk.

John Madison Dennis, Jr., 87, of Whitesboro, Texas, died May 11, 2023. He was a member, and the music leader, of Sandy Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery) in Sandusky, Texas.

Donnie Bruce Tomes, 74 of Big Reedy community in the northwest corner of Edmonson County, Kentucky, died May 13, 2023.  Donnie was saved as a 10-year-old boy at Mount Pleasant Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) near Caneyville, where he became an elder in 1974.