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Pearlie Mae Mitchell, 89, of Dyersburg, Tennessee, died April 11, 2022. She was well know as a song leader and piano player for Beech Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America (New Hopewell Presbytery) in Dyersburg where she was also an elder.

Brenthaven Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery) in Brentwood, Tennessee, suffered damage to the roof, gutters, fence, and most notably to the steeple which was entirely sheered off the building in a thunderstorm which passed through the Nashville suburb on the night of April 13, 2022. Some church choir members were in the building at the […]

Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) in Fredonia, Kentucky, serves as a storm shelter for their Caldwell County community as needs arise.

“It’s up to us to prepare it [the church sanctuary] for the next generation or two,” the Reverend Mark Hester said. Hester is pastor of Loudon Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee) in Loudon, Tennessee The session plans to renovate the sanctuary of the historic church building, which will celebrate its 140th anniversary in […]

The Reverend Jerrell Morris Underwood, Sr., 85, of Irvington, Kentucky, died April 11, 2022. Jerrell, an honorably retired member of Cumberland Presbytery, was born July 14, 1936, in Fulton, Kentucky, to G.A. and Willene Underwood. He met Lavesta Sue Britton at a church social and they married on November 24, 1955, while Jerrell was a […]

Born January 2, 1901, in the Bells Chapel community in Gibson County, Tennessee, Claude White joined the US Navy in September 1920. On December 7, 1941, he was chief water tender on the battleship USS Oklahoma which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when air forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked. Chief […]

CNN, 4/10/2022 It’s been hailed as a bipartisan triumph. • “Ooh, I love it,” exclaimed Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. • “An idea whose time has come,” said GOP Sen. Marco Rubio. • “Common-sense legislation,” Democratic Sen. Patty Murray labeled it. The Sunshine Protection Act, which cleared the Senate by unanimous consent last month, would make […]

Joyce Bray Mynatt, 89, of Mount Pleasant, Arkansas, died April 1, 2022. She was a lifelong member of the Barren Fork Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery) where she loved to sing and to volunteer for anything needed in the church.

Synod of Great Rivers met April 2, 2022, at Fort Smith Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Reverend Ronald L. McMillan (West Tennessee Presbytery) was elected moderator and the Reverend Corey Cummings (West Tennessee Presbytery) vice-moderator. Re-elected the Reverend Andy McClung (West Tennessee Presbytery) as stated clerk and Kitty Stamps (Fort Smith CPC, Arkansas […]

Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois, notified the Illinois Board of Higher Education and Higher Learning Commission on March 30, 2022, that the institution would “permanently close” May 13, 2022. “The Board of Trustees has voted to cease all academic programming at the end of the spring semester,” the administration said. Some faculty and staff will […]