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The Reverend Charles “Keith” O’Keith Eddlemon, Jr., 56, of Memphis, Tennessee, a member of West Tennessee Presbytery, died July 8, 2021. He served on the teaching staff at Lindenwood Christian Church in Memphis and, after graduating from Memphis Theological Seminary and being ordained, was the pastor of Cherokee Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery) in Cherokee, […]

Jesse B. Jones, 87, of Jackson and Union City, Tennessee, died July 3, 2021. He was a faithful member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church while a resident of Union City, and later at Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Jackson, where he served in many different capacities. Both churches are in West Tennessee Presbytery.

Frank Butcher Hillard Franklin Butcher, Jr., 75, died July 12, 2021. Frank was a former 40-year member and elder of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cookeville, Tennessee, (Murfreesboro Presbytery) but was currently a member of Cloyd’s Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, (Murfreesboro Presbytery) where his son, the Reverend Kenneth Franklin Butcher, is associate […]

Elizabeth Smith Love Everett of Chattanooga, Tennessee, died July 7, 2021. She was a long-time member of Red Bank Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) and taught a women’s Sunday school class for many years.

MCKENZIE, Tenn. July 8, 2021 – Bethel University announced on Thursday that it will extend its waiver of standardized test requirements for admission through the fall semester of 2022. The waiver comes as part of the University’s continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic and applies only to the College of Arts and Sciences traditional undergraduate […]

Ronald Charles Stevens, 76, of Des Moines, Iowa, died June 30, 2021. Ron was a deacon at Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee) in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he was plant manager at BTL Industries.

The Shepherd’s Pie Food Pantry operated by Magnolia Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) in Magnolia, Kentucky, was one of eight nonprofit organizations to receive grants June 18, 2021, from Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation’s Operation Round-Up. Operation Round-Up is a nonprofit grant program funded by members of Nolin RECC who volunteer to “round up” their […]

William Walter Burton, Jr., 79, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, died July 1, 2021. Bill was an elder at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Murfreesboro (Murfreesboro Presbytery). He had been president of the Rutherford County Bar Association, chair of the Rutherford County Red Cross and the Heart Association, and president of the Exchange Club of Murfreesboro.

Betty Sue Rhamy, 70, of Troy, Tennessee, died June 22, 2021. Betty was an elder, session clerk, church secretary, and musician at Protemus Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery). She was a Golden Patron Member of Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry and served as secretary of the Forked Deer Region CPWM as well as of her […]

Joel Lee Pedrick, Jr., 68, of Franklin, Tennessee, died July 4, 2021. Joel was an elder of Mt. Carmel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery). A past president of the Tennessee Gas Propane Association, Joel was a consultant in logistics and worked in the propane industry for over 49 years.