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Allan L. Edsell II died January 1, 2021. Allan was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the husband of OUO Coordinator Calotta Loyd Edsell. Pandemic restrictions delayed Allan’s memorial service of celebration which will now be held at Brenthaven Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, Saturday, June 12th, 2021. Visitation will begin at […]

Donald Ray Terrell, 84, of Cunningham, Tennessee, died May 29, 2021. He was an elder at Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery). Born February 14, 1937, in Woodlawn, Tennessee, to Angus and Earlene Wooten Terrell, Donald was a veteran of the United States Army and was a retired pipefitter.

Rosie May McCoyle Rogers, 94, of Symsonia, Kentucky, a member of the Oakland Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery), died May 29, 2021. Her daughter, Lora Rogers Kerner, serves the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination as an elected member of the Ministry Council. Granddaughter, the Reverend Leanne Kerner, is Director of Youth and Children’s Ministries at Lake Highlands […]

MCKENZIE, Tenn. – The Bethel University Sports Information Office released an early look at the 2021 Wildcat Football schedule Thursday, May 27, 2021. After a sterling start to the season (2020) earlier this year, the Wildcats suffered through four straight disappointing losses to end the abbreviated year at 3-4. The 2021 schedule will as always […]

The Reverend Dr. Robert Aaron Craig, 86, died October October 24th, 2020, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, from COVID-19. Dr. Craig was born on May 7th 1934, to John Conway Craig and Ara Jewel Crawford in Lubbock, TX.  They lived in a 1 bedroom home with his siblings Margie, John and Jim.  He married Dr. Virginia R. […]

Florence Irene Sharpe, 86, died unexpectedly Monday, May 17, 2021, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was mother to Cumberland Presbyterian General Assembly Stated Clerk and Ministry Counsel Advisory Member the Reverend Mike Sharpe (Red River Presbytery). She was born November 14, 1934, in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Stanley Frank and Mary Wanda Baranowski Zylka. She married Daniel […]

Elizabeth Dora Seiler Kisling, 87, best known as Pat, died May 14, 2021. Pat was an elder from the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Cumberland Presbyterian Church and served the Cumberland Presbyterian Denomination as assistant to Kentucky Synod executives the Reverends James W. Knight and J.C. Womack at the Kentucky Synodic Center when it was located in […]

Doris S. English, 92, died in Johnson City, Tennessee, April 26, 2021. A talented pianist and soloist, Doris was a member and provided music ministry for Pleasant Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee) in Chuckey, Tennessee. She was born August 26, 1928, to the Reverend Bert H. Styles and Lucy Penland Styles.

Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee, announced May 13, 2021, that eSports would be the institutions 26th varsity team sport. Over 250 accredited Colleges and Universities in the United States compete in varsity eSports. There are currently fourteen eSports teams in the Mid-South Conference competing in a variety of games, including League of Legends, Rocket League, […]

The Reverend Howard Leslie Bone, 81, of Independence, Missouri, known to most as Leslie, died May 10, 2021. He was born June 13, 1939, to Howard Taft Bone and Ruby Mae Puckett Bone in the Wheel community in Carlisle County, Kentucky, and raised in Lowes, Kentucky, in Graves County near Mayfield. He was baptized and […]