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Lily Grace Gosnell, 18, of Chuckey, Tennessee, who attended Fairview Cumberland Presbyterian Church, died May 3, 2021, after a severe asthma attack led to respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. She was a senior at Chuckey-Doak High School and a member of the soccer team. Lily was an organ donor.

A Call To Prayer As the Office of General Assembly moves forward with plans for an in-person General Assembly at the end of June in Louisville KY, I have been listening to the Holy Spirit as to what, if any, thoughts I could share in a final pastoral letter to the church before my time […]

Jewell “Charlotte” Beard Davis, 87, died April 29, 2021, in Missouri. She was born on the family farm near Competition, Missouri, July 28, 1933, to Stanley & Helen (Johnson) Beard. Charlotte joined White Oak Pond Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Missouri Presbytery) when she married Carl Jean Davis, February 3, 1951. She was a member for over 70 […]

Arkansas Presbytery has nominated and endorsed the Reverend Alan Meinzer, pastor of the Barren Fork Cumberland Presbyterian Church, for Moderator of the 190th General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, June 27 through July 2, 2021. The Reverend Alan Meinzer does not have a Cumberland Presbyterian heritage, but he […]

Rev. John Grover Lovelace The Reverend John Grover Lovelace (North Central Presbytery), 91, known to some as J.G., died April 30, 2021, in Evansville. Indiana. Born in Ada, Oklahoma, August 26, 1929, to Mr. And Mrs. John G. Lovelace, Sr., John was baptized in 1939 and joined the Latta Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Ada, Oklahoma, […]

MCKENZIE, Tenn. April 15, 2021 – Bethel University is planning to return to near-normal operations for the fall 2021 semester. Plans being developed on the McKenzie campus for the College of Arts & Sciences this fall include a return to in-classroom instruction as the default mode of instruction and a more robust campus life experience, […]

According to WREG television reporter, Melissa Moon, “Jack Brewer of Memphis Ghost Hunters, recently got the deed to the Old Raleigh Cemetery on Old Raleigh LaGrange Road” in Memphis, Tennessee, and intends to raise funds to restore the property. It is not clear what WREG means by Brewer’s claim of ownership or of “got the […]

Neely Gwen McCain, 93, of Lexington, Alabama, died April 25, 2021. Born January 29, 1928, to Richard Coleman and Verna Blanch Thomas McCain in Lexington, Neely became a member of Nebo Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery) in his youth. He married Mary Olene Putman and they had four sons. The Nebo church became like an […]

Ruth Ann McClaran Kelly,87, widow of the Reverend Lawrence Kelly (Columbia Presbytery), died Sunday, April 18, 2021 in Crossville, Tennessee. She was a member of Green Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery) in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.

Bidwell Allen Green, 91, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, died April 21, 2021. He was a member and elder of the Steam Mill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Grace Presbytery). He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.