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The Reverend Wallace Wade Acton, 90, (Grace Presbytery) of Glencoe, Alabama, died March 24, 2021. Wade was born August 21, 1930 in Sterrett, Alabama, near Birmingham, to the Reverend Armon Clarence Acton and Thelma May White Acton. After Thelma’s death, Armon married Ruth Harper when Wade was sixteen. Wade had seven siblings. He attended Cahaba […]

Carthel Melford “Charlie” Chandler, 94, of Dyersburg, Tennessee, died March 12, 2021. He was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Dyersburg (West Tennessee Presbytery) where he served as an elder and a member of the chancel choir. He and Mrs. Chandler taught Sunday School and served as table leaders in Youth Club. Charlie […]

Services for Eleanor “Ellie” Scrudder will be March 26th at 2:00pm in Tahlequah, OK. Ellie died on March 26, 2020 just as the pandemic was starting to shut things down and services were delayed. Now a year later, the family hoped to be able to have the service open to all, but since it is […]

Musicians of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra will present Elgar String Serenade as part of the First Horizon Foundation Instrumental Series at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery). The performances will be Thursday, April 8, at 7 p.m. and Friday, April 9, at 7 p.m. at 1505 N Moore Road, Chattanooga. Experience one of […]

Hazel Adean Byars, 100, of Fulton, Kentucky, died Friday, March 12, 2021. She attended Good Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Dukedom (West Tennessee Presbytery).

Mary Kathryn Kirkpatrick is this week’s guest on Cumberland Road Reverend Mary Kathryn Kirkpatrick, minister at the Jefferson Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Jefferson, Texas, shares her calling to ministry and discerning God’s voice throughout her life and envisioning the Church’s worship to be a space where people can be themselves. https://cumberlandroad.transistor.fm/ Reverend Dr. Cory Williams, […]

The Rev. Dr. Mitzi Minor is offering a series of free virtual classes called “Practice Resurrection” on April 11, 18, and 25, as part of the Sunday Morning Seminary program offered through Memphis Theological Seminary. https://memphisseminary.edu/sundayseminary/

Ann Rice, Brazos Presbytery, Texas Synod, Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America, died March 11, 2021. Ann was the wife of the Reverend Joel Rice past CPCA Moderator and mother of the Reverend Dr. Perryn Rice Associate Minister of Lake Highlands Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery) in Dallas, Texas.

Clifton Hays Graham, 88, of Longview, Texas, died March 4, 2021. Clifton was a member and elder at Elmira Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Trinity Presbytery). He served in the Army during the Korean Conflict and worked for 35 years at Texas Eastman.

Frances Gene Monteith, 92, a resident of Brunswick, Tennessee, since 1951 and the matriarch of the Brunswick Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery), died March 3, 2021. Her pastor, the Reverend Tiffany Hall McClung, stated, “She helped raise up a lot of young pastors and has been faithful to her family and church her entire […]