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Ruth W. Gough, 95, of Owensboro, Kentucky, mother of the Reverend Ernest Eugene Gough (Nashville Presbytery), died January 18, 2021. She was a member of Mount Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) in Philpot, Kentucky.

June Smith, the widow of the Reverend Albert Smith, mother of the Reverend James A. Smith (Nashville Presbytery), and mother of Janiece Fleming, died January 23, 2021. This article is incomplete. More information will be added as it becomes available.

Barbara Ruth Lynch Frost, 85, of Franklin, Tennessee, died January 12, 2021, of COVID-19. She was a lifelong member of Franklin Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery) where she sang joyfully in the choir and prepared the church bulletins for many years. For 25 years she assisted in the production, with her husband Don, of the […]

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”  (I John 3:18).  Appropriate words for this week in the United States as we observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and we watched a peaceful transition of power during the U.S. Presidential inauguration ceremony.  In the third chapter of 1 John the […]

The Reverend Bobby J. Hancock, 86, known both Bobby Jo and B.J., pastor emeritus of Cowan Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery), died January 20, 2021. Bobby Jo married Charlie Ross McCain December 26, 1955, and together they had five children from 1957 through 1967. Bobby Jo was born in Alcorn County, Mississippi, March 3, 1934, […]

Eva Lucille Summers, 84, formerly of West Plains, Missouri, Died January 17, 2021. She was an elder at Elk Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church in West Plains (Missouri Presbytery). She was born May 14, 1936, in Nettleton, Arkansas.

Over the past several days Fhanor remained on a ventilator, but stable. Today Socorro, his wife, reports his condition has deteriorated. The doctors are running tests trying to find solutions. Socorro and their adult children are concerned and saddened that Fhanor is not progressing as we had all hoped. Please join Ministry Council staff in […]

Leland Keith Wood, 85, of Wimberley, Texas, died January 4, 2021. Although he was an active member of the Chapel in the Hills in Wimberley at the time of his death, Leland was raised in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. As an elder, he was a founding member of the Saint Andrews Cumberland Presbyterian Church in […]

Ben Thomas Surber, 84, of McKenzie, Tennessee, died January 6, 2020. He was an elder at McKenzie First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) where he had been a member for 75 years. Ben ran his family’s considerable farming interests. He served as a commissioner of Carroll County for 44 years. He was born in […]

The Reverend James A. Ryan, Jr., 69, of Mabelvale, Arkansas, died January 6, 2021, of COVID-19. Ryan, known to most as Jack, was pastor of Crossroads Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery). A chaplain, he retired a colonel from the U.S. Army in 2011 after 30 years and two months of service. His father, who survives, […]