Obituaries

Kathaleen Joyce Pitts, 97, of Fayetteville, Tennessee, died August 2, 2022. She was a member of the Kelso Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery) where she was an active member of Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry.

Donna Mae McKenzie, 94, of Sidney, Arkansas, died August 3, 2022. She served as a pianist for many years at Sidney Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the United Methodist Church of Sidney.

Charles Louis McCall, 83, of Trimble, Tennessee, died February 2, 2022. He served as lay-pastor for many years before retiring from Kenton Cumberland Presbyterian Church which he served for fifteen years and where his wife, Willa Y. McCall, attends. Born September 15, 1938 in Jackson, Tennessee, to Edgar Floyd McCall and Mary White McCall, Charles […]

David Greene Wiseman, Jr., 97, better known as “D.G.,” of the Harmony community near Winchester in Franklin County, Tennessee, died July 22, 2022. He was a member of the Harmony Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery) for 83 years. He served faithfully as a teacher, a deacon, and, for 41 years, as an elder. D.G. had […]

Kenneth Wayne Jones, 75, of Madisonville, Kentucky, died July 25, 2022. He was a member of the Madisonville Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) where he served as an elder, Sunday school superintendent, Sunday school teacher, youth leader, and choir director.

Rev. Dr. Charles David Smith The Reverend Dr. Charles David Smith, 76, of Louisianan, died July 16, 2022. Chuck was born in Arkansas June 3, 1946, but called Lafayette, Louisiana, his home. He graduated from Lafayette High School in 1964 and spent the next two decades working and raising a family. In the 1960s, he […]

Mary Frances McCoyle Seeger, 100, of Symsonia, Kentucky, died July 1, 2022. Her niece, Lora Rogers Kerner, serves the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination as an elected member of the Ministry Council. Grandniece, the Reverend Leanne Kerner, is Director of Youth and Children’s Ministries at Lake Highlands Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery). Mary Frances was a member […]

Dolores Rustenhaven, 88, of Marshall, Texas, died July 17, 2022. Born February 14, 1934, Dolores was from Overton, Texas. She graduated from Overton High School in 1952. As a clergy spouse to the late Reverend William Rustenhaven, she lived and ministered across the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination. According to Beth O’Gwynn Rustenhaven writing on Facebook, Dolores […]

Timothy John Orr, 56, of Newbern, Tennessee, died July 18, 2022. Tim was a member of Dyersburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) and a former trustee of Memphis Theological Seminary. He was the youngest son of the Reverend Melvin and Naomi Orr. Tim had a long and fruitful relationship with MTS. In the summer […]

Rev. Dr. Autura Eason-Williams, pastor of Capleville United Methodist Church, a Memphis Theological Seminary alumna, and sometimes adjunct faculty member at MTS, was ordered from her vehicle, a Chevrolet Malibu, and shot three times in an apparent carjacking at her home in Whitehaven, a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 18, 2022. The incident was […]