Obituaries

The Reverend Homer Wendell Trotter, 87, of Hazel Green, Alabama, died June 29, 2022. Wendell was an honorably retired member of Columbia Presbytery which he served as Stated Clerk from September 22, 2002 to April 22, 2012. He had previously served as Stated Clerk of Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, and Robert Donnell Presbyteries as well as Stated […]

Paul Edwin Power, 92, of Elkton, Kentucky, died June 21, 2022. He was a dairy farmer. Paul was a member of Elkton Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) where he served as an elder. After Elkton CPC closed, he attended Petrie Memorial United Methodist Church.

Audrey Jean Franklin Goodman 90, of Winona, Texas, died June 22, 2022. She was a member of Elmira Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Trinity Presbytery) of Longview, Texas, where she served as nursery supervisor for many years.

The Reverend James Cannon Barry of Tyler, Texas, died June 14, 2022. James, better known as Jim, was a member of Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery. He had served the denomination as a member of the Missions Ministry Team and was a former pastor of Falling Water Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Hixon, Tennessee. This article is incomplete. More […]

Owen Stephen Kerley, 89, of rural Simpson, Illinois, died June 19, 2022. Steve was a member of the Gilead Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) in Simpson and served on the Gilead Cemetery board.

Robert Thomas Roots, 82, of Campbellsville, Kentucky, died May 6, 2022. Bobby was a lifelong member of Campbellsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) where he served as an elder. He also served the citizens of Taylor County, Kentucky, as a magistrate on the fiscal court for 37 years.

Ilene Pearman Pentecost, 91, of Glencoe, Alabama, died May 18,2022. She was a dedicated and faithful member of Glencoe Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Grace Presbytery), where she taught Sunday school.

Jared Wesley York, 48, of Princeton, Kentucky, better known as Wes, died May 21, 2022. He was the son of the Reverend Danny York (Covenant Presbytery) and Elaine York. Wes was an elder in the Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) and a Sunday school teacher. He was a willing servant of the Lord in […]

Pansy Jane Emerson McIntosh, 85, of Cleveland, Tennessee, died May 26, 2022. She was a longtime, very active member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cleveland (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) where she served in Cumberland Cares program for the less fortunate.

Jack Jeannette, 83, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, died May 28, 2022. He was a very active member of the Bowling Green Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery), where he served as an elder and sang in the choir. His wife, Martha Brown Jeannette, and brother, Howard “Tuffy” Jeannette, were also elders in the Bowling Green Cumberland […]