Obituaries

Born January 2, 1901, in the Bells Chapel community in Gibson County, Tennessee, Claude White joined the US Navy in September 1920. On December 7, 1941, he was chief water tender on the battleship USS Oklahoma which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when air forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked. Chief […]

Joyce Bray Mynatt, 89, of Mount Pleasant, Arkansas, died April 1, 2022. She was a lifelong member of the Barren Fork Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery) where she loved to sing and to volunteer for anything needed in the church.

Joe Ronald O’Dell, 80, of Greeneville, Tennessee, died March 18, 2022. He was an active member of Greeneville Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee), serving as an elder and teaching Sunday school.

Roland David Morris, 74, of Fairfield, Illinois, died March 20, 2022. He was a lifelong member of the Fairfield Cumberland Presbyterian Church (North Central Presbytery), where he served as a Sunday school teacher, elder, morning worship guitarist, video and sound technician, and leader of Crusaders children’s program. He also helped with children’s musicals. The Reverend […]

Billy Don Haney, 87, of Cleveland, Tennessee, died March 9, 2022. He was a member of Charleston Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) where he served as an elder for more than 30 years.

Dinah Ruth Dodd McInturff, 80, died in Johnson City, Tennessee, March 15, 2022. She was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Greeneville, Tennessee (Presbytery of East Tennessee), where she sang in the choir, led the children’s choir, and taught children’s Sunday School. She provided a sourdough bread ministry to the ill and bereaved […]

Jessie Lois Justice Hines, 90, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, died March 10, 2022. A long-time member of the Mt. Olivet Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery), she was active in women’s groups, taught Sunday School and VBS, and enjoyed church wide fellowships.

The Reverend Aubrey Thomas Gillis, 59, better known as Tom, of Alabaster, Alabama, died March 13, 2022, after a struggle with pancreatic cancer. Tom was a member without charge of Robert Donnell Presbytery and had been associate pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Alabaster. This article is incomplete. More information will be added as […]

Clara Marie Catron Kihl, 95, of Owensboro, Kentucky, died March 7, 2022. She was an active member of the Owensboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) and a former president of the Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry.

Patsy Dianne Vandiver, 73, of Lexington, Alabama, stated clerk of Hope Presbytery, reportedly died March 8, 2022, of COVID-19. Diane was a nurse. Much of her career was spent as the head nursing administrator at Cooper Green Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. She served at Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham as an advisor to the […]