Obituaries

Juan David Aros, 50, of Chicago, Illinois, died March 8, 2022, after a long battle with cancer. Juan David was the son of the Reverend Jeremias Aros (North Central Presbytery) and Esther Gonzalez. He worked for Castle Metals.

Charles Dean Akridge, 89, a lifelong resident of Fredonia, Kentucky, died March 4, 2022. He professed his faith in the early 1940s at the Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) and served as Sunday school superintendent there for more than 30 years.

Howard Shelton, 87, of Nashville, Tennessee, best known as Hank, died March 3, 2022. Hank worked for the US Postal Service for 36 years. He preached as a lay minister for the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for more than fifteen years. He loved preaching the word and bringing the lost to Christ. This article is incomplete. […]

Mildred Carmack, 87, of Winchester, Tennessee, died Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. She was a member of the Winchester Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery) where she served as church organist for many years.

Bryan Belue, 52, of Rogersville, Alabama, died March 3, 2022. He was a member and Elder of Hurricane Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery) in Rogersville.

Leonard D. Denney, 88, of Chico, Texas, died February 23, 2022, in Fort Worth, Texas. He was an elder at Zion Valley Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery) in Chico. Leonard was born April 27, 1933, to Hurston P. Denney and Ruth M. Redwine Denney. He served as a corporal in the US Army in […]

Clifford Spencer Odell, Sr., 83, of Vance, Alabama, clerk of the session of Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Grace Presbytery) in Vance, reportedly died in February 2022.

Mary Jo Breeding Hitchcock, 94, died February 26, 2022 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was born in Cookeville, Tennessee, in 1928 to Hop Lee Breeding and Rosa Bullock Breeding, a Cumberland Presbyterian family. The family attended Mt. Hermon Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cookeville (Murfreesboro Presbytery), then when Jo and husband Armon moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, (now […]

Jerry Franklin Hicks, 74, of Benton, Kentucky, died February 25, 2022, in Paducah, Kentucky. An electrician, Jerry was a civilian employee at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. He was very active in the community in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, before retiring to Marshall County, Kentucky (Land Between the Lakes). Jerry was an elder in the Hopkinsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church […]

Aline Mary Spencer, 89, of Winchester, Tennessee, died February 18, 2022, in Winchester. Aline was a member of the Winchester Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery) where she was a member of the Joy Club. She previously taught Sunday school at the Harmony Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery) in Winchester.