Obituaries

Owen Chambers, 77, of the Shiloh Community in Montgomery County, Tennessee, died October 15, 2021. Owen was born July 27, 1944, to A.J. and Pearl Chambers. He served as an elder at the Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery) for more than 35 years along with teaching adult Sunday School for more than 30 years. […]

The Reverend Oscar Lee Nichols, 93, North Central Presbytery, died October 14, 2021. He was born May 17, 1928, in Trilla, Illinois. At seventeen he felt the call to ministry while at church camp. He attended Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, for two years and was ordained on August 30, 1951 by Foster […]

The Reverend Sammy Kay Romines, 71, died October 14, 2021, as the result of an ATV accident on his farm near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Sam, semi-retired from the ministry in 2019, was a member of Cumberland Presbytery and the long-time pastor of Lewisburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Logan County, Kentucky. When he wasn’t preaching, he […]

The Reverend Paul Gary Green of El Paso, Texas, a member of Presbytery del Cristo, died October 13, 2021. Born around 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Paul was raised in the Catholic Church but became a Methodist in 1985. While a Methodist, he experienced a call to ministry. Paul attended the University of Delaware, the University […]

Tim Lawson, 65, died September 17, 2021, of COVID-19. Born August 30, 1956, in Cleveland, Tennessee, Tim was husband to Tana Sue Lawson, 2003 President of Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry Convention. Tana Sue, Tim, and son Justin were all diagnosed with COVID-19 in early September. Tana Sue had to be ventilated but recovered. Tim was […]

Memphis Theological Seminary reports the Reverend Dr. Clinton Owen Buck, 89, Professor Emeritus, died October 9, 2021, in Memphis, Tennessee. An honorably retired member of West Tennessee Presbytery, Dr. Buck was the long time pastor of Mt. Carmel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Laconia, Tennessee, and had been an integral part of the life of Colonial […]

The Reverend Sharon G. Bowers of San Marcos, Texas, died September 17, 2021. She was diagnosed with leukemia in December 2019. A member of Trinity Presbytery, Sharon was a hospice chaplain in the Austin and New Braunfels, Texas, areas who described herself as a liberal Christian feminist. Sharon graduated from Crestwood High School in Dearborn […]

The Reverend James Kirkland Smith, 86, of Fayetteville, Tennessee, better known as Kirk, died October 6, 2021, of congestive heart failure. He was a member of Columbia Presbytery, where he served on numerous committees, and most recently pastored Kelso Cumberland Presbyterian Church and Champ Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He also served on the board of directors […]

Elisha “E.C.” Columbus Hurley The Reverend Dr. Elisha Columbus Hurley, 74, better known as “E.C.,” of Clarksville, Tennessee, died August 31, 2021. He was a member of Nashville Presbytery. Born February 18, 1947, in Harlan, Kentucky, to the Dexter Hurley and Malva Brown Hurley, E.C. grew up in the Church of God in a coal-mining […]

William “Billy” Donald Little, 89, of Providence, Kentucky, died October 2, 2021. For 48 years Billy was an elder for First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Providence (Cumberland Presbytery).