Obituaries

Carthel Melford “Charlie” Chandler, 94, of Dyersburg, Tennessee, died March 12, 2021. He was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Dyersburg (West Tennessee Presbytery) where he served as an elder and a member of the chancel choir. He and Mrs. Chandler taught Sunday School and served as table leaders in Youth Club. Charlie […]

Services for Eleanor “Ellie” Scrudder will be March 26th at 2:00pm in Tahlequah, OK. Ellie died on March 26, 2020 just as the pandemic was starting to shut things down and services were delayed. Now a year later, the family hoped to be able to have the service open to all, but since it is […]

Hazel Adean Byars, 100, of Fulton, Kentucky, died Friday, March 12, 2021. She attended Good Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Dukedom (West Tennessee Presbytery).

Ann Rice, Brazos Presbytery, Texas Synod, Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America, died March 11, 2021. Ann was the wife of the Reverend Joel Rice past CPCA Moderator and mother of the Reverend Dr. Perryn Rice Associate Minister of Lake Highlands Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery) in Dallas, Texas.

Clifton Hays Graham, 88, of Longview, Texas, died March 4, 2021. Clifton was a member and elder at Elmira Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Trinity Presbytery). He served in the Army during the Korean Conflict and worked for 35 years at Texas Eastman.

Frances Gene Monteith, 92, a resident of Brunswick, Tennessee, since 1951 and the matriarch of the Brunswick Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery), died March 3, 2021. Her pastor, the Reverend Tiffany Hall McClung, stated, “She helped raise up a lot of young pastors and has been faithful to her family and church her entire […]

The Reverend Brian Clinton Gary (Cumberland Presbytery), 76, died February 27, 2021, in Radcliff, Kentucky. Brian was born in Hampton, Virginia, December 20, 1944, to Ryland Clinton Gary and wife Viola Kathleen Earheart. Brian was educated in the public schools of Hampton and graduated from Kecoughtan High School in 1963 before attending Northwestern State University […]

Gary C. Garland, 73, of Tusculum, Tennessee, died February 22, 2021. Gary was an elder at Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee). A graduate of Johnson County High School, Gary served three tours of duty in Vietnam before joining the Tennessee Highway Patrol and being stationed in Greene County. He retired in 2002.

David Wayne Wiman, Jr., 76, of Harrisburg, Illinois, died February 24, 2021. He was born into a prominent Cumberland Presbyterian family June 22, 1944, in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of the Reverend Dr. Wayne Wiman, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, and Helen (Bright) Wiman. David attended Bethel College (now Bethel University) from 1962 to […]

Jefferson Davis Morelock, III, 74, was a member and elder of Cleveland First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) in Cleveland, Tennessee. Jeff died February 13, 2021.