Obituaries

Lawrence “Larry” Louder, 73, died February 4, 2021 of COVID-19. Larry was a 1969 graduate of Bethel College (now Bethel University). He was president of Phi Delta Sigma 1968-1969. Larry, well know in the Bethel College community and in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was the older brother of the Reverend Steve Louder and nephew of […]

Bettye Jean Loggins McCaffrey Ellis, 91, of Dyer, Tennessee, died February 2, 2021. Bettye, a member of the Dyer Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery), was the 4th great niece of Rev. Samuel McAdow, one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She served the Dyer congregation in many ways including Sunday school teacher, […]

The Reverand Fhanor Pejendino (Cauca Valley Presbytery), a Cumberland Presbyterian pastor and missionary to Guatemala, died February 2, 2021, after a struggle with COVID-19. Fhanor and his wife, Socorro, are a Colombian Cumberland Presbyterian clergy couple working as missionaries. While visiting their home in Colombia over the Christmas holiday they both contracted COVID-19. Socorro recovered, […]

The Reverend Doctor Luciano Jaramillo, 86, founding pastor of El Camino Cumberland Presbyterian Church in West Miami Beach, Florida (Grace Presbytery), died February 1, 2021. Luciano was well known and highly regarded for having led the team effort by the International Bible Society to develop the Nueva Version Internacional (NVI), a Spanish Language Protestant Bible […]

Thelma Tate, 61, a West Tennessee Presbytery student in the Program of Alternate Studies and founder of Single Women of Christ Ministries, died January 28, 2021, of COVID-19, according to the PAS office. She taught Formation for Ministry at Memphis Theological Seminary. She was born September 26, 1959. Thelma was Family Inn Director for Room […]

Billy Joe Halford, 80, of Memphis, Tennessee, died January 25, 2021, he was an elder at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Olive Branch, Mississippi (West Tennessee Presbytery), where he taught Sunday school.

Clara Spradlin Hegwood, 80, widow of the Reverend Pete Hegwood, died January 26, 2021, in Montevallo, Alabama. She attended Spring Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Grace Presbytery).

Barbara Heflin, 78, died January 19, 2021, in Oklahoma. She was born September 5, 1942 to Robert Walker Barlow and Gladys (Berry) Barlow in Oklahoma City. Barbara married Robert Aubrey Heflin Jr. on June 8, 1961, and they moved to Crescent, Oklahoma, in 1970. The Heflins have long been active in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. […]

Frank Roberts Long, 89, of Troy, Tennessee, died Tuesday, December 22, 2020. He was a member of Mount Ararat Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) in Union City. He worked as a police officer for the city of Troy and served as chief of police for fifteen years.

Donald Boydston, 83, died December 25, 2020 in Olney, Texas. He was an elder in the Olney Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery). He held a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University and worked for NASA on life support systems during the Apollo Program.