Obituaries

Charles Edward Sturgeon Jr., 81, of Palm City, Florida, died December 7, 2020. He was a member of the Owensboro, Kentucky, Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery). Known to some variously as Sonny or just Sturg, he was born April 20, 1939, in Owensboro and educated in the public schools there. He competed in football, track, […]

Elmer “Dean” Hudson, Sr., 89, of Calico Rock, Arkansas, died Friday, December 18, 2020. He was a member and elder at Calico Rock Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery). He was born June 06, 1931, in Calico Rock and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was the principal of the Mountain Home […]

John Gordon Skeen, Jr., 79, of Lebanon, Tennessee, died December 12, 2020. He was a member of Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery) where he had served as a deacon, elder, and taught Sunday school for many years.

Alice Joan Mason Wilson, 75, of Dickson, Tennessee, died December 8, 2020. She was born August 26, 1945, in Nashville, Tennessee, and was a life-long Cumberland Presbyterian. She belonged to the Dickson Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery). She taught Sunday school, helped with vacation Bible school, belonged to the Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry, and always […]

Vivian Ann Fessenbeck, 84, formerly of Martinsville, Illinois, died December 13, 2020. She was a devoted member of the Willow Creek Presbyterian Church (North Central Presbytery) near Martinsville where she taught Sunday School for many years and was involved with many church activities including church camp held at Merom, Indiana, often as director. Vivian was […]

John Turnham, an elder at Brush Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery) in Nashville, Tennessee, died of COVID-19 around December 13.2020. This article is incomplete. More information will be added as it is available.

Leonard Mitchell Tyree, 87, of Lebanon, Tennessee, died December 9, 2020. He as a deacon of Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery). Leonard was a former Lebanon councilman and had served the city as vice-mayor. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War as a staff sergeant with Strategic Air Command. Leonard […]

Harold Thomas Anderson, 74, of Paducah, Kentucky, and known to most as “H.T.” or Andy, died December 3, 2020. He was a member of Woodlawn Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Paducah (Covenant Presbytery) and was buried at Mt. Vernon Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Leitchfield, Kentucky (Cumberland Presbytery). He was known as a gospel singer and was […]

Peggy Steed Knight, 90, died December 3, 2020. She was a member of Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Clarksville, Tennessee (Nashville Presbytery). Her husband, D.T. “Boots” Knight, was also a committed Cumberland Presbyterian. Peggy was born December 18, 1929, in Houston County, Tennessee. She spent most of her adult life as an educator in Houston […]

Carlton J. Bowden, 90, of Russellville, Arkansas, an elder at Mt. Carmel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery) who was quite active at the presbyterial and denominational levels died December 7, 2020. The son of Finis and Naomi Mullins Bowden, Carlton was born February 6, 1930, in Gumlog, Arkansas. Carlton graduated in 1948 from Dover, Arkansas, […]