Obituaries

Patrick Benton White III, 74, of Rogersville, Alabama, died December 3, 2020. He was an elder at Springfield Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery) in Rogersville. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart among other decorations.

Steven Arlie Jahr, 73, of Martin, Tennessee, died December 5, 2020. He was a member of the Martin Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery). His wife, Cathy Goodwin Jahr, clerk of session for Martin CPC, survives.

Donna Kay Nall, 72, of Owensboro, Kentucky, died Friday, December 4, 2020. She served for 25 years as the secretary for Owensboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) where she was also a member.

Harrie H. Cate, 93, of Cleveland, Tennessee, died November 25, 2020. She was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cleveland (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) where she taught Sunday school and had served as director of the Youth Fellowship. She also served the community as a Brownie and Girl Scout troop leader. Harrie was a talented […]

Ivan Dale Byford, 84, of Alabaster, Alabama, died November 12, 2020. Ivan was born in Peoria, Illinois, but moved to Birmingham where he lived until moving to Alabaster in 1992. Ivan and wife Pat had been members of Homewood Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama (Grace Presbytery), but were members of Third Presbyterian Church of […]

Patricia Adeen Haws Parsons, 86, known to most as Pat, died November 13, 2020. She was the wife of Houston, Texas, First Cumberland Presbyterian Church’s pastor emeritus, the Reverend Hugh Leslie Parsons. She is survived by her three daughters including Houston CPC member and elder Lezlie Beth Parsons Daniel. Pat was born in Elida, New […]

Anna Jean Cooper Ordway, 83, of Calvert City, Kentucky, died November 11, 2020. Anna Jean was born November 6, 1937. She graduated from Marion, Kentucky, High School in 1956 and married the Reverend Wendell Ordway. She was a member of Vaughn’s Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) in Calvert City where Wendell is pastor. She […]

Mary L. Clark, 93, of St. Joseph, Missouri, died November 8, 2020. Mary was born in 1926. She was an active member of Harmony Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Missouri Presbytery), just east of St. Joseph, where she served as treasurer.

William R. “Bill” Fly, Jr., 73, of Pegram, Tennessee, died October 28, 2020. Bill was born in Nashville June 19, 1947. He was a long-time member and an elder of West Nashville Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery). He retired from the United States Army after serving for over 37 years during which time he served […]

The Reverend Dr. Robert Tony Janner (West Tennessee Presbytery) died November 5, 2020, of COVID-19. Janner was semi-retired and doing supply preaching in the presbytery. He was about to embark on an interim pastorate for First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in McKenzie, Tennessee, where he previously served as pastor. Denominationally, Tony served on both the Board […]