Obituaries

Joy Grayson West, 84, of Powell. Tennessee, died December 22, 2022, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She was lifelong member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and was very active in the Knoxville First Cumberland Presbyterian and the Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Churches (Presbytery of East Tennessee). She spent most of her adult life at the […]

Jean Baker, 86, of Longview, Texas, died December 26, 2022. She was a member of Elmira Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Trinity Presbytery) in Longview where she taught Sunday school. She also taught Sunday school for many years at St. John’s Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

George G. Galey, 90, of Germantown, Tennessee, died December 19, 2022. George was a deacon in the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Olive Branch, Mississippi (Cornerstone Presbytery) where his wife, Sue Ann, is also a member.

June Prentiss Johnson, 95, of Longview, Texas, died December 23, 2022. She was born into a Cumberland Presbyterian family in a small farmhouse near Bertram, Texas on December 4, 1927, graduated from Bertram High School in 1945, and from Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas, (now Texas Woman’s University) in 1951. After a […]

The Reverend Dr. Robert Dwayne Tyus, 74, died December 26, 2022. He was born in Baldwin, Mississippi, to Robert George Tyus and Mildred Lindsey Tyus on August 6, 1948. Although his background was Baptist, Dwayne said, “I am a Cumberland Presbyterian by choice.” He began his higher education at Mississippi State in 1968, but eventually […]

Kathleen Joyce Moody Hixson, 88, of Hixson, Tennessee, died December 20, 2022. She was very active in Red Bank Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery).

The Reverend Robert Lee Truax, Jr., 76, of Lakeland, Tennessee, reportedly died in early-December 2022. He apparently suffered head trauma from a fall while walking home from the grocery store. A native Memphian, Robert graduated from Central High School in 1964. He, for many years, was a member of, and was granted honorably retired status […]

William David Money, Sr., 79, of Winchester, Tennessee, died December 9, 2022. He was a life-long member of Goshen Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery), having been born into the church as had many generations of his ancestors before him.

Charles Calvin Riedel, 87, of Dover, Arkansas, died December 10, 2022. Calvin was a member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Russellville (Arkansas Presbytery) where he served as a deacon and treasurer for more than 20 years. Calvin and wife, Linda, were fixtures at the church. He served as superintendent of the North New […]

Cole David Coffman, 27, died August 29, 2022, in Columbia, Missouri. He was a member of White Oak Pond Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Missouri Presbytery) in Lebanon, Missouri. Cole served in the United States Army until his medical retirement due to an IED explosion in Kuwait.