Communications

Sylvia Jane Ferguson Mummert, 97, died Saturday, January 25, 2020. She was born March 12, 1922. She was a member of Charleston Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) in Cleveland, Tennessee. Read More: http://clevelandbanner.com/stories/sylvia-jane-ferguson-mummert,108116

Anne Elizabeth Davy Kizer, 102, died January 27, 2020. She was a longtime member of Red Bank Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery). She was born September 23, 1917, to Minnie Gray Davy and James Thomas Davy in Goshentown, Tennessee near Hendersonville. She married Arthur Roy “Bulger” Kizer September 6, 1935, at the Beech Cumberland Presbyterian […]

James Russell Yewell, 95, of Bremen, Kentucky, died Tuesday, January 21, 2020. He was born November 5, 1924, in McLean County, Kentucky. He was a member of Sacramento Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery). He was retired from South Central Bell and served in the United States Army during WWII. Read More: https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/mclean_county/james-r-yewell/article_ddf82b59-6c18-59d5-a421-11ed02a3ca27.html

Helene Bartels Morgan died January 10, 2020, in Houston, Texas. She was born on Nov. 9, 1930, on a farm near Taft, Texas. On April 10, 1954, she married Chester Stephen Morgan, Jr. in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1956, they moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was an active member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian […]

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Martin Fowler, 91, United States Army, retired, died December 27, 2019. He was a lifelong member of Cookeville First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery), where he was an ordained elder. He also taught Sunday school and served on the building and grounds committee. Fowler enlisted in the United States Army in 1953. […]

The Reverend Jerald “Jerry” Smith, 74, of Springfield, died Tuesday November 19, 2019. Reverend Smith was born November 22, 1944 in Federicktown, Missouri, to the late Dale and Iona Murray Smith. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force in which he served during the Vietnam War. He was a retired Plant Engineer with […]

Lena Belle Bearden died December 1, 2019. She was the last Inzer family charter member of the Camden Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery). Lena was born October 28, 1934, in Camden, Arkansas, to the late Reverend H.W. and Mary Inzer, also of Camden. The Reverend Inzer was the first pastor of Canden CPC. She was […]

“It’s a sad day for Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery, Women’s Ministy, and our church; one of our great ladies is gone.” -The Reverend Cliff Hudson, Silverdale Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) Patricia Varnell died Monday, January 27, 2020. She was born to William J. and Marguerite McCune in Border, Texas, on January 6, 1932. She was preceded […]

The Reverend James Robertson Miller (Columbia Presbytery), 82, born July 22, 1937, died January 16, 2020. Jim was born July 22, 1937, to John Samuel Miller and Annie Elizabeth in Eutaw, Alabama. and grew up in Winchester, Tennessee. His father died in 1940. He was baptized by the Reverend W.B. Spraker at the Winchester Cumberland […]

Marjorie Pauline Gould, 96, of Aurora, Missouri, died on Tuesday, January 14, 2020. She was the widow of the Reverend Robert Gould (Missouri Presbytery). Marjorie was born August 10, 1923, in Dunnegan, Missouri, the daughter of James Clyde and Hattie Ethel (Paul) Litle. She was raised in Humansville, Missouri, and graduated from Humansville High School. […]