Communications

As of January 2023, the Lodge, Restaurant, and Conference Center at Montgomery Bell State Park will be closed until further notice due to a flooding issue. An accident with the fire sprinkler system on the ground floor (4th physical floor) caused water damage on it and all lower floors.

Martha Jo Hawkins Moody, 87, of Russellville, Arkansas, died January 7, 2023. She was born to the Joe C. and Clara Mae Underwood Hawkins in Higden, Arkansas, on June 7, 1935. She graduated from West Side High School in Greers Ferry, Arkansas, and Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. Martha was a member of the […]

La Roca de Salvacion (Rock of Salvation) CPC La Roca de Salvacion Cumberland Presbyterian Church meets in the Rocky Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Grace Presbytery) facility in Birmingham, Alabama. The Reverend William Alas is pastor. On Friday December 30, 2022, while the Alas family was out shopping, their house in Calera, Alabama, burned. Within no […]

A.J. Price, 95, of Pottsville, Arkansas, died January 1, 2023. He was born October 18, 1927, in Leslie, Arkansas to Oather and Bernice Roach Price. A.J. served in the US Army during the occupation of Germany and during the Korean Conflict. He was a long-time member of the Mars Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery) […]

Lynn Kelsh, 73, of Mountain Home, Arkansas, died December 31, 2022. Lynn considered Mountain Home Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery) to be her second family.

James Harold Rambo, 90, of Memphis, Tennessee, died December 24, 2022. He was a longtime member and elder of Faith Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cornerstone Presbytery) in Bartlett, Tennessee.

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.

The Albany Empire, a professional indoor football team based in Albany, New York, announced they have signed defensive back/wide receiver Vonte Bates for the 2023 National Arena League season. Bates is a former Bethel University (McKenzie, Tennessee) standout. During Bate’s career at Bethel, he appeared in 30 total games recording 239 total tackles, ninth in […]

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.