Communications

Thelma Tate, 61, a West Tennessee Presbytery student in the Program of Alternate Studies and founder of Single Women of Christ Ministries, died January 28, 2021, of COVID-19, according to the PAS office. She taught Formation for Ministry at Memphis Theological Seminary. She was born September 26, 1959. Thelma was Family Inn Director for Room […]

Billy Joe Halford, 80, of Memphis, Tennessee, died January 25, 2021, he was an elder at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Olive Branch, Mississippi (West Tennessee Presbytery), where he taught Sunday school.

Clara Spradlin Hegwood, 80, widow of the Reverend Pete Hegwood, died January 26, 2021, in Montevallo, Alabama. She attended Spring Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Grace Presbytery).

Trinity Presbytery Board and Committee meetings, April 22, 2021. Stone Oak Cumberland Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, Texas, at 1:00 PM. Trinity Presbytery, April 23, 2021. Stone Oak Cumberland Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, Texas.

Barbara Heflin, 78, died January 19, 2021, in Oklahoma. She was born September 5, 1942 to Robert Walker Barlow and Gladys (Berry) Barlow in Oklahoma City. Barbara married Robert Aubrey Heflin Jr. on June 8, 1961, and they moved to Crescent, Oklahoma, in 1970. The Heflins have long been active in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. […]

Frank Roberts Long, 89, of Troy, Tennessee, died Tuesday, December 22, 2020. He was a member of Mount Ararat Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) in Union City. He worked as a police officer for the city of Troy and served as chief of police for fifteen years.

Donald Boydston, 83, died December 25, 2020 in Olney, Texas. He was an elder in the Olney Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery). He held a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University and worked for NASA on life support systems during the Apollo Program.

A brief biography by Liz Rapp by Elmina Lane Kirkpatrick   It is likely many individuals were enticed to make the arduous journey to the Willamette Valley in Oregon Territory by glowing reports of those who had already traveled west.  Forty–eight year old Peter Bilyeu (1802-1877), a former resident of Richwood in Miller County, Missouri had been to the Oregon Territory in 1850 and returned to Richwood to share news of the wonders of the Willamette Valley with them.  […]

Betty Worrall Murray of Tullahoma, Tennessee, died January 4, 2021. She served as an elder of Brenthaven Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery) and was active in Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry serving as an officer both at Brenthaven and the Nashville Region.

Sue Ellen Holman Harris, 90, formerly of Dickson, Tennessee, died January 4, 2021, as a result of COVID-19. She was the widow of the Reverend Howard Ray Holman (Nashville Presbytery) who died in 1990. She taught Sunday school classes for children and adults, directed and taught many vacation Bible schools, worked in and led women’s […]