Patsy Dianne Vandiver, 73, of Lexington, Alabama, stated clerk of Hope Presbytery, reportedly died March 8, 2022, of COVID-19. Diane was a nurse. Much of her career was spent as the head nursing administrator at Cooper Green Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. She served at Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham as an advisor to the nursing program. She was a community leader in the Southside Community in Birmingham. She helped start and run the Southside Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit which helped rebuild dilapidated homes in the community and placed families in them. She was a member of Nebo Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery) in Lexington.
About Matthew Gore
Matthew H. Gore is a British journalist, historian, popular culturist, archivist, and educator residing in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the immediate past-president of the Society of Tennessee Archivists and is best known for his book The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988 (2000). He has also published on a variety of topics as diverse as The Origin of Marvelman (a British superhero of the 1950s and 1960s), the relative scarcity of East German philatelics, and the biography of British pulp artist, Denis McLoughlin. He is employed by the Ministry Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at the Cumberland Presbyterian Center in Memphis, Tennessee, as editor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Magazine and as publications manager. He has been associated with both Western Kentucky University, which honored him with their James H. Poteet Award, and the University of Kentucky. He also serves as editor for all Boardman Books (Memphis, Tennessee) publications.
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