The Reverend David Bayer, 73, pastor of Fulton Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) in South Fulton, Tennessee, died Thursday, April 9, 2020, at Hillview Nursing Home in Dresden, Tennessee. David was born in Chicago, Illinois, to William and Wanita “Nell” Myrick Bayer. He earned a degree in public speaking from Columbia College Chicago, primarily a performing arts institution.

David came to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church from the Baptist Church in 2007. He graduated from Mid-Continent Baptist Bible College, a now defunct institution, once located near Mayfield, Kentucky, and completed his Cumberland Presbyterian studies through the Program of Alternate Studies. He became pastor at Fulton around the same time he came to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

On March3, 2007, West Tennessee Presbytery’s committee on probationer care reported David had come before them and asked for his ordination to be recognized. He had already complete the required PAS courses. He came before the presbytery for examination on the same day. Presbytery being satisfied with the veracity of his call, the Reverend Tony Janner proceeded with the pertinent questions from the Confession of Faith and, after a prayer by the Reverend Kermit Travis, David was received as a member of the presbytery.

As of Elvis Week in 2017, Graceland’s Wedding Chapel in the Woods reported Bayer had performed 1,533 weddings as one of their “chaplains,” a position he held from the inception of weddings at Graceland in 2000.