The Reverend Robert Lee Truax, Jr., 76, of Lakeland, Tennessee, reportedly died in early-December 2022. He apparently suffered head trauma from a fall while walking home from the grocery store. A native Memphian, Robert graduated from Central High School in 1964. He, for many years, was a member of, and was granted honorably retired status by, West Tennessee Presbytery in June 2011. He was recently moved to Presbytery for the Mid-South by the Synod of Great Rivers. He had served Morning Sun Cumberland Presbyterian Church (now in Cornerstone Presbytery). In the 1980s, Robert worked for the Cumberland Presbyterian Resource Center (the Cumberland Bookstore) at the Center in Memphis. He had also been an employee of the United States Postal Service.
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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