Peggy Ambrester Gouge, 89, of Powell, Tennessee, died November 19, 2021. She was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge (Presbytery of East Tennessee). She participated in the activities of church life and taught Sunday school for many years. She was a subscriber to the Cumberland Presbyterian magazine. We were informed June […]

Gordon Lee Kellett, 86, of Rome, Georgia, and a former resident of Rockmart, Georgia, died June 3, 2023. He was a deacon in the United Methodist Church, he loved gospel quartet music, and he was exceedingly proud of his daughter, the Reverend Lee Hollingshed, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister of Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery.

The Reverend Emme Cheyanne Davis was ordained by a commission of Red River Presbytery June 4, 2023, and installed at Pathway Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Burleson, Texas.

Verna Allaby MacKenzie, 98, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, died May 23, 2023. Verna served as choir director and organist for Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) in Kentucky from 1980 to 1997 while also giving voice, piano, and organ lessons.

John Wright, a candidate for ministry in Murfreesboro Presbytery who was serving the Hillsboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church, has died according to a June 6, 2023, press release from the presbytery. More information will be added as it becomes available.

Brenda Joyce Davis LeCroix, 79, of Anderson, Alabama, died May 29, 2023. She was a member of Rogersville First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery). Among her three siblings was the Reverend Dr. Susan Parker of Hope Presbytery.

Sara Glenn Jones Bradley, 99, of Union City, Tennessee, died May 29, 2023. She was a member of Union City Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cornerstone Presbytery) where she attended Snider Sunday school class, served as an elder, and was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry.

Skip Kiepe, 88, of Memphis, Tennessee, died May 28, 2023. He was one of the oldest members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Germantown (Presbytery for the Mid-South). Skip was a US Navy veteran having served on the repair vessel USS Briareus and the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain.

Mary Frances Hon, 81, of Olathe, Kansas, died May 21, 2023. She was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Warrensburg, Missouri (Missouri Presbytery), where she served as a Sunday school teacher.

On December 10, 2021, an EF-3 tornado caused so much damage to the Dresden Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery for the Mid-South) in Dresden, Tennessee, that the structure had to be demolished. Nashville’s WSMV television recently covered the church’s struggle to rebuild and to obtain FEMA funds. https://www.wsmv.com/2023/05/18/faith-vs-fema-churches-destroyed-by-tornados-denied-femas-help-their-hour-need/ https://www.wsmv.com/2023/06/03/fema-responds-wsmv4-investigation-revealing-churches-denied-disaster-aid-over-paperwork-problems/