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.

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.

Irlba Mae Fisher, 94, of Parsons, Tennessee, died May 19, 2023. She was a charter member of the Parsons First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cornerstone Presbytery) in Parsons, Tennessee.

William Lee Barron, 88, of Columbia, Tennessee, died April 15, 2023. He was better known as Jack. He graduated from Parsons High School and attended Bethel College in McKenzie, Tennessee, where he presumably met Martha Fern Hickman, the fellow graduate who became his wife. Jack earned a master’s degree in education from Middle Tennessee State […]