Rev. U. F. BURROUGHS

BURROUGHS, QUINTON, PARKER, AUIL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/30/2012 at 20:40:56

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 18, 1953

A Good-Will Community Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Ringgold County

Rev. Burroughs To Be Honored By the Church
Will Retire From Active Ministry, Served 50 years

The Rev. U. F. BURROUGHS, who is retiring from active ministry after fifty years of service, will be honored Sunday by members of the First Baptist church in Mount Ayr.

During the morning worship service, the guest speaker will be the Rev. M. Parker BURROUGHS of Morgantown, W. Va., who will be assisted by Chaplain PARKER and the Rev. E. QUINTON. A basket dinner will be enjoyed at the noon hour.

An anniversary service, of which the public is invited, will be held in the church auditorium in the afternoon at two o'clock.

The Rev. Mr. BURROUGHS, who will be 71 years of age, has served as the pastor of the Mount Ayr church for six years and three months. He attended William Jewell College at Liberty, MO. and graduated in 1913 from Central Seminary in Kansas City, Kan.

Previous pastorates held by Rev. Mr. BURROUGHS were at Valley Memorial church in Kansas City, Mo., Bedford Finley Avenue church at Ottawa, Central City, Jefferson, and Fredericksburg. He also taught in and served as fieldman at Central Seminary.

The Rev. and Mrs. BURROUGHS expect to move within the next few weeks to Ottumwa, where they will make their home and where he will contiue to serve the ministry as pastor-at-large.

They are the parents of two children -- a daughter, Mrs. AUIL, who resides in Borger, Tennessee, and a son, the Rev. M. Parker BURROUGHS, of Morgantown, W. Va., who serves as student state secretary of West Virginia.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012