Cobb County  Georgia Obits  Rev. James Roy England

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AUGUST 25, 1992 JAMES R. ENGLAND SR., 66, MINISTER
     The Rev. James Roy England, 66, of Kennesaw, died Tuesday.
     Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Corner Baptist Church with the Revs. 
J.T. Hollingshed and Charles Callihan officiating. The body will be at the 
church at noon. Burial will be in Mars Hill Cemetery in Acworth.
     A native and lifelong resident of Cobb County, the Rev. England was a 
supervisor in the electrical engineering department at Lockheed-Georgia Co. 
until his retirement in 1981 after 35 years' service. A World War II Navy 
veteran, he was pastor of Corner Baptist Church in Powder Springs and 
Formerly pastored Hickory Grove and New Hope Baptist Churches in Acworth, 
Greers Chapel Baptist Church in Marietta, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in 
Kennesaw, and Corinth Baptist Church in Bremen.
     The Rev. England was a member of Kennestone Hospital Volunteer Chaplin 
Associatioon and was named Chaplin of the Year in 1988. He was a 32nd-degree 
Mason and belonged to Acworth Lodge No, 176,F.&A.M., Acworth Chapter No. 40 
Royal Arch Masons, Acworth Chapter 455 OES where he had been the Past Worth 
Patron and Past District Grand Deputy. He was a 33rd-degree Shriner and 
member of Yaarab Shrine Temple in Atlanta.
     Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Wofford England; son, Jimmy England 
of Marietta; two daughter, Ann England and Mary Frances Sumner of Destin, 
Fla.; brother, Elgin England of Kennesaw; 10 grandchildren and seven 
great-grandchildren.
     Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
(Greers Chapel Baptist Church is in Kennesaw and not in Marietta as stated in 
obit)


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