Obituaries:  Rev. R. C. Ayers, Sabine Parish       A-620
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 10, 1989
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Rev. R. C. Ayers

  Services for Rev. R. C. Ayers, 82, were held at 4 p.m., Tuesday,
April 18, 1989, at Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel. Officiating was
the Rev. Cecil Janway, Superintendent of Louisiana District of
the Assemblies of God Church, assisted by the Rev. J. M. Cason,
pastor emeritus of Glad Tidings Assembly of God. Burial was at
Forest Park West Cemetery.

  Rev. Ayers died Sunday, April 16, 1989, at 5:40 p.m., at
Schumpert Medical Center, following a lengthy illness. He was
born in Many, La., and had been a resident of Shreveport since
1950. Rev. Ayers was a retired Assembly of God Minister. He began
his ministry in 1925, and was ordained in 1933. He was a
sectional Presbyter for 19 years, and pioneered thirteen new
churches in Louisiana.

  He is survived by two sons, Pete Ayers of Shreveport, and Joe
Ayers of Texarkana, Texas; one foster son, Jesse Carrigan of
Tampa, Fla.; three daughters, Vermor Burge, Jewell Fogger, and
Pat Arnold, all of Shreveport; one brother, C. E. Ayers of Many;
14 grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren.

  Pallbearers and Honorary pallbearers were the ministers of the
Louisiana District of the Assembly of God Churches.