Obituaries:  Rev. Thomas Newton Clinkscales, Sabine Parish       C-452
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 3, 1983
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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The Reverend Thomas Newton Clinkscales

  Services for the Rev. Thomas Newton Clinkscales, 71, of Florien,
were held at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, October 30, at the Florien First
Baptist Church. The Rev. Mack Brister, the Rev. J. P. Stockman,
and the Rev. Harvey Headrick officiated. Burial was at Florien
Cemetery. Plans were under the direction of Warren Meadows
Funeral Home in Many, La.

  The Rev. Clinkscales died at 12:55 a.m., Saturday, October 29,
1983, at the Sabine Medical Center in Many, after a long illness.

  He started his missionary work as an associational missionary in
Montague County, Texas, 1937-1941, and served 27 years, 1941-1968
in Brazil as a missionary of Foreign Mission Board, and the
Southern Baptist Convention, under the Home Mission Board in the
New England area. He served among the Portuguese culture from
1968 to 1981.

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rosalie Clinkscales of Florien;
three sons, James Floyd Clinkscales of Homestead, Fla., Louis
Thomas Clinkscales of Florien, and Dale Nelson Clinkscales of
Tiverton, R. I.; three daughters, Priscilla Ann Costa of
Tiverton, R. I., Mary Alice Clinkscales of Florien, and Tina
McCormic of Many, La.; four brothers, John Clinkscales of
Talladego, Ala., Clarence Clinkscales of Auburn, Ala., Milton
Clinkscales of Milton, Ala., and Louis Clinkscales of Vincent,
Ala.; three sisters, Mrs. Lola Bryant of Goodwater, Ala., Mrs.
Kate Justice of Vincent, Ala., and Mrs. Mildred Galbraith of
Espanola, N. M.; nine grandchildren; and a host of nieces and
nephews.