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FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE BAPTIST OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN:
ELDER JOHN CONLEY
Elder John Claude Conley was born November 21, 1951 in Odessa, Texas, to Ralph and Wanda Eldora Lincoln Conley. He passed from this life on November 25, 2000, in Jackson, Mississippi, after a courageous battle withcancer.
John was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He married the former Debbie Chappell on April 28, 1973. To this union was born two sons, Philip and James and one daughter, Sarah. 45
He was ordained to the ministry by the Primitive Baptist Church in Midland, Texas in July 1978. He had pastored at Salida Church in Salida, California from 1979 until 1991, and at Middleton Creek Church in Meadville, Mississippi from 1991 until his death.
Brother John was a well-loved minister and was respected across the country.
John Conley, Sis. Debbie Conley and children Sis. Sarah, Philip and James. (Philip and James are ordained elders)
“….Elder Pyles (a long time friend of the Conley family) shared some personal experience that he had with Elder Conley: “Some here may think that Bro John’s life was cut short by the plague of cancer. But, from knowing Bro John for 28 years, it is my experience that the Lord greatly lengthened Bro John’s life for the sake of Zion and his family. Many may not know that Bro John suffered greatly at the hands of cancer as a young man many years ago, and most people would not have survived the struggle. However, the Lord delivered Bro John, and the latter part of his life is marked by marriage, fatherhood, ordination, and pastor-ship. Truly, his life is one lengthened and not cut short.” |
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