Roy McIntyre

FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN: ELDER HAMMOND ‘ROY’ MCINTYRE WRITTEN BY ELDER DWAYNE FLETCHER: Elder Roy McIntyre (60) was born Sept. 19, 1934 in Marshall, Virginia, the son of the late Hammond Luck and Meta Pearle Ash McIntyre. The Lord called him from this life on April 3, 1995. Brother Roy grew up in Front Royal and was a veteran of the United States Navy. He married Gracie on Oct. 31, 1959. He joined Happy Creek Primitive Baptist Church on July 25, 1970. Soon after that Brother Roy was liberated to speak and spent the last 25 years of his life in service to the churches in northern Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, most of that time as an ordained Elder. At the time of his passing, he was a member and the very able pastor of Goose Creek Church in Markham, VA. He was a roofing contractor and sheet metal craftsman by trade. Forced to retire by a serious heart attack several years ago, he spent muchof his time visiting the sick and shut-in.