Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Thomas Ivey, 63, Buried in Raleigh May 17, 1923

Methodist Editor to Be Buried Today. . . Remains of Dr. T.N. Ivey to Raleigh This Morning for Interment

By the Associated Press

Nashville, Tenn., May 16—The funeral of Dr. Thomas N. Ivey, editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate, the organ of the Southern Methodist church, who died suddenly last yesterday at the Richland golf and country club, following a heart stroke suffered out of the course, will be held at McKendree church late this afternoon with Bishop E.D. Mouseon officiating, and the body will be taken tonight to Raleigh, N.C., for interment.

Dr. Ivey was a native of Marion, S.C., and was in his 63rd year. For the past 13 years he had been editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate and the Raleigh Christian Advocate. He was a graduate of Trinity college, and a member of the board of trustees of that institution. He entered the ministry of the Southern Methodist church in 1888, and held pastorates in North Carolina before taking up editorial work.

Dr. Ivey was vice president for Southern Methodist in the Federal Council of Churches, was twice a delegate to the ecumenical conference of world Methodism, was a member of the commission on unification of Methodism and also a member of the various boards of his church.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Thursday, May 17, 1923

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