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Cecil Eugene McFarland |
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Cecil Eugene McFarland died on April 19, 2012
in Richmond, Virginia, at the age of 81. He was
born on August 7, 1930 in McClure, Virginia. He
grew up in Grundy, Virginia and graduated from
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was a United Methodist minister and served as
a pastor in Virginia and Tennessee for five years.
He also served as a Navy Chaplain for nine years.
His duties included destroyer squadron Chaplain,
Senior Chaplain on the U.S.S. Intrepid, Senior
Chaplain at the Naval Station, San Francisco,
and a year in Vietnam with the First Marine Division,
where he was awarded the Bronze Star. He resigned
his commission as a Commander in the Navy Chaplain
Corps in 1969 and joined the Goodwill Industries
International program. From 1970-86 he was the
Executive Director of Goodwill Industries in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma; Greenville, South Carolina; |
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Virginia and Birmingham, Alabama. He was on the Corporate
Staff of Goodwill Industries in the Washington, D.C.
area from 1986-95. He became the Executive Director,
later President, of Chaplain Service Prison Ministry
of Virginia, Inc. in 1995 and was in that position for
17 years. |
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was a graduate of Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens,
Tennessee, from which he received the Distinguished
Alumnus Award in 2010; Emory and Henry College, Emory,
Virginia, from which he received the William and Martha
Defriece Award in 1979; and Candler School of Theology,
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, from which he received
the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2009. He spent one
year of postgraduate study at Harvard Divinity School,
Boston, Massachusetts. He was also inducted into the
Goodwill Industries Hall of Fame in 1998. He was honored
by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International with
the Paul Harris Fellow Award in 2012. In 2008 he was
honored by the Virginia General Assembly with a resolution
commending him for his service to Chaplain Service and
the Department of Corrections. |
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is survived by his wife of 58 years, Mary Riddle Roller
McFarland; two children: Bob McFarland of Richmond and
Ann Collins and her husband Mark of Spartanburg, South
Carolina; two granddaughters and their spouses: Kimberly
Coggins and her husband Justin, and Katie Bridges and
her husband Madison. He is also survived by two brothers,
Horace McFarland and Gerald McFarland, and by a half-brother,
Robert Looney, and by their spouses. |
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will be a Memorial Service on Saturday,
April 28, 2012, at Chamberlayne Heights
United Methodist Church, Richmond, Virginia
at 3:00 p.m., followed by a reception
in the church fellowship hall. A Graveside Service
and interment of ashes will be held at Emory
Cemetery, Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia
on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at 3:00
p.m. |
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In lieu of flowers the family requests that
contributions be made to Chaplain
Service Prison Ministry of Virginia, 2317 Westwood Avenue,
Room 103-A, Richmond, VA 23230, or
through this web site |
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