ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, April 10, 1996 TAG: 9604100035
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
William Otis McClung, 76, who served Baptist churches in four states during his career in the ministry, died Sunday in the North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C.
McClung stayed busy after his 1981 retirement: he led eight revivals and served as an interim pastor of 11 churches, most recently Angels Rest Baptist Church in Pearisburg. He lived in Pulaski.
For the past 15 months, he had also been minister of visitation at the First United Methodist Church of Pulaski, visiting and helping to care for its 110 members who are elderly or shut-ins.
"He just did a super job for those people," said the Rev. Norman Wilhoit, pastor at First United Methodist Church. "He was small in stature, but a giant in the faith."
McClung earned a Ph.D. in theology in 1954 from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. He served as pastor for churches in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Virginia. His Virginia pastorates included Oak Grove Baptist Church, Richmond; Farmville Baptist Church; Marion Baptist Church and Randolph Memorial Baptist Church in Madison Heights.
Survivors include his wife, Jane Golden McClung; a son, Ronald G. McClung, Bridgewater, N.J.; and four daughters, Patricia Mills, Thomasville, Ga.; Charlotte Holmes, Raleigh, N.C.; Jane Lookabill, Draper; and Melody McGlothlin, Pulaski.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the First United Methodist Church, Pulaski, with burial in Highland Memorial Gardens, Dublin. Stevens Funeral Home Inc. is handling arrangements.
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