THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 9, 1995 TAG: 9504090013
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: TAYLORS, S.C. LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
Rev. James Alexander Herring Sr., 90, of 222 Wood Rd., Taylors, SC, died Friday, April 7, 1995.
Born February 1, 1905, in Honan Provence, Taian, China.
He was a retired Southern Baptist Missionary to China and Tiawan and had served several churches in the Greenville area, among those being Augusta Road Baptist Church, and the First Baptist Church Moultie, GA, and Cullowhee Baptist Church and at one time was interim pastor at George's Creek Baptist Church in Easley.
Surviving are his wife, Nan Stephens Trammell Herring of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Larry (Sarah Alice) Edward of Taylors and Mrs. Greg (Nan Herring) Scott of Corvillis, Oregon; two sons, James A. Herring Jr. of Knoxville, TN, and Gordon Rhea Herring of Virginia Beach, VA; a sister, Mary Herring of Raleigh, NC; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11:00 AM at Lee Road Baptist Church. Burial will be in Springwood Cemetery.
Visitation will be Monday from 7:00 until 8:30 PM at The Mackey Mortuary, Century Dr.
Memorials may be made to the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, P.O. Box 6767, Richmond, VA 23230-0767 or to Hospice of St. Francis Hospital, 414-A Pettigru St., Greenville, SC 29601.
The Mackey Mortuary, Century Dr., Greenville, SC.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB