BLACK MOUNTAIN - Reverend Neal Wyndham, of Black Mountain, N.C., passed away on January 6, 2011. A native of South Carolina, he was born on April 11, 1917 and grew up in the Macedonia community outside Moncks Corner, S.C. near Charleston. The next to youngest child in a family of ten children, he was the first to go to college. He graduated from Atlantic Christian College, now Barton College, in Wilson, N.C., and received his Master of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt University School of Theology.
Rev. Wyndham served many congregations over several states including South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. His last ministry was at First Christian Church, (Disciples of Christ), Black Mountain, N.C. He was instrumental in organizing churches in Jacksonville, N.C. and Columbia, S.C. In Atlanta, Ga. he worked with the Outreach Ministry of the church and established an orphanage. While in Jacksonville, Fla. he was instrumental establishing a senior citizens' home.
After his retirement in 1982, he continued in ministry serving churches in North Carolina and Georgia on an interim basis while these churches searched for a permanent minister. He also served as Chaplain at the Veterans Hospitals in Columbia, S.C. and Asheville, N.C.
Rev. Wyndham was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Sarah Virginia MeLellan Wyndham, of Bowling Green, Ky. and nine brothers and sisters. He had numerous nieces and nephews in the Monks Corner / Charleston, S.C. area, and his wife's nieces and nephews in the Bowling Green, Ky. area.
Rev. Wyndham is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Byron and Judy Wyndham of Cherry Log, Ga., and daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Alice Wyndham and Wilant van Giessen of Asheville, N.C.; two grandchildren, Willem Neal Wyndham of Asheville and Kristina T. Eno of Canton, Ga.; and three great-grandchildren, Jack David Eno, James Rowland Eno, and Kassidy Melissa Eno, of Canton, Ga.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions in his memory be made to the First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Drive, Black Mountain, NC 28711.
Published in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Feb. 16, 2011
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Rev. Wyndham served many congregations over several states including South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. His last ministry was at First Christian Church, (Disciples of Christ), Black Mountain, N.C. He was instrumental in organizing churches in Jacksonville, N.C. and Columbia, S.C. In Atlanta, Ga. he worked with the Outreach Ministry of the church and established an orphanage. While in Jacksonville, Fla. he was instrumental establishing a senior citizens' home.
After his retirement in 1982, he continued in ministry serving churches in North Carolina and Georgia on an interim basis while these churches searched for a permanent minister. He also served as Chaplain at the Veterans Hospitals in Columbia, S.C. and Asheville, N.C.
Rev. Wyndham was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Sarah Virginia MeLellan Wyndham, of Bowling Green, Ky. and nine brothers and sisters. He had numerous nieces and nephews in the Monks Corner / Charleston, S.C. area, and his wife's nieces and nephews in the Bowling Green, Ky. area.
Rev. Wyndham is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Byron and Judy Wyndham of Cherry Log, Ga., and daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Alice Wyndham and Wilant van Giessen of Asheville, N.C.; two grandchildren, Willem Neal Wyndham of Asheville and Kristina T. Eno of Canton, Ga.; and three great-grandchildren, Jack David Eno, James Rowland Eno, and Kassidy Melissa Eno, of Canton, Ga.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions in his memory be made to the First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Drive, Black Mountain, NC 28711.
Published in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Feb. 16, 2011
- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/citizen-times/obituary.aspx?pid=148646931#sthash.CjyDuALj.dpuf
BLACK MOUNTAIN - Reverend Neal Wyndham, of Black Mountain, N.C., passed away on January 6, 2011. A native of South Carolina, he was born on April 11, 1917 and grew up in the Macedonia community outside Moncks Corner, S.C. near Charleston. The next to youngest child in a family of ten children, he was the first to go to college. He graduated from Atlantic Christian College, now Barton College, in Wilson, N.C., and received his Master of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt University School of Theology.
Rev. Wyndham served many congregations over several states including South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. His last ministry was at First Christian Church, (Disciples of Christ), Black Mountain, N.C. He was instrumental in organizing churches in Jacksonville, N.C. and Columbia, S.C. In Atlanta, Ga. he worked with the Outreach Ministry of the church and established an orphanage. While in Jacksonville, Fla. he was instrumental establishing a senior citizens' home.
After his retirement in 1982, he continued in ministry serving churches in North Carolina and Georgia on an interim basis while these churches searched for a permanent minister. He also served as Chaplain at the Veterans Hospitals in Columbia, S.C. and Asheville, N.C.
Rev. Wyndham was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Sarah Virginia MeLellan Wyndham, of Bowling Green, Ky. and nine brothers and sisters. He had numerous nieces and nephews in the Monks Corner / Charleston, S.C. area, and his wife's nieces and nephews in the Bowling Green, Ky. area.
Rev. Wyndham is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Byron and Judy Wyndham of Cherry Log, Ga., and daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Alice Wyndham and Wilant van Giessen of Asheville, N.C.; two grandchildren, Willem Neal Wyndham of Asheville and Kristina T. Eno of Canton, Ga.; and three great-grandchildren, Jack David Eno, James Rowland Eno, and Kassidy Melissa Eno, of Canton, Ga.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions in his memory be made to the First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Drive, Black Mountain, NC 28711.
Published in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Feb. 16, 2011
- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/citizen-times/obituary.aspx?pid=148646931#sthash.CjyDuALj.dpuf
Rev. Wyndham served many congregations over several states including South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. His last ministry was at First Christian Church, (Disciples of Christ), Black Mountain, N.C. He was instrumental in organizing churches in Jacksonville, N.C. and Columbia, S.C. In Atlanta, Ga. he worked with the Outreach Ministry of the church and established an orphanage. While in Jacksonville, Fla. he was instrumental establishing a senior citizens' home.
After his retirement in 1982, he continued in ministry serving churches in North Carolina and Georgia on an interim basis while these churches searched for a permanent minister. He also served as Chaplain at the Veterans Hospitals in Columbia, S.C. and Asheville, N.C.
Rev. Wyndham was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Sarah Virginia MeLellan Wyndham, of Bowling Green, Ky. and nine brothers and sisters. He had numerous nieces and nephews in the Monks Corner / Charleston, S.C. area, and his wife's nieces and nephews in the Bowling Green, Ky. area.
Rev. Wyndham is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Byron and Judy Wyndham of Cherry Log, Ga., and daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Alice Wyndham and Wilant van Giessen of Asheville, N.C.; two grandchildren, Willem Neal Wyndham of Asheville and Kristina T. Eno of Canton, Ga.; and three great-grandchildren, Jack David Eno, James Rowland Eno, and Kassidy Melissa Eno, of Canton, Ga.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions in his memory be made to the First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Drive, Black Mountain, NC 28711.
Published in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Feb. 16, 2011
- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/citizen-times/obituary.aspx?pid=148646931#sthash.CjyDuALj.dpuf
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