On Saturday morning, February 12, Rev. Hugh L. Goodpasture, of Cookeville, Tennessee, passed to his reward. Going out of the house to get in his car to look after his many duties as an outstanding citizen of his section, Brother Goodpasture felt a heart attack coming on and managed to get back into his house only to pass away a few minutes later.

Hugh Goodpasture was a most active, a most progressive man. He believed in doing things and in helping other people to do things. He had a broad vision of what could be done to make the future better than the present and worked eternally at it. This vision and this love for people made him take into consideration the lives of the entire citizenship of the section where he lived. In his many phases of interest in the future, he gave much time to young people and was most enthusiastic about them as they walked into the future.

Born to Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Goodpasture, then in Livingston, Tennessee, fifty-four years ago, Hugh felt the call to the ministry and so prepared himself. he held the pastorate of the Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, Church where he did a very good work. He left this field and went to Cookeville to assume the pastorate of this Tennessee church. One of the outstanding things about his work there was his ability to gather young people of the community into his church. These he worked for year in and year out, providing summer encampments for them each year. The church prospered under his ministry.

Because of his interest in his community Hugh took on so many duties that his health broke under the load. He stepped out of the pastorate and sought to complete the work for this sectionof the state that he had begun. At the time of his death he was manager of the United States Employment Service and was secretary of the Upper Cumberland Chamber of Commerce. Of this work one of the Nashville papers said editorially about him:

"The Upper Cumberland Valley has lost one of its finest spirits in the death of Mr. Hugh L. Goodpasture, of Cookeville. As secretary of the organization formed to work for development of the resources of tahe region, Mr. Goodpasture worked hard and successfully--and with a vision that always went beyond material factors to the humanity in need of help.

"He worked for dams and power projects, but he thought of these things in terms of the people of the plateau country who had been subjected to the hazards of unemployment by the decline of lumber operations and thesporadic interruptions of coal mining. He hoped to see new and permanent industries founded in the region to afford job security to these, and a better standard of living on the hillside farms.

"Other men of the Upper Cumberland shared with Mr. Goodpasture in the organization of one of the most alert and active community welfare enterprises in the region in the past decade. But it is doubtful that any held more than he the broad, long-range purpose of improvement of the lives of the people through physical improvement of their surroundings and the increase of their opportunities."

In April, 1933, Brother Goodpasture was awarded the Lions Club Citizenship Cup for rendering the most outstanding personal service to the city during the year 1932. He as chosen by a poll of local clubs and organizations for his work in charity during the winter.

Brother Goodpasture was a veteran of World War No. 1.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cera Wilkerson Goodpasture; two daughters, Ruth and Sarah; one son, Hugh L., Jr., all of Cookeville; five brothers, Lurton, Henry, and Robert, of Nashville; Dillard, of Donelson; and Frank of Bristol; and two sisters, Mrs. W. J. Core and Mrs. Tom Hude, of Nashville.

Funeral services were conducted at his home by Rev. G. C. McIlwain, local pastor, and Rev. George W. Burroughs, a long-time friend of Nashville, and interment was in the cemetery in Cookeville.

Thus the Church loses another progressive man.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian March 2, 1944, page 15]

1940
Goodpasture, Hugh L. - Cookeville, Tenn.
Minister - Cookeville Presbytery - Tennessee Synod
Pastor - Union Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk livied in Sykes, Tenn.)
Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1940, pages 195 & 220]

1941
Goodpasture, Hugh L. - Cookeville, Tenn.
Minister - Cookeville Presbytery - Tennessee Synod
Pastor - Union Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk livied in Sykes, Tenn.)
Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1941, pages 199 & 226]