1949
April 12-13, 1949
Cumberland Presbytery - Lick Branch Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Barren County, Kentucky

The time for the special hour having arrived, an opportunity was given for anyone wishing to converse with this Presbytery in regard to an internal call to the Gospel ministry to come forward. Johnie W. Hawkins, Johnie W. Huffman and Calvin W. Mouser, of the Pleasant Valley Church; and Arvin Milby, of the Oak Forest Church responded.

A motion was made and passed to receive them under the care of this Presbytery as candidates for the Gospel Ministry.

Calvin Wesley Mouser, born July 12, 1922, saved November 1947, and united with Pleasant Valley church. Has high school education, address; Knob Lick, Ky.

[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 13, 1949, page 358]

1951
April 10-11, 1951
Cumberland Presbytery - Seven Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Metcalfe County, Kentucky

Rev. B. K. DeSpain, licensed the following candidates to preach the Gospel in Cumberland Presbytery: Hudson London, Damon London, Arvin Milby, Robert W. Milby and Calvin W. Mouser.

[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 11, 1951, page 429]

1953
May 5-6, 1953
Cumberland Presbytery - Neal's Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Barren County, Kentucky

The Moderator appointed the Rev. A. B. Hiser, the Chairman of the Committee on Theology and Literature to preside in the ordination Service of Brothers Calvin Mouser, Damon C. London, Hudson London, and Arvin C. Milby.

Son: "Lord Send Me"
Scripture: II Tim. 4:1-5
Text: II Tim. 4:2. Isa. 58:1.
Subject: "The Need of an Emphatic Ministry"

After the message the Presbytery proceeded to set the brethren apart to the full work of the Gospel Ministry by prayer and the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery.

The Rev. V. A. Jones delivered the charge to newly ordained ministers.

[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, May 6, 1953, page 9]

Rev. Calvin W. Mouser, pastor of the CP church at Greensburg, KY died July 15 of cancer. He was 56. He had supplied his pulpit up until a few weeks ago.

He had been pastor at Greensburg for ten years. Previously he served as executive secretary of Kentucky Synod 1963-68. He had served on the denomination's board of missions, as moderator of Kentucky Synod, and as stated clerk of Cumberland Presbytery.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Wynemia Mouser, and one daughter, Mrs. Nancy Mikel of Russellville, AR. The funeral was in Greensburg and burial in nearby Center, KY.

Fellow pastor Blake F. Warren of Campbellsville in conducting the service noted how he had faced his terminal illness so courageously. The minister said that while he was taking treatments at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, he made a presentation to the medical staff on facing death.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, August 15, 1978, page 10]

The 1978 Minutes of the Kentucky Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, were dedicated to the memory of Rev. Calvin W. Mouser.
Born July 12, 1922
Entered the Ministry April, 1949
Ordained to the Ministry April, 1953
Executive Secretary Kentucky Synod 1963-1968
Died July 15, 1978

WHEREAS, the Reverend Calvin W. Mouser of Cumberland Presbytery, Kentucky Synod, departed this life July 15, 1978 leaving behind a host of relatives, friends, church members, and co-workers, who will miss his ready wit, pleasant smile, warm personality, and supportive faith; and

WHEREAS, Reverend Mouser server numerous congregation as pastor in Cumberland, Princeton, and Mayfield Presbyteries, and as the Executive Secretary of Kentucky Synod from 1963 until 1968, and

WHEREAS, whether as pastor or as Executive Secretary, Reverend Mouser made a considerable contribution to the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky,

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Minutes of the 150th session of Kentucky Synod be dedicated to the memory of the Reverend Calvin W. Mouser, and that the Stated Clerk be directed to place a memorial page in the front of the Minutes so designating this memorial.
Respectfully, J. C. Womack

[Source: Minutes of Kentucky Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1978, pages 1 & 54]

The Rev. Calvin W. Mouser, 56, former Executive Secretary of Kentucky Synod, died July 15 at the Veterans Hospital in Lexington, Ky. He was born July 12, 1922 in Metcalfe County, Ky. the son of the late Bert and Ida Myers Mouser.

At the time of his death he was serving as pastor of the Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Cumberland Presbytery, a position he had held for ten years. He came to Greensburg from Madisonville where he served as the synod executive from 1963-1968 and was pastor of the Madisonville Church from 1959-1963. Previously he was pastor of the Liberty Church, Cumberland Presbytery, for six years.

Prior to entering the ministry he had been a farmer and was in the U.S. Army for over five years during World War II. He was a graduate of Bethel College and attended Memphis Theological Seminary.

Calvin had served on a number of boards and committees of the Cumberland Presbytery, on the Denominational and Synodic Boards of Missions and the Synod Board of Publication and Christian Education. He was moderator of Kentucky Synod in 1964 and was nominated by Princeton Presbytery for moderator of the General Assembly in 1967. He was a member of the Greensburg Ministerial Association and a former member of the Madisonville Ministerial Association and Civitan Club.

He and his wife, the former Wynemia Bowles, were united in marriage May 18, 1946. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Mikel, Russellville, Ar.; a grandson, Jason Mikel; and a sister, Mrs. Catherine Bruner, Elizabethtown.

The memorial service was at the Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Monday, July 17 with the Rev. Blake Warren, pastor of the Liberty Church, officiating. The delegation of clergymen attending included ministers and fellow Cumberland Presbyterian pastors. Active pallbearers were the elders of the Greensburg Church. Deacons of the church served as honorary pallbearers, along with the Cumberland Presbyterian ministers. Burial was in the Center Cemetery.

In an article in the Greensburg RECORD-HERALD, Calvin was described as "a man of outstanding faith, one whose faith was proven again and again through the way he lived and the way he died.

The manner in which he handled the knowledge of his impending death was an inspiration to all people with whom he came in contact. At the request of staff members at the University of Kentucky Medical School he had conducted a number of seminars, speaking to medical students on the subject of dealing with death with the dying. He was diagnosed several years ago as having a rare and malignant disease. His death came as a result of progression of the disease.

During his tenure the Greensburg Church was marked by growth of membership, church program, and physical plant. Many parents have paid tribute to Calvin who, as one said, "touched our young people's lives so unbelievably and at the same time got us as parents through our children's teen years." The church is recognized as having one of the most active youth programs in the presbytery. He was instrumental in getting Community Lenten Vesper Services and a Community Vacation Church School started in the town. It was also under his direction that the church expanded its ministry within the community by the establishing of the day care center for children of working mothers.

His ready wit, his pleasant smile and his descriptive phraseology of the issues will be sorely missed by his church, his presbytery, his synod, yea, his entire denomination.

Our prayers and our expressions of sympathy are extended to his family and the congregation he leaves behind. May God bless and undergird in this hour of need.

[Source: "The Kentucky Synod Voice," Volume 15, Number 7 (September 1979), pages 1 & 4]

Bert E. Mouser
[son of Abraham G. Mouser and Victoria B. ?]
born: 4 November 1901 - Metcalfe County, Kentucky
died: March 1976
buried:
married:
wife: Ida Lee Myers
[daughter of Daniel William Myers and Mary Susan Thompson]
born: October 1896 - Donansburg, Green County, Kentucky
died:
buried:

Children of Bert E. Mouser and Ida Myers Mouser:

1. Calvin Wesley Mouser
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister
born: 12 July 1922 - Metcalfe County, Kentucky
died: 15 July 1978 - Lexington, Kentucky
buried: 17 July 1978 - Center, Metcalfe County, Kentucky
married: 18 May 1946
wife: Wynemia Bowles
[daughter of ? Bowles and ? ?]

Child of Calvin W. Mouser and Wynemia Bowles Mouser:

1.1. Nancy Mouser

2. Catherine Mouser
husband: ? Bruner