
Birdie Lee Pallette was born October 29, 1885, four miles north of Oak Grove, Missouri, a daughter of Erasmus J. and Harriett Renick Pallette. After several years of failing health, she went to her Eternal Reward on October 27, 1971.
At the age of 19, she was converted and united with the Pleasant Prairie Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
On October 4 [sic: 1], 1916, at the Lobb Church, she was ordained to the ministry, and during the 55 years that followed, she served faithfully and well, in a number of pastorates in Lexington, McGee-New Lebanon, and Platte-Lexington Presbyteries.
Miss Pallette was a woman of deep convictions, and her life was fully dedicated to serving her Lord. She spent many years studying, and received a Bachelor of Divinity Degree at Bethel College in 1913, a Degree for Christian Workers at Scarritt Bible and Training School in 1921, and a Bachelor of Science in Education Degree at the State College at Warrensburg in 1933. She also did graduate work at Vanderbilt, Colorado and Illinois universities. For awhile, in addition to preaching, she taught in several Missouri high schools, and in the Cumberland Presbyterian Chinese Mission in San Francisco. She was well equipped, spiritually and mentally, to serve her fellow man.
"Miss Birdie's" dedicated life will continue to inspire and enrich the lives of countless people.
"Well done, thou good and faithful servant."
[Source: Minutes of Platte-Lexington
Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, March 18,
1972, page 18]

1909
The Woman's
Synodic Convention of Missouri. Met at Pertle Springs. August
27, 1909.
"The Consecration Service, conducted
by Mrs. H. S. McCord before the Synod of Missouri on Friday morning,
Aug. 27, was impressive and beautiful in its every detail. When
an offering of silver and gold was taken $67.00 was laid on the
altar. But the greatest and most beautiful in the sight of God
was the life offering laid on His altar by Miss Birdie Pallette
of Oak Grove, Mo. We pray God's richest blessings on this young
live He has called into His service, and that her works may reap
a harvest of souls for His kingdom."
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian Banner,
September 17, 1909, page 11]
1910-1911
Register
- Birdie Pallette - Missouri
Piano Pupils - Birdie
Pallette
Voice Culture - Birdie Pallette
Ministerial
Students - Birdie Pallette (missionary)
[Source:
Bethel College Catalogue 1911-1912, pages 27, 28 &
29]
1911-1912
Bethel
College Courier Staff 1911 and 1912 - Miss Pallette
Ministerial
and Missionary Students - Birdie Pallette
[Source: Bethel Courier Vol. III No. IV, Bethel
College Catalogue 1912-1913, pages 6a & 27]
1912-1913
Receiving
Degrees - Theological Department - Birdie Lee Pallette, Bachelor
of Divinity, Missouri
[Source:
Bethel Courier Vol. IV No. 4, Bethel College Catalogue 1913-1914,
page 44]
1916
"Special
hour for opportunity to confer with the Presbytery in regard to
an internal call to the Gospel Ministry having arrived the meeting
was turned over to Rev. F. C. Hughes who presented the matter
and Miss Birdie Lee Pallette presented herself and on motion she
was unanimously received as a probationer for the ministry and
her name was ordered enrolled."
Presbyterial
Roll - Candidate - Pallette, Birdie Lee, Warrensburg
[Source: Minutes of Lexington Presbytery of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 1, 1916, pages 10 &
13]
1916
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Warrensburg, Mo.
Candidate - Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Warrensburg, Mo.)
Pastor
- Pisgah Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in
Chilhowee, Mo.
Pastor - Pleasant Grove Cumberland
Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Knob Noster, Mo.)
[Source: Minutes of the General
Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1916, pages
197 & 253]
1916
Roll of Presbytery
- Candidate Present - Birdie Lee Pallette
Report
of Committee on Examination - read and adopted.
"Moderator
and members of Lexington Presbytery. Brethren your committee on
examination of Probationers for the Ministry have had before us
Miss Birdie Pallette of Pleasant Prairie congregation a probationer
for the Ministry and under the care of Lexington Presbytery, and
find in our examination, that said probationer has studied all
those parts of trial for licensure and ordination. We have examined
her on all parts of trial as required by the confession of Faith,
and find her up on all except two works but find she has a very
good knowledge of these two branches; sufficient that we feel
safe in recommending her for licensure and ordination at this
meeting of Presbytery. That she be Licensed at 5:30 this afternoon.--Bro.
Petty to officiate.
The ordination shall take place
tomorrow at eleven that the Moderator appoint some one to preach
the sermon and some one to preside and deliver the charge.--S.
H. McElvain, J. A. Bozarth, J. E. Eberts.
The Moderator
set the hour of 5:30 this afternoon as the time for the lisencure
[sic] of Miss Birdie Lee Pallette and Rev. G. W. Petty was appointed
to officiate.
Rev. J. A. Bozart and Rev. S. H.
McElvain were appointed by the Moderator, the former to preach
the sermon and the latter to preside and deliver the charge, at
the ordination of Miss Birdie Lee Pallette and it was made a special
order of business for the 11 A. M. hour Sunday morning October
1."
Special Hour having arrived for the licensure
of Miss Birdie Lee Pallette the meeting was turned over to Rev.
G. W. Petty, as recommended by the Committee on Examination, who
proceeded to license her.
Ordination. According
to a previous order of Presbytery Licentiate Birdie Lee Pallette
was set apart to the full work of the Gospel Ministry by the laying
on of hands by the Presbytery, Rev. J. A. Bozarth preaching the
sermon from Mark 15:39, "Truly this man was the son of God."
and Rev. S. H. McElvain presiding and giving the charge. [October 1, 1916]
Presbyterial
Roll. Minister. Pallette, Birdie Lee, Warrensburg
[Source: Minutes of Lexington Presbytery of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, September 29-October 1, 1916,
pages 4, 5-6, 11, 14]
1917
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Warrensburg, Mo.
Minister - Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Warrensburg, Mo.)
Pastor
- Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk
lived in Knob Noster, Mo.)
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1917, pages 163, 164 & 255]
1918
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Warrensburg, Mo.
Minister - Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Warrensburg, Mo.)
Pastor
- Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk
lived in Knob Noster, Mo.)
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1918, pages 136 & 222]
1919
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Warrensburg, Mo.
Minister - Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Warrensburg, Mo.)
Pastor
- Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in
Chilhowee, Mo.
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1919, pages 135, 136 & 221]
1920
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Kansas City, Mo.
Minister - Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1920, page 242]
1921
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, 615 Webster St., Oakland, Cal.
Minister
- Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1921, page 324]
1922
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, 615 Webster St., Oakland, Cal.
Minister
- Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1922, page 285]
1923
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, 855 Jackson St., San Francisco, Cal.
Minister
- Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1923, page 295]
1924
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1924, page 263]
1925
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Tr.), Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Miller's Chapel Cumberland
Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Nelson, Mo.)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1925, pages 154 & 240]
1926
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Tr.), Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Hazel Grove Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Marshall, Mo.)
Pastor
- Mt. Horeb (Norton) Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk
lived in Marshall, Mo.)
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1926, pages 162, 163 & 247]
1927
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. an Tr.), 678 S. Odell Ave., Marshall, Mo.
Minister - New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Hazel Grove Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Marshall, Mo.)
Pastor
- Mt. Horeb Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Norton, Missouri
[Source: Minutes of the General
Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1927, pages
185 & 252]
1928
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. an Tr.), 678 S. Odell Ave., Marshall, Mo.
Minister - New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Hazel Grove Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Marshall, Mo.)
Pastor
- Mt. Horeb (Norton) Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk
lived in Norton, Mo.)
Commissioner to General Assembly
in Jackson, Tennessee, June 21-27, 1928.
Served
on the Committee on Endowment.
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1928, pages 18, 21, 28a & 22c]
1929
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. an Tr.), 678 S. Odell Ave., Marshall, Mo.
Minister - New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Hazel Grove Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Marshall, Mo.)
Pastor
- Mt. Horeb Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived
in Norton, Mo.)
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1929, pages 164, 165 & 228]
1930
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Houstonia. Mo.
Minister - New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1930, page 247]
1931
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (Asst. S. C. and Treas.), Warrensburg, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1931, page 231]
1932
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Treas.), Warrensburg, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1932, page 197]
1933
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Treas.) , Houstonia. Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly
in Memphis, Tennessee, June 14-19, 1933.
Served
on the Committee on Ministerial Relief.
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1933, pages 17, 19 & 189]
1934
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Treas.), Houstonia, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1934, page 183]
1935
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Treas.), 317 Grover, Warrensburg, Mo.
Minister - New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly
in McKenzie, Tennessee, June 13-18, 1935.
Served
on the Committee on Educational Endowment.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1935, pages 17, 20 & 192]
1936
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Treas.), Houstonia, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1936, page 200]
1937
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Treas.), Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Norton Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Norton, Mo.
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1937, pages 221 & 263]
1938
Pallette,
Birdie Lee (S. C. and Treas.), Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Norton Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Norton, Mo.
Commissioner to General Assembly
in Russellville, Arkansas, June 16-22, 1938.
Served
on the Committee on Educational Endowment.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1938, pages 16, 20, 199 &
241]
1939
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Little Blue Cumberland Presbyterian
Church (session clerk lived in Grain Valley, Mo.)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1939, pages 201 & 239]
1940
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1940, page 227]
1941
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, (S. C. and Treas.) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Norton Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Norton, Mo.
Commissioner to General Assembly
in Denton, Texas, June 19-24, 1941.
Served on the
Committee on Tithing and Budget.
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1941, pages 15, 21, 195 & 238]
1942
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, (S. C. and Treas.) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Norton Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Norton, Mo.
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1942, pages 213 & 254]
1943
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, (S. C. and Treas.) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Norton Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Norton, Mo.
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1943, pages 215 & 256]
1944
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, (S. C. and Treas.) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly
in Bowling Green, Kentucky, June 15-20, 1944.
Served
on the Committee on Sabbath Observance.
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1944, pages 18, 22 & 233]
1945
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1945, page 250]
1946
Pallette,
Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1946, page 215]
1947
Pallette,
Birdie L., Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1947, page 221]
1948
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1948, page 235]
1949
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1949, page 239]
1950
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1950, page 241]
1951
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1951, page 257]
1952
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1952, page 240]
1953
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1953, page 248]
1954
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee (Missionary), Downing, Mo.
Minister
- McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
Pastor - Middle Fabius Cumberland
Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Memphis, Mo.)
[Source: Minutes of the General
Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1954, pages
221 & 261]
1955
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, 218 W. Jefferson, Potosi, Mo.
Minister
- McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1955, page 242]
1956
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Un-Employed) 218 W. Jefferson, Potosi, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1956, page 258]
1957
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Un-Employed) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1957, pages 185 & 227]
1958
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Un-Employed) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1958
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 30 & 71]
1959
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Retired) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1959
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 30 & 71]
1960
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister - McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1960
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, page 71]
1961
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Un-Employed) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- McGee-New
Lebanon Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1961
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 30 & 71]
1962
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Un-Employed) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1962
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 32 & 80]
1963
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Un-Employed) Oak Grove, Mo.
Minister
- Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1963
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 32 & 81]
1964
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Un-Employed) Oak Grove, Missouri
Minister
- Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1964
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 32 & 81]
1965
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Retired) Oak Grove, Missouri
Minister
- Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1965
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 28 & 80]
1966
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Retired) Oak Grove, Missouri 64075
Minister
- Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1966
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 28 & 80]
1967
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Retired) Oak Grove, Missouri 64075
Minister
- Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1967
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 36 & 82]
1968
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Retired) Oak Grove, Missouri 64075
Minister
- Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1968
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 36 & 82]
1969
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, (Retired) Oak Grove, Missouri 64075
Minister
- Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1969
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 36 & 83]
1970
Pallette,
Miss Birdie Lee, 601 Austin Street, Oak Grove, Missouri 64075
Minister - Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1970
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 36 & 83]
1971
Pallette,
Miss B. L., 9411 East 37th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64133
Minister - Platte-Lexington
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: 1971
Yearbook of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, pages 36 & 83]
1971
Death:
Miss Birdie Lee Pallette, member of Platte-Lexington
Presbytery, died in Kansas City, October 27. She was 86
years old and had been an ordained minister for 55 years.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian,
December 7, 1971, page 4]
1972
Committee
On Mortuary.
After several years of failing health,
Reverend Miss Birdie Lee Pallette went to her Eternal Reward on
October 27, 1971, two days before her 86th birthday.
On
October 4, 1916 at the Lobb Church, she was ordained to the Full
Work of the Gospel Ministry. In the 55 years that followed, she
served faithfully and well, in many pastorates in Lexington, McGee-New
Lebanon, and Platte-Lexington Presbyteries.
She
was a native Missourian, having been born near Oak Grove, on October
29, 1885. At the age of 19 she was converted, and united with
the Pleasant Prairie Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
She
was a woman of deep conviction, and her early life was fully dedicated
to serving her Lord. she spent many years studying, in many schools,
to more fully prepare to serve her fellow man.
We
shall miss her wise counsel and her deep devotion to the work
of the church she loved. Her dedicated life will continue to inspire
and enrich the lives of countless people.
We recommend
that a Memorial Service be conducted at 1:30 this afternoon, with
Chaplain James R. Scobey, in charge. It was her request that he
conduct her funeral service, which he did, on Saturday, October
30, 1971, at the Webb Chapel in Oak Grove, Missouri.
We
further recommend that a page be set aside in our minutes in her
memory.
Respectfully submitted, Rev. J. Robert
Browne, Rev. Woodson O. Bennett.
Memorial Service.
Chaplain James R. Scobey conducted
a memorial service in honor of the Reverend Miss Birdie Lee Pallette,
who passed away October 27, 1971, after 55 years in the ministry,
most of it having been spent in this Presbytery. He used one of
her many Bibles, and read a number of her favorite Scriptures,
poems and other treasured gems of literature, which she had placed
in her Bible.
[Source: Minutes
of Platte-Lexington Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, March 18, 1972, pages 18 & 19]
1972
Deceased
Minister of the Church
Name: Pallette, Miss B.
L.
Age: 85
Presbytery: Platte-Lexington
Date of Death: October 27, 1971
[Source: 1972 Yearbook of the General Assembly of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, page 89]