Death

Rev. E. Rueb, 72, died September 24 near Calhoun, Ga., where he was pastor. Funeral was at the Medina, Tenn., church with Rev. E. C. Cross officiating. His wife survives. Born in Rotterdam, Holland, he attended Bethel College and was ordained to the ministry by Obion Presbytery.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, October 11, 1955, page 4]

Rev. E. Rueb

On September 24 members of the Medina, Tenn., congregation received the sad message of the passing of the Rev. E. Rueb, former pastor of the Medina church. He died of a second heart attack, while enroute to a hospital near his home near Calhoun, Ga. He had suffered a light attack nearly two years ago. He had another attack last spring, from which he had never fully recovered, although he had only missed one appointment because of his illness, having preached at his church on Sunday before his death.

Services were held September 26 at the Medina Cumberland church with Rev. E. C. Cross of Dyersburg, Tenn., officiating, assisted by the pastor, Rev. Gene Bergstresser, and the Rev. Barney Flowers of the Baptist Church, Burial was in Hollywood Cemetery at Jackson, Tenn.

Bro. Rueb came to America from Roterdam when about 19 years of age and was ordained to the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1918. He held pastorates in Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia and his many friends coming from distant and near-by towns and churches and the gorgeous floral offerings with the appropriate songs and fitting remarks by the speakers was a real testimony of the esteem in which he was held. As was mentioned more than once in the funeral service: "a prince in Israel has fallen." He was true to his convictions and the principles for which his church stands.

He was 72 and wanted to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ as long as he could have the opportunity. It was his desire that if he could no longer procure work that the heavenly Father would see fit to take him home.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. May Harber Rueb, and a sister in Holland.
      --Mrs. E. H. Bradbury

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, October 25, 1955, page 15]

[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1956, page 146]