ADDING UP THE YEARS--Four veteran Cumberland Presbyterian ministers are totaling up their years in the ministry and find, that since being ordained, these add up to 188 years.

They are, left to right, Rev. W. O. Wayman of Warrensburg, Missouri, 40 years in the ministry; Rev. L. D. Ballard (seated) of East Tennessee Presbytery, 41 years; Rev. G. L. Waddle, Midlothian, Texas, 54 years, and Rev. A. C. Stribling, Sedalia, Missouri, 53 years.

The men were in a meeting at the Center in Memphis, making plans for the annual Veteran Ministers' Fellowship which will be held just prior to General Assembly in June at Austin, Texas.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, May 7, 1963, page 4]

Rev. W. O. Wayman, pastor of the Warrensburg (Mo.) church, died April 19 of a heart attack. He was 74.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Buena Dale King Wayman, one son, Delmar Wade Wayman, and one daughter, Mrs. Osborne McMillan.

He had been pastor of the Warrensburg church for 18 years in two pastorates: 1940 to 1948 and 1954 to the time of his death. Most of his forty-one years in the ministry were served in Missouri churches.

He had been active in temperance work in most communities where he had been pastor.

At the time of his death he was president of the Veteran Ministers Fellowship of the church. He was a member of the Camp Cumberland board also, and had been a leader in the camps there since 1927. He was a member of Platte-Lexington Presbytery.

His funeral was conducted by Rev. Melvin Chambers of St Joseph, Mo., at the Warrensburg church. Another service was held at the Liberty-Wayman church near Albany where he was buried in the church cemetery.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, May 12, 1964, page 3]

Wade Orvis Wayman was born November 13, 1889, at Albany, Mo., a son of Rev. and Mrs. John S. Wayman.

He was converted and united with the Liberty (Wayman) Congregation, near Albany, at the age of sixteen.

He joined Platte Presbytery as a Candidate for the Ministry in August, 1920, was licensed to preach in 1921, and ordained in 1923.

Rev. Wayman spent most of his life in Platte and Lexington Presbyteries, and was in his eighteenth year at Warrensburg, Mo., at the time of his death of a heart attack, on April 19, 1964.

He was pastor at Muskogee and Amorita, Okla., and served as Dean of the Oklahoma Synodic Camp five years. He was on various boards in Missouri, notably Missions and Evangelism nine years and Publication and Christian Education eight years. He was moderator many times, and seldom missed a church court, and never missed a church service where he was pastor.

He participated in several building programs, Harmony Church being one of which he was justly proud.

Rev. Wayman was untiring in his ministry to the sick. He was interested and active in the spiritual welfare of all in his community. Indeed it can be said of him,
                                      "Well done, thou good and faithful servant."
[Source: 1964 Minutes of Platte-Lexington Presbytery, page 2]