CYRUS BOOKER HUTCHERSON
1905 - 2000
Bom in Glasgow, KY, on May 5, 1905, Cyrus Booker
Hutcherson was the son of the Honorable John Cyrus
Hutcherson, statesman and a member of the Kentucky
General Assembly in 1925.
Cyrus joined the Methodist Church at age 14. He
graduated from high school at Glasgow, KY in 1928, and
received his AB degree from Asbury College, BD degree
from Asbury Theological Seminary, and completed post
graduate work at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary,
Vanderbilt, and the Chaplains School at Harvard.
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Cyrus pastored in the New York Conference prior to World War II. He served as
conference evangelist of the Louisville Conference for several years. He volunteered for the
chaplaincy a few days after Pearl Harbor, and was assigned duty in the South Pacific theater
of war for over two years. He also was pastor in the Florida and NC Conferences.
In the NC Conference he served Devon Park beginning in 1961, and his last
assignment was City Road GMC at Elizabeth City in 1968. He retired in 1971 and moved
to Madisonville, KY.
Several years later, in 1980, Cyrus and his wife, Louise Oates Hutcherson, moved to
Marietta, GA. They had been married since June 15, 1934, and spent 52 years together.
Then following her death on September 31, 1986, he relocated to a retirement center in
Valdosta, GAto be near his oldest son, David. He remained physically active and continued
his ministry by founding the JWC (Jesus Walking Club). His regimen as the founder
included a daily three mile walk.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Katherine and Reverend Mark
Nysewander of Bloomington, MN; two sons and daughters-in-law, David and Judy
Hutcherson of Valdosta, GA, and C. B. and Elizabeth Hutcherson of Greensboro, GA; eight
grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in Marietta, GA, on Sunday, February 6, 2000. The
Reverend Mark Nysewander and Dr. Harold Brooks, officiated, with burial in Cheatham Hill
Memorial Park in Marietta, GA.
The Hutcherson Family
