John L. "Jack" McCullough

McCULLOUGH, John L. "Jack", 88, died January 24, 2009, at The Hermitage, in Richmond, after a long and courageous struggle with Alzheimer's disease. A native of Chattanooga, Tenn., he was a graduate of the Baylor School and Vanderbilt University. Immediately after college, he entered naval officers' training at Columbia University. He served as skipper of P.T. boats in the Atlantic and Pacific and as assistant navigator on a main sweeper after the Japanese surrender. In 1955, he entered the ministry graduating from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary during its first phase. A strong advocate of civil rights, after serving churches in North Carolina and Virginia, he spent 20 years with the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services. Survivors are his wife, Louise; son, Lawrence III and his wife, Pam; daughter and son-in-law, the Reverends Mary Louise McCullough and Michael Wilson; two grandsons, Marcus McCullough and Evan Coakley; and brother, Lt. Col. (ret.) Donald T. McCullough and his wife, Mitzie. Jack was a member of Ginter Park Baptist Church. A memorial service will be held at The Hermitage on Wednesday, February 4, at 10:30 a.m. Remembrances may be made to Ginter Park Baptist Church at 1200 Wilmington Ave., Richmond, Va. 23227 or the Alzheimer's Association at 4600 Cox Rd., Suite 130, Glen Allen, Va. 23060.
This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.