DR. ROY EDWIN MCAULEY

Dr. Roy Edwin McAuley, age 91, of Kansas City, formerly of Warrensburg, passed away Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at Kingswood Health Center in Kansas City, MO. He was born May 31, 1921, in Wichita, KS, the son of Addison Bishop and Thomasita (Martin) McAuley. On June 21, 1943, he was united in marriage to Ruth Arlene Nicholson in Wichita, KS. She preceded him in death on Nov. 12, 2010. Dr. McAuley was a graduate of McPherson College (BS 1943), Bethany Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois (M. Div. 1946), the University of Nebraska (MA 1948) and the University of Denver (Ed. D 1953). Dr. McAuley served pastorates in Omaha, NE and Akron, OH, and was a supply pastor for churches in Missouri and Pennsylvania. In the academic area, he served as the Academic Dean, then President of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He later became the Academic Vice President of the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, MO, retiring in 1988. After retirement he served as the pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Warrensburg. Survivors include his children, Dr. Arthur McAuley and wife Victoria of Paxton, MA, Mark McAuley and wife Virginia of Kansas City, MO, Anne McAuley of Kansas City, and Ruth Alicia Jones and husband Curtis of Warrensburg, MO, four grandchildren, eight great- grandchildren and a sister Alice Bertha Burns of Rosman, NC. In addition to his beloved wife, he was preceded in death by three brothers, Joe, Arthur and Max McAuley. Memorial services for Dr. McAuley will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Warrensburg, MO, with the Reverend Randy Crawshaw officiating. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until service time at the church. Internment will follow at the Warrensburg Memorial Gardens Cemetery. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Pipe Organ Fund and may be left in care of the Sweeney-Phillips and Holdren Funeral Home, 617 N. Maguire, Warrensburg, Missouri 64093.