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Raymond Byrd Spivey

Short Name: Raymond Byrd Spivey
Full Name: Spivey, Raymond Byrd

Spivey, Raymond Byrd. Born in North Carolina, he was educated at Lees-McRae Junior College, King College, and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Served churches in Madill, Oklahoma; Petersburg, Alaska; School of the Ozarks, Missouri; Palmyra-Hannibal, Missouri; Louisville, Kentucky; Baltimore, Maryland; and Arthurdale, West Virginia. For a period he also was superintendent of church extension in the Indian Presbytery of Oklahoma.

--The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives

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[Spivey] has served as moderator of four presbyteries, and of the Synod of Oklahoma. His hymns and poems have appeared in various magazines and in two anthologies.

--Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.


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