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 From nobody@wfn.org  Fri Nov  3 00:00:00 2000
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
Date: November 3, 2000
on the Web: http://www.disciples.org
E-mail: CWillis@oc.disciples.org

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	INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- Memorial services for the Rev. Doris V. McCullough,
74, will be Nov. 11 at First Christian Church, Concord. Calif. She died
Oct. 28 in Concord, Calif.

	A longtime servant of the church, McCullough was first an associate
regional minister and later, regional minister/vice president of the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Northern California/Nevada from
1971-1990. She retired in 1991, after 20 years in regional ministry. She
also served as coordinator of the 1994 International Christian Women's
Fellowship Quadrennial Assembly.

	The Greensburg, Kan., native was born Oct. 30, 1925. She earned a
bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She studied at
the New School of Religion, Pontiac, Mich., the School of Theology at
Claremont, Calif., and the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif.
McCullough was ordained into the Christian ministry in 1978.

	Her areas of interest and expertise included Christian education, women's
issues, global outreach and ecumenism. She was a speaker, facilitator or
workshop leader at numerous area and regional events and was active in
global mission activities in the Pacific Southwest Region. She participated
in a global mission venture to Japan, and traveled to the former U.S.S.R.,
Vietnam and Cambodia and Fiji.

	In 1987, McCullough received the Kilgore Award from the School of Theology
at Claremont. She also wrote a book, Linkings, published by Christian Board
of Publication in 1988. In the spring of 2000 she received the Hall of Fame
Award from the Northern California-Nevada region for outstanding leadership
to the whole church. 

	McCullough is survived by two sons, Patrick N. McCullough, Hollister,
Calif., and Daniel R. McCullough, Kaysville, Utah, and their families,
which include eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Two
siblings also survive, Dale Pew, Delen, N.M., and Phyllis McKey, Pueblo,
Colo.

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