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Fl'om the
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DETROIT
Conference of
The Methodist Church
COi\lMISSION ON PUBLI C RELATIONS AN D METHODIST INFORMATION
Press Room
Adrian College
Adrian, Michigan
June 7, 1967
Copy:
Dr. D.
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Carpenter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Rev. Troy
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Douthit, Minister of the Bancroft-Pittsburg
Charge, The Methodist Church, was elected to Full Membership in The
Detroit Annual Conference of the Methodist Church on Tuesday evening,
June 6, at the 126th session of the annual conference on the campus
of Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan.
He will be ordained an Elder in the Methodist Church by
Bishop Dwight E. Loder at the closing session of the Conference on
Saturday afternoon.
Son or Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Douthit of Orlando, Florida, Rev.
Douthit was recommended for a License to Preach by the Quarterly
Conference of the New Haven-Meade Charge and was received on Trial
in the Detroit Conference in 1964.
Rev. Douthit is a graduate of' Southeastern High School, Detroit:
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, and Garrett
Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois.
Rev. Douthit is active in the Boy Scouts and the Lion's Club.
He served Me thodist Churches at Memphis-Lamb, and Gordonville
before being appointea. to tne Bancroft Gnarge.
Mrs. fh uthit
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tbe former Miss W. Diane Seegar of La Grange,
nev. and Mrs. Douthit are the parents
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Virginia Ione, tl; Candace Gay, 7; and Todd Alan, 5·
By the reading or the appointments on Tuesday evening by
Bishop Loder, Rev. Douthit will serve as Minister of the Good
Shepherd Methodist Church in St. Clair Shores this coming year .
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TROY 0. DOUTHIT
One of six children, I was born on the Detroit Eastside, September 10, 1935. My father
was a city policeman and mother was a seamstress for Federal Department Stores. Except for a
brief period on a farm in Macomb County, Detroit was home until graduation from Southeastern
High School. I was drafted into the military in 1954, where, following basic training, I spent two
years in Berlin, Germany.
I married Diane in 1958, and four children, Virginia, Candace, Todd and Martha quickly
followed. I attended Central Michigan, graduating in 1963. I completed Garrett Theological
Seminary in 1966. Now retirement will provide time for grandchildren Andrea, Nichole, Christian
and Lindsey.
Assignments include a career in the military chaplaincy, and the following additional
appointments: Memphis and Lamb, 1959; Gordonville, 1961; Bancroft and Pittsburg, 1963;
Good Shepherd St. Clair Shores, 1967; Aldersgate, Redford (Assoc.), 1988; and Lincoln Park
First (1990). The most influential person in vocational decisions was the late Reverend Leslie
Culver.
I have been blessed by friends who have stood beside me; graced with a calling which was
continuously challenging; gifted with a wife, Diane, and children, who supported me when
demands on time were severe and they would have wished for me to be more available. I am
grateful to God for labor which has made life full and good.
I know no one who is able to see down the road named tomorrow very far. Nor can I. I am
however, leaning into the future with confidence and great optimism. I will "keep the faith" in
Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
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Mrs. W. Diane Douthit and her daughter,
Mrs. Virginia Roemer.
State Board Examination for Kentucky. Mrs.
Douthit's daughter, MRS. VIRGI NIA
ROEMER , graduated from Crawford W.
Long School of Nursing, Atlanta, and is a
registered nurse in the State of Georgia. Mrs.
Douthit is the wife and Mrs . Roemer the
daughter of Chaplain (MAJ) Troy 0.
Douthit, hospital chaplain at Fort Campbell,
Kentucky. Chaplain Douthit is a member of
the Detroit Conference ~ f the United
Methodist Church.
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