From the files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Mrs. J. F. Dring

Written at the bottom of the obituary is
"Rev Dring our pastor twice"

Mrs. J. F. Dring was Sibbie Smith prior to her marriage to Rev. John Franklin Dring. Rev. Dring served as pastor of the First Methodist Church in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana from 1915  to 1917 and from 1933 to 1935. 

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"Mrs. J. F. Dring," newspaper clipping, June 1965,  unidentified newspaper, from the privately held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Obituaries were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

Marguerite Cook Clark, A History of First United Methodist Church, unpublished manuscript, from the privately held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Obituaries were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.