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- Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999
Name: Leonard H Sorrells
Date of Birth: 10 Oct 1933
County: Harlan
Mother's name: Vida Redd
Volume Number: 089
Certificate Number: 44120
Volume Year: 1933
North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011
Name: Leonard Harold Sorrells
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 22
Birth Year: abt 1934
Marriage Date: 7 Jun 1956
Marriage Place: Rutherford, North Carolina, USA
Spouse: Hester Joan McSwain
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Race: White
Spouse Age: 23
Event Type: Marriage
U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current
Name: Rev Leonard Harold Sorrells
Gender: Male
Residence Date: Abt 1956
Residence Place: Tophill Road Louisville Alb
Residence Place 2: 2612 Tophill Road Louisville
Residence Place 3: Petersburg
School: Morgan School Here Carson-Newman College
Marriage Date: 7 Jun 1956
Marriage Place: Hollis
Father: Leonard Sorrells
Mother: Sorrells
Spouse: Hester Joan Sorrells
Siblings:
Dorothy Lynn Sorrells
Fred Sorrells
He received his Bachelor's Degree from Carson Newman College, Jefferson City, TN. He received his Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry Degrees at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lousiville, KY.
Harold Sorrells was the pastor of:
Edgefield Baptist Church in Hopkinsville, Kentucky from 1958-1961
Lockeland Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee from 1961-1976
Grace Baptist Church in Sumpter, South Carolina from 1976- until his death on March 26, 1983.
Harold had a loud voice, and he loved football.
Fayetteville-January 5, 1956
HAROLD SORRELLS ORDAINED - "Harold Sorrells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Sorrells, was ordained for the ministry at Hannah's Gap Baptist church on Sunday....Harold is a student at the Seminary in Louisville, Ky."
He was pastor in Louisville, KY, Hopkinsville, KY, Lockland Baptist Church in Nashville, TN and Grace Baptist Church in Sumter, SC.
The Seventh Pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Sumpter, SC:
Sunday, July 4, 1976 we welcomed our seventh pastor, Rev. Harold Leonard Sorrells and family, wife Joanne, sons Paul and John, and daughter Ann, and celebrated the Bicentennial of our nation!
Rev. Sorrells and his cousin, Knox Lambert were reared on adjoining farms in Petersburg, Tennessee, and both were ordained by Hannah’s Gap Baptist Church. On September 1 Jean Peoples began his 12 year ministry as Minister of Music.
A church business conference on June 8, 1977 triggered a series of events that altered the course of history for Grace. Rev. Sorrells established a committee to “survey needs of the church and formulate a plan of action to repair, redecorate, remodel, and restore our church buildings.” This led to the selling of our property to Tuomey Hospital for $1.1 million, purchasing the long vacant McLaurin Junior High Campus one block away as our third church site for $185,000, embarking on “Together We Build” - raising $500,720, surpassing the “Hallelujah Goal of $400,000.
Our pastor completed his doctorate in June 1980. On Sunday, October 31, 1982, Dr. Sorrells and the congregation walked down Calhoun Street to our lot and broke ground. Five months later, on March 26, 1983, an automobile accident in Spartanburg County claimed the lives of Dr. and Mrs. Sorrells as they were returning from a Christian Life Seminar in Louisville, Kentucky. Two of the three Sorrells children, Ann and Paul and his family, are part of our fellowship today. (2004)
He served on the Board of Trustees for Carson Newman College and Furman University.
He had diabetes and took insulin to control it.
He and his wife were killed in head on collision by a drunk driver.
Web: Tennessee, Find A Grave Index, 1796-2011
Name: Harold Sorrells
Birth Date: 10 Oct 1933
Age at Death: 49
Death Date: 26 Mar 1983
Burial Place: Petersburg (Lincoln County), Lincoln County, Tennessee, USA
U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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Name: Harold Sorrells
Birth Date: 10 Oct 1933
Birth Place: Yancey, Harlan County, Kentucky, United States of America
Death Date: 26 Mar 1983
Death Place: Woodruff, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States of America
Cemetery: Foster Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Petersburg, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States of America
Has Bio?: Y
Father: Leonard D. Sorrells
Mother: Vida Sorrells
Spouse: Joanne Sorrells
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70949508/harold-sorrells
Social Security Death Index
Name: Harold Sorrells
SSN: 412-56-7680
Born: 10 Oct 1933
Died: Mar 1983
State (Year) SSN issued: Tennessee (1953 )
U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current
Name: L. Harold Sorrells
Gender: Male
Death Age: 40
Birth Date: abt 1943
Birth Place: Iredell County, N. C
Residence Place: Sumter
Death Date: Abt 1983
Burial Place: Po-grab, Tenn.
Obituary Date: 29 Mar 1983
Obituary Place: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Newspaper Title: The Courier-Journal
Father:
Eaker
Parents: L.D. Sorrells; Vida Redd Sorrells
Spouse: Joanne Mc Swain Sorrells
Child:
Paul Harold Sorrells
John Leonard Sorrells
Ann Laura Sorrells
Siblings:
Fred Sorrells
Dorothy Lynn Burleson
Wade McSwain
Lawrence McSwain
Thayburn McSwain
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1933 - 1983 (49 years)
