By James D. Yates (Editor’s Note: Because of the press of business affairs, brother James D. Yates, an elder of the Fry Road congregation in Houston, Texas where Roy held membership and a close personal friend of Roy’s for thirty-one years, could not write a special article for this Memorial Issue. I have, with his permission, …
Yearly Archives: 2012
A Birthday Greeting And A Sad Farewell
By James R. Cope (Editor’s Note: When we called brother Cope relative to writing something for this Memorial Special, he suggested that we might publish his personal letter to brother Cogdill on the occasion of brother Cogdill’s 78th birthday, April 24, 1985.) My dear Roy, On this, your 78th birthday, also the birth date of our …
Workers Together
By Harold Fite I first became aware of Roy E. Cogdill during my high school days in Dallas, Texas. At that time he was with the Preston Road congregation of that city. In my teen years I had several opportunities to hear him preach, and through the years he preached in meetings where I did local …
Roy E. Cogdill-Defender Of The Faith
By Hoyt H. Houchen On Monday morning, May 13, 1 received a telephone call from Texas to tell me that brother Roy Cogdill had passed away the night before (Sunday evening, May 12, at about 11:30). My first acquaintance with Roy E. Cogdill goes back many years, to the time that I was about nine years …