From the Longview (TX) News-Journal’s website, www.news-journal.com:
Friends remember Templeton as mentor to area musicians
By CHRISTINA LANE
The Longview chapter of the Texas Mass Choir has postponed a concert indefinitely as friends and family mourn the death of the chapter president, the Rev. Eddie Templeton.
“He was a Godly, loving man,” said his wife, Jo Ann Templeton. “He was a great husband, a great father, a friend to all mankind, a humble servant of God. There’s just so much that I could say — so many things that he was.”
Templeton, 61, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure. He was the minister of music at Galilee Baptist Church in Longview.
“Longview, Texas and America has lost a great soul, who had a great impact on anybody he met,” said the Rev. Lamar F. Jones, pastor of Galilee Baptist Church in Hallsville. “We’re going to miss him. We have a lot of great things that we can thank God he was able to do while he was here.”
Templeton was on the board of directors of the Gospel Music Workshop of America, was a member of the Longview Ministerial Alliance, and was a board member for the Stellar Awards, a gospel awards show. He also owned Rev. E.T. Gospel Music Store on Eastman Road in Longview.
Read the entire story at: Longview (TX) News-Journal
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Bless you! I had no idea that someone had a blog already. Rev. Eddie Templeton is my grandpa. I designed a group on Facebook, In Loving Memory of Rev. Eddie Templeton. I am working on a myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/revet. Please keep us in your prayers because TRULY this is a struggle. Thanks!
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Prophet Horton, bless you and keep you at this time. Know that the gospel music community holds you and your family in the palms of their hands.
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