Obituary of James McKaughan

James McKaughanA memorial service will be at 11 a.m. May 15 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Eugene for the Rev. James Wesley McKaughan of Springfield, who died April 23 of age-related causes. He was 96.He was born March 29, 1916, in Hueneme, Calif., to Paul and Edith Marie Barton McKaughan. He married Dorothy Ward on May 14, 1940, in Upland, Calif. She died June 17, 2008.He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1939 and a master of divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1942. He graduated with a master of arts degree in Old Testament theology from Princeton Seminary in 1967. He and his wife served the Nez Perce and Umatilla Indians at Tutuwilla Church on the Umatilla Reservation near Pendleton from 1942 to 1943.They served as missionaries in Mexico beginning in 1943, spending 20 years in the southern state of Tabasco and then 10 years teaching at the Presbyterian Seminary in Mexico City. In 1973 they moved back to the United States, and from 1974 to 1981 he served as pastor of Harvest Presbyterian Church in Ceres, Calif. After they retired, he served for many years as visitation pastor and supervisor of the deacons for Westminster Presbyterian Church.Survivors include a son, Larry of Eugene; two daughters, Linda Knapp of Eugene and Elena Leman of Spokane; a brother, Howard of Dayton; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.Arrangements by England’s Eugene Memorial Chapel in Eugene. Remembrances to the James McKaughan Memorial Fund at Westminster Presbyterian Church.