07/18/2024
Rev. Terry Glenn Hansen
The Reverend Terry Glenn Hansen, 73, of Humboldt, Tennessee, died July 16, 2024. He was an honorably retired member of Missouri Presbytery. He was born March 13, 1951, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Edgar and Theresa Jane Hansen. Terry had three sisters. The family soon moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where Terry graduated from Hopkinsville High School in 1969. After graduation, Terry enrolled in Hopkinsville Community College, a satellite of the University of Kentucky.
Terry married Connie Curry when he was nineteen in August 1970. They had a son, Mark Allen Hansen (February 11, 1973 - May 27, 2019) in Hopkinsville. In his early-twenties, Terry was called to the ministry. He served Shiloh Baptist Church in Hopkinsville as pastor for most of the 1970s. Terry and Connie divorced in September 1980, and Terry began a second career in sales. Terry managed the shoe department of the Parks-Belk department store in the Old Hickory Mall in Jackson, Tennessee, and later managed Shoe Express in Jackson. On November 29, 1981, Terry married Ruth Ann Dollar. Their daughter, Jennifer Ruth was born January 21, 1984.
Terry returned to ministry October 1, 1994, when he came before West Tennessee Presbytery meeting with Mount Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Falkner, Mississippi, as a candidate for the ministry from Double Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church between Humboldt and Milan, Tennessee. Having been received by presbytery, on October 21, 1994, he was approved as stated supply for Double Springs CPC. Terry was licensed March 1, 1997, at Olivet Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Tennessee. The Reverend Ron McMillan posed the questions prior to licensing.
While Terry was pastor at Double Springs, Cayce Lynn McDaniel, 14, one of the youth of the church disappeared from her home in Milan after a “back to school” party at the church, August 16, 1996. The case attracted national media attention and Terry was frequently quoted in the press as the church and community struggled for years to keep the cold case in the public eye. Just over 26 years after Cayce vanished, the case was finally resolved.
Terry graduated from Memphis Theological Seminary in 1997, and was ordained March 15, 1998, at Double Springs CPC, by a commission from West Tennessee Presbytery consisting of the Reverends Steve Mosley, James Westbrook, Hobert Walker, Roy W. Hall, and elder Dave Franklin. Terry was then installed as pastor of Double Springs CPC where he remained until February 2003, when he accepted a call to White Oak Pond Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Missouri Presbytery) in Lebanon, Missouri.
In 2016, Terry and Ruth Ann returned to Humboldt where Terry accepted a call to Central Avenue Christian Church. His son, Mark, and Ruth Ann both died in 2019.
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