1913 — 2013

STATESVILLE — The Rev. Dr. Julian Astor Lindsey, of the Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community, in Winston-Salem, passed away Friday, Feb. 15.  The oldest United Methodist minister in the Western North Carolina Conference, he was 97 days shy of his 100th birthday.  He served 11 appointments in 44 years for the Western North Carolina Conference, as assistant pastor, senior pastor, district superintendent, and director of the conference council on ministries.  He served as a chaplain in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Arkansas and the European Theater of Operations with the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces, 1943-46.

He was born May 23, 1913, to Jacob Lindsey and Annie Bondurant Lindsey in Leatherwood, Virginia, the oldest of four sons.  He married Frances Ruark Oct. 8, 1939, in ...