J. C. Busby

John Claude Busby served as pastor of the Washington church from June 1947 to  December 1952. In 1948 the church built a new pastorium on Poplar Drive on a lot given by Mr. and Mrs. Will Wynne. In 1949 the church paid out in expenditures $18,364.52. The church reported $30,108.60 as grand total gifts for all causes in the associational letter to the Georgia Association.

Biographical notes:

John's first wife was Zona May Briggs, Born: October 01, 1919, in Jackson, TN, Died: August 26, 1997 in McComb, MS, which was John's home town. Their two children, John Chauncey Busby and Zona Anne Busby were born in Washington. John resigned from this church in 1952 and moved to Arcata, CA, then to Wilson, WY, then to McComb, MS, where Zona died, then to Augusta, GA, where he remarried, then died in 1998.