Bowling Green Reavis

Rev. B. G. Reavis Died Sunday 

Rev. Bowling Green Reavis, 82 years old, one of the best know rural pastors in this section of Missouri, died in the Audrain Hospital at Mexico Sunday at 4:00 o’clock.  A year ago he underwent a serious operation and had been in failing health since then, and in the hospital for several weeks.  Surviving him are his wife, two daughters, Miss Barbara Reavis, Bisbee, Ariz., and Mrs. Ed Gamble of Mexico, and a grandson, Reavis Gamble.  Funeral services were conducted Tuesday morning at 10:00 o’clock at the Mexico Christian Church, and burial was made in Lick Creek cemetery at Perry. 

Rev. Reavis had been in the ministry fifty years, most of it in western Illinois and Eastern Missouri.  He had probably preached in more Christian Churches this section than any other living man.  Several of his pastorates were in Monroe County.  He was a second cousin of Rev. W. E. Reavis of Paris.  A man of unlimited energy, until the time of his operation, he often walked across country several miles to fill an appointment when no conveyance was readily available.  He was a powerful speaker and evangelist. 


Source: Darla Henderson, from an obituary collection saved by her grandmother, Frances Kathleen (Scobee) Henderson.