Paul Vernon Galloway
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Paul Vernon Galloway was an American Bishop of The Methodist Church, elected in 1960.
He died 5 August 1990 at the St. John Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 86 and living in Tulsa when he died of cancer. He was survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Boney of Tulsa, his son, Paul Galloway, Jr. of Chicago, and two sisters, both of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Bishop Galloway was a graduate of the Yale Divinity School. He was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1931. Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Rev. Galloway served as a Pastor of nine different churches.
As Bishop, Galloway served in Arkansas and Louisiana. He retired in 1972, but then was called to serve as Bishop of the Houston Episcopal Area for three years, and for one additional year in Louisiana.
Galloway also served as Bishop-in-Residence of the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa. He had pastored that church for the ten years prior to his election to the Episcopacy.
Bishop Galloway also served on the boards of Southern Methodist University and the University of Arkansas. In the 1960's he was involved in integrating the dining rooms at the Arkansas State Capitol and those at the University of Arkansas.
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- Obituary in The New York Times[1]
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