Tom J. Logue Ph.D.
October 8, 1921 - March 6, 2010
Tom J. Logue, Ph.D., passed from this life on March 06, 2010. He was preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Ethel Louise Garrott Logue; sons Tommy Jasper Logue, Jr. and John William Logue; parents, Thomas and Maggie Logue of Waco, Texas; brothers, Dr. Joseph Logue of Denton, Texas and Judge Bill Logue of Waco, Texas; sisters, Dorothy Rush of Waco, Texas and Elizabeth Hightower of Livingston, Texas.
Surviving family members are daughter Louise Logue of Little Rock; son Tim Logue and wife Gina Baratta of Hillsborough, North Carolina; granddaughter, Amy Tilson Buckley and husband Robert of Little Rock; sister, Helen Carll of Bloomington, Indiana and many adoring nieces and nephews.
Logue served with the 102nd General Hospital in Europe during WWII. He received his BA and MA from Baylor University, and his BD and Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Logue served as citywide Baptist Student Director for Memphis, Tennessee from 1951-1955 and as State Director of Baptist Student Union of Arkansas from 1955-1987. Logue served as founding coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas from 1991-2005.
After retirement from student work, Logue was a frequent conference and retreat speaker and the author of a book on grief, God Could You Talk a Little Louder? The story traces his family’s pilgrimage through the lingering illness and death of his eldest son, Tommy.
Logue received the Brooks Hayes Memorial Christian Citizenship Award in 1990 for his selfless service as a devoted Christian leader in Arkansas. Tom’s ministry to untold hundreds and thousands of Arkansas college students on campuses all over the state has been described as a worthy model for all believers.
During Logue’s tenure as Director of the Student Department of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, new Baptist Student Unions were established on more than a dozen college campuses, Baptist Student Centers were built on twelve campuses and two centers were enlarged.
Logue’s proudest moment however came when 400 students attending the annual Baptist Student Union Convention in Jonesboro during the Central High School racial crisis, passed, with only one dissenting vote, a resolution that said, “We believe that the Christian position in the matter of race relations includes the teaching and example of Jesus regarding the equal worth of all individuals…and abstaining from and discouraging violence in the settlement of any differences.”
A private burial service will be held at Forest Hills Memorial Park. A celebration of Tom’s life will take place at Second Baptist Church, 8th and Scott in downtown Little Rock, Tuesday March 9th at 1:30 p.m.. The family will receive friends and visitors from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Monday evening at Roller Chenal Funeral Home (224-8300).
Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers: Dickie Boyles, Windy Burke, Jim Caldwell, Darrell Coleman, Gerald Cound, William Echols, Elmer Goble, Winston Hardman, Jamie Jones, Jack Kimbrell, Frank Martin, Buddy Melton and Reza Mobarak.
Memorials may be made to Second Baptist Church, 222 East 8th St. Little Rock, Arkansas 72202, UAMS Family Home, 4300 W. Markham, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, Central Arkansas Chapter of Muscular Dystrophy Association, 204 Executive Court, Suite 208, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, and Heifer International, 1 World Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202.
If you would like to leave a message for Louise or Tim, the following link provides an opportunity to do so. (You will have to cut and paste in a new browser address window.)
http://www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/services.asp?locid=17&page=odetail&id=19718
God is good!
From Cindy Rush:
ReplyDeleteTom asked that this poem be read as a prayer at his service today.
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
e.e. cummings
I new a very different Tom. He'd tell you you were his best friend one minute and stab you in the back the next. Without going into details, he would take advantage of someone and discard them when he was done using them. He destroyed my life.
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