Ted Hightower

Ted Hightower in 1962

Ted Hightower (born November 5, 1906 in Little Oak, Pike County; died August 26, 1985 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) was a methodist minister and author.

Hightower was the son of Robert Gregory and Mattie Price Hightower. He served the United Methodist Church's North Alabama Conference, Memphis Conference and Louisville Conference from 1927 until his retirement in May 1976. His longest tenure was 17 years with St Paul United Methodist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He married Ivan Jo Williams and had two children, Ruth and Ted Jr.

While serving in western Jefferson County in 1940, Hightower admonished the Fairfield City Council to take action against police officers involved in the beating and shooting of O. D. Henderson, a TCI worker arrested for knocking a white man to the ground.

Hightower also served in various leadership positions in the Methodist church and wrote a book entitled The Gospel According to Jesus.

Hightower was widowed in 1981 and remarried late in life. He died in 1985 and was survived by his second wife, Margaret as well as his two children, six grandsons and two great-grandsons.

References

• "'Handcuff Murder' Of Jailed Man Had Been 'Whitewashed'" (May 25, 1940) Pittsburgh Courier
• "Ted Hightower, retired Methodist minister, dies." (August 26, 1985) Daily News. Bowling Green, Kentucky. p. 2