McKISSOCK, John Black, Rev (1870-1949)
Assembly memorial minute, 1950
John McKissock was born on 30th March, 1870, in Glasgow, and came to Western Australia in 1908, serving as a home mission agent at Albany and Midland Junction. He was ordained and inducted into the pastoral charge of Albany in 1911. In 1914 he was transferred to New South Wales and inducted into the charge of Kyogle, and in the following year transferred to Mascot, in 1918 to Epping, and in 1919 to Berrigan.
He came to Victoria in 1923, to be inducted into Balmoral on 1st November. He resigned this charge on 31st January, 1925, and was that same year inducted in the pastoral charge of Tongala. After resigning Tongala, for several years he fulfilled home mission appointments at Edenhope, Trentham, and Pakenham, where he was in 1942, before being inducted into Nagambie on 29th July, 1943, which pastorate was resigned on 30th April, 1945. Three months later he was inducted into Murtoa, where he laboured until retirement on 30th June, 1948.
He died suddenly at his home in East Brunswick on Tuesday, 28th June, 1949. To Mrs. McKissock and her daughter the Assembly extends sincere sympathy.
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