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Airdrie Clarkston Parish Church: Catherine Adams (30), Mary Booth (30), Joy Codona (40), Archibald Easton (35), Elizabeth Kennedy (30), Samuel Kennedy (25), Margaret MacFall (30), Arthur Main (60), Isobel Main (30), Colin McKay (25), John Robertson (50), Barbara Sefton (30) and Campbell Sefton (35)

Airdrie The New Wellwynd Parish Church: Robert Kinniburgh (40 as Church Officer)

Bellshill West Parish Church: Ann Fairclough (35 years as Elder and service as Sunday School Superintendent), David Foye (31 and service as Boy’s Brigade Captain), Steven Foye (30), Thea Hamilton (31), Helen Horn (36), Janey Kennedy (30) and Martha Rodger (36 years as Elder and service as a Safeguarding Co-ordinator)

Biggar Parish Church: Sheila Millar (37)

Blackbraes and Shieldhill Parish Church: Henrietta Caulder (28 years as Elder and service as a Sunday School Teacher), Mary Conn (28 years as Elder and service as a Sunday School Teacher), James Currie (46 years as Session Clerk and service as Property Convener), Willian McKinnon (41 years as Elder and service as Beadle), John Pearce (34) and Elsie Smith (28 years as Elder and service as a Sunday School Teacher)

Blantyre Livingstone Memorial Parish Church: Margaret Calder (34), William Calder (34 years as Elder and 37 years’ service as Treasurer), Jean Gray (28), Alison Hutcheson (28 years as Sunday School Leader), Iain McMillan (28) and Christine Miller (50 years as Sunday School Leader)

Bo’ness Old Parish Church: Eleanor Dunsmore (33), Eric Gilfillan (51), Elizabeth Henderson (31), Robert Kirk (34). Hugh McKenna (51), Joan Purdie (31), Kenneth Rae (41) and Davina Reid (31) Bonnybridge St Helen’s Parish Church: Thomas Rintoul (45 years as Elder and service as Session Clerk)

Cambusbarron The Bruce Memorial: Alan Prentice (56) and Janet Strang (30)

Cambusnethan Old and Morningside Parish Church: Irene Anderson (31) and Shona McLeish (31)

Carnwath Parish Church: Anne Cochrane (25), Janette Forrest (25), Betty McLeod (25), William McLeod (32) and Alice Stewart (30) Chapelhall Parish Church: Thomas Gibb (47), Marion Low (42), Andrew McLean (52) and James Morrison (46)

Coatbridge Middle Parish Church: Donald Craig (26), Marion Hosie (26), Brian Martin (26), Christina Martin (30), Marjorie McIntosh (27 years as Sunday School Superintendent) and Margaret McNicol (29)

Coatbridge New St Andrews Parish Church: Ann Collinson (30), Douglas Crichton (30), Samuel Finnigan (30) and Elizabeth Russell (30) Coatbridge Townhead Parish Church: Janice Lloyd (27) and John Morris (28)

Dunipace Parish Church: Anne Blair (31), Sandra Cook (31), David Faulds (30 as Organist and Music Leader), Barbara Fulford (33 as Elder and service as Children’s Ministry Leader), Anne Marchant (30), David Reynolds (31) and Robert (Gregor) Wilson (31)

East Kilbride Claremont Parish Church: Helen Mary Cuthbertson (30), Edith Gordon (35), Thomas Gordon (34), Douglas Johnston (32), Nancy MacFadyen (37), Michael Matthew (32), Mary McKinlay (30), Steven Preston (32) and Anna Weir (30 years as Elder and service to ministry to the deaf)

East Kilbride West Parish Church: Lilian Baillie (28), Laura Fleming (25), Alexander Fraser (28), David Kendall (32), Allan Thomson (36) and Margery Tordzro (26)

Glasgow Eastwood: Jean Allan (35), Arthur Blakes (31), Alistair Dobbie (29), Elizabeth Dobbs (27), Anne Glen (27), Alex Hodge (40+), Margaret Marshall (28), Isabel McCormick (27), Maureen McKillop (29), Alastair McLachlan (26), Anne Middleton (40), Anne Maree Smith (28), Douglas Smith (40), John Smith (42)

Linda Smith (26), Hawthorn Stewart (60) and Netta Stewart (44) Glasgow Langside: Janette Hutchinson (30) and Margaret Watson (30) Grangemouth Zetland Parish Church: Annie Farquhar (30), Irene Glassey (30), Joan Hermse (40), Agnes Hunter (30), Julia Marshall (30), Elspeth Shepherd (30), Janette Simpson (30), Margaret Smith MBE (40) and Woodford Speirs (30)

Haggs Parish Church: Marion Campbell (28 years as Elder and 37 years as treasurer), Lorna Duncan (31 years as Elder and 39 years as a reader), John Fenney (32 years as Boys’ Brigade Officer), Ernest Firth (35 years as Elder and 25 years as Boys’ Brigade Captain), Elizabeth Heeps (39 years as Girls’ Brigade Officer), Ernest Martin (28 years as Elder and 30 years as property convener), Moira Martin (39), Jean McCheyne (26), Jean Proffit (28 years as Elder and 40 years as Girls’ Brigade Officer), Susan Storrar (26), Morag Wales (28 years as Boys’ Brigade Officer) and Nan Young (26)

Hamilton Cadzow Parish Church: Joyce Brain (30), John McCullon (40), Eleanor Rae (30), Hamish Wilson (60) and Malcolm Young (30) Hamilton Hillhouse Parish Church: Sam Benson (60), Margaret Gray (30), Billy Thomson (50) and Lillian Thomson (30)

Hamilton Old Parish Church: Margaret Baird (29), Campbell Barr (49), Sandra Craig (39), William Craig (29), Frank Gardiner (50), Muriel Gilroy (29), Marilyn Henderson (30), Eleanor Hunter (30), Helen McGreevy (29), Alan McMillan (29) William Nelson (39), George Robertson (49) Ian Samson (39) and Alex Stoddart (50)

Hamilton St John’s Parish Church: Bill Howson (53), Robert Jackson (52), Doug Leslie (44), Christine Martyn (30), Christine McArthur (30), Jack McIntyre (30), Eliot Soutter (52) and John Weir (44)

Larkhall New Parish Church: Fay Allan (30), Robert Allan (50 years as Elder and Treasurer), Vi Elder (30), John Gilroy (30), Ivan Harvie (30), Anne Kean (30 years as Elder and GDPR Officer), Mavis Law (30 years as Elder and service as Flower Convener), Davina Revie (40 years as Elder and service as Prayer Partnership Representative), Jim Richardson (40) and Marion Woodley (30)

Larkhall Trinity Parish Church: Frances Gilmour (34), Wilma Gilmour (34), George Gould (32), Hugh McGregor (50 years as Elder and service as Boy’s Brigade Officer), Nancy Reid (34) and Robert Whitelaw (39)

Lanark Greyfriars Parish Church: Carolyn Graham (34), Elizabeth Ivison (34), Lilias Tennant (32) and Willian Tennant (32)

Law Parish Church: Ellen Young (40)

Logie: Elizabeth Crozier (45), Graham Eadie (40), Edwin Gray (30), Brenda Smith (40) and Gordon Smith (34)

Musselburgh St Clement’s and St Ninian’s: Charles Bowler (44), Ivor Highley (62) and James Steedman (60)

Newarthill Parish Church: Jane Bryce (30) and Duncan McKay (30 years as Church Organist)

Polmont Old Parish Church: Margaret Day (69 years in the choir) and Ian W McLean (39 years as Elder and 37 years as Session Clerk) Stenhouse and Carron Parish Church: Robin Bell (34 years as Church Organist), Alan Corbett (30), Andrea Dunkin (36 years in the Choir), Irene Dunkin (43), Kate Haston (34 years as Elder and 36 years in the choir), Catherine Hayworth (30), Wendy McGill (43), Elizabeth Paley (43), Susan Patrick (34), Morag Patterson (43), Mhairi Philip (30), Alex Smith (43), June Smith (34 years in the choir and 36 years on the congregational board), Ray Smith (44), Margaret Stewart (34), Liz Storey (30 years on congregational board) and Andrew Thomson (43)

Uddingston Old Parish Church: Edna Hume (40) and Alison MacAuslane (40)

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