jay-darganFormer employee, alum and friend of Asbury Seminary, Javan (Jay) Earl Dargan, passed away on April 21, 2016.  He served as Director of Development from June 1988 – August 2000; Vice President for Advancement from September 2000 – July 2002; Vice President of the Asbury Foundation from August 2002 – April 2005. He then left to serve the Free Methodist Foundation based in Spring Arbor, Mich., and retired December 31, 2008.  Asbury Theological Seminary asked him back part time for one year in 2010 to train others in Advancement. He permanently retired in January of 2011.

Jay was born on April 15, 1941, in Charteris, Quebec, Canada. He was the son of the late Rev. Robert and Edna Dargan, who pastored in the Free Methodist Church in the East Ontario Conference in Canada. Jay was married to Myrtle Margaret (Smith) Dargan on December 21, 1962, in Dallas, Texas. From this union were born Sherilyn Kay (McPherson) in 1965, and Deborah Sue (Anderson) in 1967.  He earned a Master of Religious Education degree (M.R.E.) from Asbury Theological Seminary.

The viewing will be at the Wilmore Free Methodist Church in Wilmore, Ky., on Monday, April 25, from 5:00 to 9:00 P.M. and on Tuesday, 9:30-10:30 A.M. with the funeral following at 10:30 A.M. on Tuesday, April 26.

In lieu of flowers, please consider giving love gifts to the “Jay and Margaret Dargan Endowed Scholarship Fund” at Oakdale Christian Academy, 5801 Beattyville Rd., Jackson, Ky. 41339, or to the “Jay and Margaret Dargan Endowed Scholarship Fund” at Asbury Theological Seminary, 204 N. Lexington, Wilmore, Ky. 40390, or the building fund for the Wilmore Free Methodist Church, 1200 N. Lexington, Wilmore, Ky. 40390.