Roy W. Tremble obit

Roy W. Tremble Obituary

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CHESTERFIELD, IN – Roy W. Tremble, 76, met Jesus face to face in the early morning hours on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 from Northview Health and Living in Anderson following a brief illness.

Roy was born in Joplin, Missouri on September 28, 1946, to George and Lorena (Clark) Tremble. He graduated from Galena High School in Galena, Kansas-Class of 1964 and also attended Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio. He was a member of Villa Baptist Church in Indianapolis. Roy was a skilled and creative photographer. He had helped create the album cover artwork for various southern gospel music groups and was a recipient of several awards for his work. Kindness, gentleness, and being tenderhearted were all attributes of Roy’s journey on this earth. He loved serving His Lord in the genre of southern gospel music performance, starting his life journey at a young age. Please read about Roy’s career in the following article written by Philip Foster of Victory Promotions in 2012.

“If I were to say the name Roy Tremble, just about everyone associated with Southern Gospel Music would think of the Cathedral Quartet. Roy joined the Cathedral Quartet in 1971 and left in 1979 to form the Brothers Trio, along with George Amon Webster and Lorne Matthews.

Back in 1973, Bobby Clark returned to the Cathedrals briefly and persuaded the group to move then-baritone singer Roy Tremble to the tenor slot. By 1974, the Cathedrals consisted of George Younce and Glen Payne anchoring the quartet at bass and lead, baritone George Amon Webster, tenor Roy Tremble and piano player Haskel Cooley.

Long before his Cathedral days, Roy had wanted to sing gospel music ever since he heard Rozie Rozell sing, “Oh What A Savior.” He attended the Stamps School of Gospel Music in 1965 and won a talent contest there.

Tremble has sung with many other groups beside the prestigious Cathedrals. He has sung with such groups as the Weatherfords, the Lancers, the Jubilee Quartet, the Blackwood Quartet, the Heartland Quartet and as mentioned, the Brothers Trio. However, he achieved his fame when he became a member of the Cathedral Quartet in 1971.

George Younce spoke positively of Tremble’s move from baritone to tenor on the Cathedral Reunion DVD. Well, the change must have worked! During that time the Cathedrals won Four Dove awards and had three Grammy nominations. Many speak of this as one of the greatest Cathedral line-ups.

For the last decade or so, Roy Tremble has pursued a solo ministry. In 1995, he rejoined his former group members for the Cathedrals Reunion project performing on the songs “Yesterday”, “He Loves Me”, and “I’m Gonna Shout All Over Heaven.”

“If there ever were dreams, that were lofty and noble, they were my dreams at the start and the hopes for life’s best, were the hopes that I harbored, down deep in my heart. but my dreams turned to ashes, my castles all crumbled, my fortunes turned to loss, so I wrapped it up, in the rags of my life, and laid it at the cross, Something Beautiful, Something Good” words and music by Bill and Gloria Gaither, copyright 1971, Gaither Copyright Management.

Roy vividly remembers when Something Beautiful was pitched to the Cathedrals by Bill Gaither. He never realized that it would someday describe his life.

Shortly after leaving the Cathedrals in 1979, Roy began to see his dreams turn into ashes. He experienced the hardship of losing everything close to him and it affected him both professionally and personally. He experienced anger, bitterness and depression. He knows what it feels like to fail, and to make wrong choices that previously he would have never considered.

But thank God, Roy also experienced the healing power of God’s love and now spends his life singing and testifying about the amazing power of God, to those who have gone through similar circumstances.

I had the privilege of having Roy up for a concert back in the late 90s. I was like a little kid in a candy store when I met him. But to my great amazement, he turned out to be human! To this day, I still run across some person who remembers being at that concert, and who speaks about how much they enjoyed that evening and what a powerful singer Tremble was. I remember having Roy over to my house later, and we sat talking, listening to The Brothers Trio on cassette.

There are a lot of tenors in the Southern Gospel world. There are tenors who seem to scream to reach that high note and there are tenors who can sing, it seems, with little effort.

In my opinion, Roy Tremble is one of those tenors. Roy has a softness that almost fools you when you hear him. Yet, he can reach those high notes with ease! One of my favorite songs that Roy sings was written by none other than George Younce, “Yesterday.” Roy takes the lead on the second verse, and as they say, “he owns it.” You can find that song on You Tube, just type in Roy Tremble Intro/Yesterday-The Cathedrals.

For the last 16 years now, Roy continues to travel, singing and sharing the good news of the Lord Jesus. Roy and his wife of 12 years, Carolyn, live in Chesterfield Indiana.”

 

Survivors:

Wife-Carolyn (Martin) Tremble-married January 12, 2001

Son-Rob Tremble-Akron, Ohio

Daughter-Sara Tremble Wills-Akron, Ohio

4 Grandchildren

Several great-grandchildren

Sisters-in-law-Joyce (David) Miller, Ona (Tim) Shelton and Lanetta (Bob) Eastman all of Alexandria

Brother-in-law-Jim (Alberta) Martin-Alexandria

Several nieces and nephews