President
Mrs. Alfred Mashburn, lovingly known as Granny Mashburn, now serves as the President of Leoma Music Company. She assumed this position following the death of her husband in 1992.
General Manager/VP
Vice President and General Manager of Leoma Music, Jimmy Glass is a native of Lawrence County, Tennessee, graduating from Lawrenceburg (Lawrence County) High School. After meeting and marrying Jessie Mashburn, they have attended singing schools, including the Leoma Music School which operated from the late sixties through the seventies as well as the Vaughan Normal in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Glass travel around 30,000 miles each year to various Gospel Singings across the South. They have missed only one National Gospel Singing Convention in thirty-five years! They were instrumental in reviving the Leoma School of Gospel Music in 2005.
Jimmy and Jessie have two children: their son, Jeff, who lives in Lawrenceburg, TN. With his wife, Melinda and four children; Chase, Page, Drew and Cameron, and two step-children, Whitney and Colby; and their daughter, Jennifer, who lives in Leoma, TN. and her two children, Candy and Ethan. He also owns and operates Jim Glass Trucking in Lawrenceburg. Mr. and Mrs. Glass celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary in September of 2007.
Secretary/Treasurer
Jessie Mashburn Glass was born in Lawrence County and graduated from Loretto High School. Her father, Alfred Mashburn, the founder of Leoma Music Company, taught singing schools in many places until he became disabled. Jessie sang alto in the Living Waters Quartet in place of her mother and along side her father for several years. When Jessie’s father, Mr. Mashburn, became very ill, he discussed the Leoma Music Company with Jimmy and Jessie. He asked them to see that it kept on going. They promised Mr. Mashburn that with God’s help they would do their best.
Editor
Dr. Byron Reid is the editor of the Leoma Music Company. Dr. Reid is a graduate of Samford University, and works bi-vocationally as a Pharmacist, as well as his work in music as an editor with Leoma Music. He and his wife, Betty-Marie, are members of Lafayette Missionary Baptist Church, and live on their farm with their two sons, Nathan Stewart Reid and James Isaac Michael Reid, in Macon County, Tennessee.
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