Three days after he went missing during a boating accident, authorities said they found the body of 85-year-old founding pastor of The Chapel on Campus, Donald Tabb, in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday.
The Louisiana preacher was fishing with his friends, Jack Frey, 86, and Pat Anderson, 61, near the mouth of the Mississippi River last Wednesday when his boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico. Authorities told The Advocate that his body was found at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday near the Southwest Pass, some 10 miles from where he was reported missing.
Tabb and his friends, were reportedly fishing on his 27-foot blue aluminum boat when it capsized after a big wave hit the boat about 7 a.m. near South Pass. He disappeared in the water near Port Eads in Plaquemines Parish shortly after the boat started to sink.
In the wake of the confirmation of Tabb’s death, Ben Jones, the Tabb family pastor, told The Advocate: “We know that this body was but a vessel and not the essence of Donald Tabb and that Donald Tabb’s eternal soul and spirit is more alive today than ever in his life.”
An obituary published in The Advocate remembered Tabb as an evangelist, veteran, cowboy and…
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