Funeral services for Cromwell resident Rev. Andrew Estep are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. today at the New Life Church in Wewoka with Rev. Larry Chesser Jr. officiating. Interment is to follow at Little Cemetery under the direction of Williamson Funeral Home.
Mr. Estep died Monday, April 16, 2007 in Holdenville at the age of 95. He was born May 8, 1911 in Arkansas to Jim and Emm Carrigan Estep. He came to Oklahoma with his family when he was only two years old and they settled in the Cromwell area, where he attended school.
At 23, he married Eva Shankles and they also made their home in Cromwell and he worked for Carter Oil Company.
As a young man he entered the ministry and was ordained through the Pentecostal Holiness Church. He pastored churches in Wewoka, Holdenville, Henryetta, Pauls Valley, Ponca City, Fox, Kingston, Wetumka and Cromwell. In the early 1940's Estep and his wife began a life of a traveling evangelist. They held revival meetings all across the Midwest for several years.
He began pastoring again and never lost his passion for evangelism. Estep served as pastor and evangelist some 63 years and was the oldest ordained minister in his conference.
Estep enjoyed watching boxing and rodeos on television and spending time with his family.
His wife, six brothers and four sisters preceded him in death.
Surviving are two children, Rosetta Walton of Wetumka and Timothy Estep of Post Falls, Idaho, ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers for the services will be Bob Estep, Eugene Estep, Mark Gaddy, Silas Gaddy, Jimmy Upton and Ronnie Upton.
Mr. Estep died Monday, April 16, 2007 in Holdenville at the age of 95. He was born May 8, 1911 in Arkansas to Jim and Emm Carrigan Estep. He came to Oklahoma with his family when he was only two years old and they settled in the Cromwell area, where he attended school.
At 23, he married Eva Shankles and they also made their home in Cromwell and he worked for Carter Oil Company.
As a young man he entered the ministry and was ordained through the Pentecostal Holiness Church. He pastored churches in Wewoka, Holdenville, Henryetta, Pauls Valley, Ponca City, Fox, Kingston, Wetumka and Cromwell. In the early 1940's Estep and his wife began a life of a traveling evangelist. They held revival meetings all across the Midwest for several years.
He began pastoring again and never lost his passion for evangelism. Estep served as pastor and evangelist some 63 years and was the oldest ordained minister in his conference.
Estep enjoyed watching boxing and rodeos on television and spending time with his family.
His wife, six brothers and four sisters preceded him in death.
Surviving are two children, Rosetta Walton of Wetumka and Timothy Estep of Post Falls, Idaho, ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers for the services will be Bob Estep, Eugene Estep, Mark Gaddy, Silas Gaddy, Jimmy Upton and Ronnie Upton.
Funeral services for Cromwell resident Rev. Andrew Estep are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. today at the New Life Church in Wewoka with Rev. Larry Chesser Jr. officiating. Interment is to follow at Little Cemetery under the direction of Williamson Funeral Home.
Mr. Estep died Monday, April 16, 2007 in Holdenville at the age of 95. He was born May 8, 1911 in Arkansas to Jim and Emm Carrigan Estep. He came to Oklahoma with his family when he was only two years old and they settled in the Cromwell area, where he attended school.
At 23, he married Eva Shankles and they also made their home in Cromwell and he worked for Carter Oil Company.
As a young man he entered the ministry and was ordained through the Pentecostal Holiness Church. He pastored churches in Wewoka, Holdenville, Henryetta, Pauls Valley, Ponca City, Fox, Kingston, Wetumka and Cromwell. In the early 1940's Estep and his wife began a life of a traveling evangelist. They held revival meetings all across the Midwest for several years.
He began pastoring again and never lost his passion for evangelism. Estep served as pastor and evangelist some 63 years and was the oldest ordained minister in his conference.
Estep enjoyed watching boxing and rodeos on television and spending time with his family.
His wife, six brothers and four sisters preceded him in death.
Surviving are two children, Rosetta Walton of Wetumka and Timothy Estep of Post Falls, Idaho, ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers for the services will be Bob Estep, Eugene Estep, Mark Gaddy, Silas Gaddy, Jimmy Upton and Ronnie Upton.
Mr. Estep died Monday, April 16, 2007 in Holdenville at the age of 95. He was born May 8, 1911 in Arkansas to Jim and Emm Carrigan Estep. He came to Oklahoma with his family when he was only two years old and they settled in the Cromwell area, where he attended school.
At 23, he married Eva Shankles and they also made their home in Cromwell and he worked for Carter Oil Company.
As a young man he entered the ministry and was ordained through the Pentecostal Holiness Church. He pastored churches in Wewoka, Holdenville, Henryetta, Pauls Valley, Ponca City, Fox, Kingston, Wetumka and Cromwell. In the early 1940's Estep and his wife began a life of a traveling evangelist. They held revival meetings all across the Midwest for several years.
He began pastoring again and never lost his passion for evangelism. Estep served as pastor and evangelist some 63 years and was the oldest ordained minister in his conference.
Estep enjoyed watching boxing and rodeos on television and spending time with his family.
His wife, six brothers and four sisters preceded him in death.
Surviving are two children, Rosetta Walton of Wetumka and Timothy Estep of Post Falls, Idaho, ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers for the services will be Bob Estep, Eugene Estep, Mark Gaddy, Silas Gaddy, Jimmy Upton and Ronnie Upton.
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