Louise Sutton, 85, of Amarillo died Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Billy Nickell, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Helphrey Cemetery in Taneyville, Mo., at a later date. Local arrangements are by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Louise Adair Sutton was born May 28, 1924, in Uvalde to Austin Wade Adair and Abby Olivia Yancey Adair. She had one older brother, A.G. Adair, and one younger brother, Robert Merwin "Bob" Adair.
She was a 1941 graduate of Camp Wood High School. She accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord in a tent revival held in Uvalde by Brother Johnny Modrick, a minister of the Apostolic Faith Movement, when she was 13 years old. She almost immediately felt a calling to the ministry and formally started her ministry at the age of 17.
She married Sherman Sutton of Mountain Grove, Mo., on Sept. 30, 1941, in Uvalde. They set out in the ministry together. They worked as gospel workers in revivals, in camp meetings, in convocations, in youth camps, in daily vacation Bible schools, pastoring churches and etc. until their first son, Garry Sherman Sutton was born on April 21, 1948.
They purchased a home in Uvalde and Louise worked as a secretary for the Smith Ortho Co. and Sherman worked as a mechanic and propane truck delivery driver in Uvalde. A second son was born to Louise and Sherman Sutton of May 14, 1949.
They started having church services in their home while in Uvalde. In 1954, they accepted a pastorate in Enid, Okla., and re-entered the ministry full time. Louise also pastured churches in Amarillo, Arnett, Okla., Spearman, Snyder, Stockton, Calif., and Roswell, N.M.
Louise was an active church pastor for 58 years working with the people of the Apostolic Faith Movement. Louise was a faculty member of the Apostolic Faith Bible College in Baxter Springs, Kan., in the late '60s and early '70s and taught Bible Doctrine (Theology) and Evangelism.
She published a four-volume series on Bible Doctrine as a result of her teaching with the Bible College and they are still used in churches today. When she was forced to quit pastoring, she felt the need to continue to minister to others by phone, letter, and particularly by faithfully sending cards weekly to anyone who was in need of healing, comfort, or encouragement in any way for any reason.
She remained faithful to this correspondence ministry until just the past few months when she could no longer see well enough or write well enough to continue. She still ministered to many on the telephone after having to discontinue her card ministry. She was a faithful servant of the Lord for 72 years.
The day Louise passed away she made the statement that she was most thankful that both her sons were serving the Lord and were ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Louise was also a longtime employee of the Contel Telephone Co. which became GTE Telephone Co. and then Verison Telephone Co. She retired from Verison in the late 1980s.
Louise was preceded in death by her parents; both her brothers; and her husband, Sherman Sutton, who passed away on Dec. 28, 1995.
Survivors include two sons, Garry Sherman Sutton and wife Darla of Amarillo and Austin Lee Sutton and wife Shirley of Taneyville, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Angla Nolene Richardson and husband Fred of Orange Grove, Garry Sherman Sutton Jr. and wife LaRinda of Cyril, Okla., James Neal Cahill, Cynthia Renea Johnson, both of Amarillo, Sharlynda Kay Sutton of Taneyville, Andy Lee Sutton and wife Keri of Ozark, Mo., Russell Ball and wife Kristi of Joplin, Mo., and Mike Ellibee and wife Keisha of Lubbock; 22 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews, cousins and a host of friends and many brothers and sisters of the Family of God.
Sign the online guest book at www.coxlagrone.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 21, 2009
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Billy Nickell, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Helphrey Cemetery in Taneyville, Mo., at a later date. Local arrangements are by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Louise Adair Sutton was born May 28, 1924, in Uvalde to Austin Wade Adair and Abby Olivia Yancey Adair. She had one older brother, A.G. Adair, and one younger brother, Robert Merwin "Bob" Adair.
She was a 1941 graduate of Camp Wood High School. She accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord in a tent revival held in Uvalde by Brother Johnny Modrick, a minister of the Apostolic Faith Movement, when she was 13 years old. She almost immediately felt a calling to the ministry and formally started her ministry at the age of 17.
She married Sherman Sutton of Mountain Grove, Mo., on Sept. 30, 1941, in Uvalde. They set out in the ministry together. They worked as gospel workers in revivals, in camp meetings, in convocations, in youth camps, in daily vacation Bible schools, pastoring churches and etc. until their first son, Garry Sherman Sutton was born on April 21, 1948.
They purchased a home in Uvalde and Louise worked as a secretary for the Smith Ortho Co. and Sherman worked as a mechanic and propane truck delivery driver in Uvalde. A second son was born to Louise and Sherman Sutton of May 14, 1949.
They started having church services in their home while in Uvalde. In 1954, they accepted a pastorate in Enid, Okla., and re-entered the ministry full time. Louise also pastured churches in Amarillo, Arnett, Okla., Spearman, Snyder, Stockton, Calif., and Roswell, N.M.
Louise was an active church pastor for 58 years working with the people of the Apostolic Faith Movement. Louise was a faculty member of the Apostolic Faith Bible College in Baxter Springs, Kan., in the late '60s and early '70s and taught Bible Doctrine (Theology) and Evangelism.
She published a four-volume series on Bible Doctrine as a result of her teaching with the Bible College and they are still used in churches today. When she was forced to quit pastoring, she felt the need to continue to minister to others by phone, letter, and particularly by faithfully sending cards weekly to anyone who was in need of healing, comfort, or encouragement in any way for any reason.
She remained faithful to this correspondence ministry until just the past few months when she could no longer see well enough or write well enough to continue. She still ministered to many on the telephone after having to discontinue her card ministry. She was a faithful servant of the Lord for 72 years.
The day Louise passed away she made the statement that she was most thankful that both her sons were serving the Lord and were ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Louise was also a longtime employee of the Contel Telephone Co. which became GTE Telephone Co. and then Verison Telephone Co. She retired from Verison in the late 1980s.
Louise was preceded in death by her parents; both her brothers; and her husband, Sherman Sutton, who passed away on Dec. 28, 1995.
Survivors include two sons, Garry Sherman Sutton and wife Darla of Amarillo and Austin Lee Sutton and wife Shirley of Taneyville, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Angla Nolene Richardson and husband Fred of Orange Grove, Garry Sherman Sutton Jr. and wife LaRinda of Cyril, Okla., James Neal Cahill, Cynthia Renea Johnson, both of Amarillo, Sharlynda Kay Sutton of Taneyville, Andy Lee Sutton and wife Keri of Ozark, Mo., Russell Ball and wife Kristi of Joplin, Mo., and Mike Ellibee and wife Keisha of Lubbock; 22 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews, cousins and a host of friends and many brothers and sisters of the Family of God.
Sign the online guest book at www.coxlagrone.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 21, 2009
Louise Sutton, 85, of Amarillo died Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Billy Nickell, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Helphrey Cemetery in Taneyville, Mo., at a later date. Local arrangements are by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Louise Adair Sutton was born May 28, 1924, in Uvalde to Austin Wade Adair and Abby Olivia Yancey Adair. She had one older brother, A.G. Adair, and one younger brother, Robert Merwin "Bob" Adair.
She was a 1941 graduate of Camp Wood High School. She accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord in a tent revival held in Uvalde by Brother Johnny Modrick, a minister of the Apostolic Faith Movement, when she was 13 years old. She almost immediately felt a calling to the ministry and formally started her ministry at the age of 17.
She married Sherman Sutton of Mountain Grove, Mo., on Sept. 30, 1941, in Uvalde. They set out in the ministry together. They worked as gospel workers in revivals, in camp meetings, in convocations, in youth camps, in daily vacation Bible schools, pastoring churches and etc. until their first son, Garry Sherman Sutton was born on April 21, 1948.
They purchased a home in Uvalde and Louise worked as a secretary for the Smith Ortho Co. and Sherman worked as a mechanic and propane truck delivery driver in Uvalde. A second son was born to Louise and Sherman Sutton of May 14, 1949.
They started having church services in their home while in Uvalde. In 1954, they accepted a pastorate in Enid, Okla., and re-entered the ministry full time. Louise also pastured churches in Amarillo, Arnett, Okla., Spearman, Snyder, Stockton, Calif., and Roswell, N.M.
Louise was an active church pastor for 58 years working with the people of the Apostolic Faith Movement. Louise was a faculty member of the Apostolic Faith Bible College in Baxter Springs, Kan., in the late '60s and early '70s and taught Bible Doctrine (Theology) and Evangelism.
She published a four-volume series on Bible Doctrine as a result of her teaching with the Bible College and they are still used in churches today. When she was forced to quit pastoring, she felt the need to continue to minister to others by phone, letter, and particularly by faithfully sending cards weekly to anyone who was in need of healing, comfort, or encouragement in any way for any reason.
She remained faithful to this correspondence ministry until just the past few months when she could no longer see well enough or write well enough to continue. She still ministered to many on the telephone after having to discontinue her card ministry. She was a faithful servant of the Lord for 72 years.
The day Louise passed away she made the statement that she was most thankful that both her sons were serving the Lord and were ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Louise was also a longtime employee of the Contel Telephone Co. which became GTE Telephone Co. and then Verison Telephone Co. She retired from Verison in the late 1980s.
Louise was preceded in death by her parents; both her brothers; and her husband, Sherman Sutton, who passed away on Dec. 28, 1995.
Survivors include two sons, Garry Sherman Sutton and wife Darla of Amarillo and Austin Lee Sutton and wife Shirley of Taneyville, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Angla Nolene Richardson and husband Fred of Orange Grove, Garry Sherman Sutton Jr. and wife LaRinda of Cyril, Okla., James Neal Cahill, Cynthia Renea Johnson, both of Amarillo, Sharlynda Kay Sutton of Taneyville, Andy Lee Sutton and wife Keri of Ozark, Mo., Russell Ball and wife Kristi of Joplin, Mo., and Mike Ellibee and wife Keisha of Lubbock; 22 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews, cousins and a host of friends and many brothers and sisters of the Family of God.
Sign the online guest book at www.coxlagrone.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 21, 2009
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Billy Nickell, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Helphrey Cemetery in Taneyville, Mo., at a later date. Local arrangements are by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Louise Adair Sutton was born May 28, 1924, in Uvalde to Austin Wade Adair and Abby Olivia Yancey Adair. She had one older brother, A.G. Adair, and one younger brother, Robert Merwin "Bob" Adair.
She was a 1941 graduate of Camp Wood High School. She accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord in a tent revival held in Uvalde by Brother Johnny Modrick, a minister of the Apostolic Faith Movement, when she was 13 years old. She almost immediately felt a calling to the ministry and formally started her ministry at the age of 17.
She married Sherman Sutton of Mountain Grove, Mo., on Sept. 30, 1941, in Uvalde. They set out in the ministry together. They worked as gospel workers in revivals, in camp meetings, in convocations, in youth camps, in daily vacation Bible schools, pastoring churches and etc. until their first son, Garry Sherman Sutton was born on April 21, 1948.
They purchased a home in Uvalde and Louise worked as a secretary for the Smith Ortho Co. and Sherman worked as a mechanic and propane truck delivery driver in Uvalde. A second son was born to Louise and Sherman Sutton of May 14, 1949.
They started having church services in their home while in Uvalde. In 1954, they accepted a pastorate in Enid, Okla., and re-entered the ministry full time. Louise also pastured churches in Amarillo, Arnett, Okla., Spearman, Snyder, Stockton, Calif., and Roswell, N.M.
Louise was an active church pastor for 58 years working with the people of the Apostolic Faith Movement. Louise was a faculty member of the Apostolic Faith Bible College in Baxter Springs, Kan., in the late '60s and early '70s and taught Bible Doctrine (Theology) and Evangelism.
She published a four-volume series on Bible Doctrine as a result of her teaching with the Bible College and they are still used in churches today. When she was forced to quit pastoring, she felt the need to continue to minister to others by phone, letter, and particularly by faithfully sending cards weekly to anyone who was in need of healing, comfort, or encouragement in any way for any reason.
She remained faithful to this correspondence ministry until just the past few months when she could no longer see well enough or write well enough to continue. She still ministered to many on the telephone after having to discontinue her card ministry. She was a faithful servant of the Lord for 72 years.
The day Louise passed away she made the statement that she was most thankful that both her sons were serving the Lord and were ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Louise was also a longtime employee of the Contel Telephone Co. which became GTE Telephone Co. and then Verison Telephone Co. She retired from Verison in the late 1980s.
Louise was preceded in death by her parents; both her brothers; and her husband, Sherman Sutton, who passed away on Dec. 28, 1995.
Survivors include two sons, Garry Sherman Sutton and wife Darla of Amarillo and Austin Lee Sutton and wife Shirley of Taneyville, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Angla Nolene Richardson and husband Fred of Orange Grove, Garry Sherman Sutton Jr. and wife LaRinda of Cyril, Okla., James Neal Cahill, Cynthia Renea Johnson, both of Amarillo, Sharlynda Kay Sutton of Taneyville, Andy Lee Sutton and wife Keri of Ozark, Mo., Russell Ball and wife Kristi of Joplin, Mo., and Mike Ellibee and wife Keisha of Lubbock; 22 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews, cousins and a host of friends and many brothers and sisters of the Family of God.
Sign the online guest book at www.coxlagrone.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 21, 2009
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