August 26, 2002
___ Mark Ouimette is the new head of the department of geological sciences and director of the environmental management program at Hardin-Simmons University. Ouimette joined the HSU faculty in 1995 and is an associate professor of geology.
___Anniversaries
___ First Church in Morgan, 125th, Aug. 11. Kevin Miles is pastor.
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| GLADYS WATT (second from left) recently was honored for four years of perfect Sunday School attendance at Cliff Temple Church in Dallas. The 90-year-old also is president of the Faithful Sunday School Class. She is pictured with Sunday School classmates Gladys Barron, Faynell Hammett and Frances Hamrick. She has been a member at Cliff Temple since 1931. Robert Schmucker is pastor. |
___ Wayne McAfee, 15th, as minister to students at the Oaks Church in Grand Prairie.
___ Lawler Church in Florence, 125th, Sept. 21. The evening will recount the church's history beginning at 7 p.m. Historical information and photographs are sought. The church moved to the Lawler School House in 1913 and was known as the Center Point Church of Christ prior to taking its current name. Church records from 1917 to 1946 are missing. Anyone with information is asked to call (254) 793-3861 or (254) 526-8613. Roy Smith is pastor.
___ First Church in Bloomington, 90th, Sept. 22. Marcos Gohlke is pastor.
___ Parkway Church in Houston, 25th, Sept. 22. A dinner and singing will follow the morning service. Elbert White is pastor.
___Retiring
___ David Rowland, as associate pastor at First Church in College Station, July 31. He served the church more than 36 years and was in the ministry 42 years.
___ Robert Graham, as pastor of Field Street Church in Cleburne, Sept. 8. He has been pastor of the church 28 years and in the ministry 43 years. A special service and reception will honor him Sept. 8 beginning at 6 p.m.
___Events
___ A "Day of Rembrance" is scheduled for Sept. 11 in Cedar Hill at 7 p.m at the Valley Ridge Amphitheater. In addition to speeches by the city's mayor and police chief, Jerry Watters, minister of music at Cedar Heights Church in Cedar Hill, will conduct a community choir. A color guard and youth drama team also will participate.
___Deaths
___ Zelma Hallock, 86, Aug. 12 in Norman, Okla. Hallock, an emeritus Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil, was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board in 1942. She worked as a professor of social work at the University of Rio de Janeiro and at the Baptist Institute for Religious Education. She also was interim Woman's Missionary Union executive secretary for the Carioca Baptist State Convention. Her work with impoverished women and their infant children at the Casa da Amizade was featured in Newsweek magazine. She and her husband, Edgar, retired from missionary service in 1986. She was inducted into the University of Oklahoma's School of Social Work Hall of Honor in 1997. She was preceded in death by her husband. She is survived by her brothers, Edsel and Harry Curnutt; daughters, Virjama Lassiter and Charlotte Greenhaw; sons, Eddy and Jack; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
___ William Walker II, 79, Aug. 15 in Tyler. Walker, an emeritus Southern Baptist missionary to Japan, was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board in 1949. He was an evangelist in Oita, Fukuoka and Kochi before retirement in 1988. Prior to his missionary appointment, he was pastor of churches in Hunt County and Lindale. He is survived by his wife, Mary; daughter, Carol Smith; sons, Bill III and Charlie; and six grandchildren.
___ Harold Ellis, 59, Aug. 15 in Belton. An ordained minister and a deacon at First Church in Belton, Ellis had been active in prison ministry since 1981, when he began working with the Bill Glass Prison Ministry. He founded JAIL ministry in Belton in 1985. He served as chairman of the Texas Baptist Men's criminal justice committee from 1991 to 1993. He had been honored with numerous awards for his ministry to inmates and their families, including being presented with the National Sheriff's Association award of Chaplain of the Year this past June. He is survived by his wife, Sharon; son, Barton; daughter, Michelle Kimery; mother, Louise Ellis; sister, Cheryl Fox; and two granddaughters.
___ Elsie Gray, Aug. 20 in Fort Worth of complications related to Parkinson's disease. Her husband, Jack, is a retired Texas pastor and educator. At Gambrell Street Church in Fort Worth, she served in many capacities, but was best known for her roasts of the church staff at their anniversary celebrations and her fried chicken and homemade ice cream at church dinners. She is survived by her husband; daughters, Noralyn Carpenter and Kristen Desbien; and one granddaughter.
___Licensed
___ Jake Porter to the ministry at First Church in Mont Belvieu June 30.
___Ordained
___ Keith Kelley as a deacon at Rosedale Church in Beaumont.
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