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Newsmakers, April 2011


NAMED: Allen Frazier, associate dean of the Paul R. Carter College of Business Administration at Harding University, Searcy, Ark. Jack Tucci, vice president of academics, Faulkner University, Montgomery, Ala. Anthony Wood, assistant director of River City Ministry, North Little Rock, Ark. Yancey House, board of directors of the Herald of Truth. John Scott, minister of mission effectiveness, and Angela Green and Nancy Sanders, co-executive directors, Christian Care Center, Mesquite, Texas, campus.
NEW ELDERS: Vinton Morgon, Perry church, Bellville, Ohio. Buddy Chaffin, Bill Gillen and Bobby Lane, Jefferson Avenue church, Cookeville, Tenn.
NEW MINISTERS: Richard Bently, Clinton, Okla., church. Steve Blackman, Heritage church, Franklin, Tenn. Aaron Scott, youth minister, College church, Fresno, Calif. Brian Cunningham, campus minister, Brooks Avenue church, Raleigh, N.C.
ANNIVERSARIES: 77th: Roy and Vadus Johnson, Columbus, Miss. 73rd: Walter and Ruth Bryan, Edmond, Okla. 69th: David and Addell Delony, Houston. 65th: Luchin and Dorothy Daugherty, McKinney, Texas; Lloyd and Imogene Grisso, Hanford, Calif.; Joe and Jane Mitchen, Baton Rouge, La. 60th: Charles and Betty Gambill, Cold Spring, Ky. 50th: Gerald and Bettye Casey, Searcy, Ark.
BIRTHDAYS: 102nd: Ila Loree Williams, San Angelo, Texas. 100th: Ruther Gunter, Midland, Texas, formerly of Corsicana, Texas. 90th: Ravenell Young, Prescott Valley, Ariz.
PASSAGES: Rebecca J. Brewer-Todd, 60, Dec. 19, Manchester, Conn., member of the Anadarko, Okla., church and the Manchester church. A.R. Brown, 94, Jan. 24, Searcy, Ark., elder of the Downtown and Westside churches in Searcy. Bessie O. Hardin Chenault, 91, Feb. 6, Austin, Texas, missionary to South Africa for more than 30 years. Joe Stafford, 83, Jan. 27, and Ruth Stafford, 84, Jan. 31, Enid, Okla. Joe Stafford was an Oklahoma Christian University board member and deacon of the North Garland church in Enid, where he and his wife were members.

  • Feedback
    Please add my mother to the Newsmakers. Her name is Dorothy Gann, Leavenworth, KS. She turned 90. I recently learned she was baptized by a traveling COC preacher in a creek in Missouri when she was just 18 and heard the word preached. She is a wonderful Christian woman!
    Elaine Brenneman
    Basehor Church of Christ
    Leavenworth, KS
    USA
    April, 11 2011

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