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Lucile Farmer, a missionary for many years in Ecuador,
died December 20, 1997. She was born in New Mexico, SW USA,
and joined the church in the capital city of that state. After
she grew up, a marriage of eight years gave her four children.
She and her children worked in a home missions church in
Superior, Wyoming. She worked for a year at Pentecostal Bible
Institute in Tupelo, Mississippi, as dietician and kitchen
supervisor. Later, she cared for her aging mother back in New
Mexico. In 1963, she was appointed as missionary to Equador,
where she pioneered several churches. Later, she went into
Israel, her visa given by Golda Mier. While in Israel, she
developed Parkinson's disease, which she then suffered from
for eighteen years until her death 20 December 1997. During
those last eighteen years, she settled in Hood River, Oregon,
NW USA, and helped found the church in that city. She leaves
behind a witness of a life of prayer. A graveside service was
held December 23rd, with a memorial service held on January 8,
1998. Harry Scism attended her memorial service on behalf of
the Foreign Missions Division, United Pentecostal Church,
International
Pauline Gruse, who had lived for seventeen years in
extreme sacrifice as a missionary in Africa, passed away. Rev.
Harry Scism, who attended her funeral and that of Lucille
Farmer, said, "As I review the lives of these two outstanding
women, I was led to fresh commitment of my own life to God.
Realizing the sacrifice these two women made and the great
hardship they faced before they were ever able to go to the
field, I felt so small. Most likely there will be a lot of
surprises for us in Heaven, for perhaps then we will realize
more fully how great in the eyes of the Lord are some" people
not as famous as some others.
Johnny Wilhoite, missionary evangelist and trainer of
evangelists, died of massive heart attack in Belize City,
Belize, after sleeping on the floor while helping construct a
building in that nation. He had trained many, many evangelists
and had written material for training others. Sister Willhoite
and the family will continue the literature ministry he began.
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