Evelyn Fay Corder Strickland, 92, moved into eternal life Friday, Feb. 26, 2010.
Memorial service: 10 a.m. Thursday at Broadway Baptist Church. Interment will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Fairmount Cemetery in San Angelo.
Memorials: May be made to the children's ministry at Broadway Baptist Church or current disaster relief.
Evelyn was born Jan. 28, 1918, in Joplin, Mo., to Yale M. and Addie Mae Corder. Her lifelong commitment to Jesus Christ formally began at age 13 and she was baptized at the First Baptist Church, Tulsa, Okla. Following graduation from Tulsa Central High School, she enrolled at Oklahoma Baptist University, where she met the love of her life, Wylbur Alvis Strickland. They were married Feb. 7, 1938. She faithfully supported his ministry for the next several years as he pastored churches in Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee. She also began parenting her two children during this time. In 1954, the family moved to Fresno, Calif., where she worked at the Baptist Book Store and was active in the First Southern Baptist Church while he was employed by the California Baptist Convention. In 1959, they relocated to Nashville, Tenn., where she began new careers, first as director and a teacher in the kindergarten program at Lincoya Hills Baptist Church, and then, in 1965, as a news writer for the Tennessee Baptist Convention. In 1983, she was named public relations coordinator for the state convention, the position from which she retired in 1984. While in Nashville she also wrote the Baptist Sunday School Board's VBS nursery teachers' guide "Happy Times Together," used convention-wide from 1963-1969. In 1974, she became the second woman employed by an SBC agency to be accredited by the Public Relations Society of America.
In 1985, they moved to the Baptist Retirement Center in San Angelo where she became active in the First Baptist Church and the Baptist Memorials Hospital Auxiliary, serving as its president in 1995-1996. From 1987-1989, they temporarily relocated to Bismarck, N.D., to serve with the Dakota Southern Baptist Fellowship. Following her husband's death in 1998, she remained active in the church as long as she was able. She moved to Fort Worth in 2006 to be closer to her family. As a homebound member of Broadway Baptist Church, she enjoyed regular visits from the church's Youth and Cheer groups.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brother, Everett Corder; and her sister, Georgia Corder Dempsey.
Her death brings to an end her families' line of the Greatest Generation.
Survivors: Her legacy of love continues through a son, John S. Strickland and his wife, Joy, of Prather, Calif., and their children, John S. Strickland III and his wife, Karen, of San Clemente, Calif., and Jana Strickland Zelasko of Prather, Calif.; daughter, Addie Ann Strickland Phillips and her husband, Robert, of Fort Worth, and their children, Robanne Stading and her husband, Edward, of Homer, Alaska, Fayebetth Little and her husband, Robert, of Katy, and Holly Alyce Phillips of Fort Worth; great-grandchildren, Morgan and Taylor Strickland, Claire and Emma Zelasko, Clara and Alexander Stading, and Scott and George Little; and more than 100 nieces and nephews.
Published in Star-Telegram on March 3, 2010
Memorial service: 10 a.m. Thursday at Broadway Baptist Church. Interment will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Fairmount Cemetery in San Angelo.
Memorials: May be made to the children's ministry at Broadway Baptist Church or current disaster relief.
Evelyn was born Jan. 28, 1918, in Joplin, Mo., to Yale M. and Addie Mae Corder. Her lifelong commitment to Jesus Christ formally began at age 13 and she was baptized at the First Baptist Church, Tulsa, Okla. Following graduation from Tulsa Central High School, she enrolled at Oklahoma Baptist University, where she met the love of her life, Wylbur Alvis Strickland. They were married Feb. 7, 1938. She faithfully supported his ministry for the next several years as he pastored churches in Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee. She also began parenting her two children during this time. In 1954, the family moved to Fresno, Calif., where she worked at the Baptist Book Store and was active in the First Southern Baptist Church while he was employed by the California Baptist Convention. In 1959, they relocated to Nashville, Tenn., where she began new careers, first as director and a teacher in the kindergarten program at Lincoya Hills Baptist Church, and then, in 1965, as a news writer for the Tennessee Baptist Convention. In 1983, she was named public relations coordinator for the state convention, the position from which she retired in 1984. While in Nashville she also wrote the Baptist Sunday School Board's VBS nursery teachers' guide "Happy Times Together," used convention-wide from 1963-1969. In 1974, she became the second woman employed by an SBC agency to be accredited by the Public Relations Society of America.
In 1985, they moved to the Baptist Retirement Center in San Angelo where she became active in the First Baptist Church and the Baptist Memorials Hospital Auxiliary, serving as its president in 1995-1996. From 1987-1989, they temporarily relocated to Bismarck, N.D., to serve with the Dakota Southern Baptist Fellowship. Following her husband's death in 1998, she remained active in the church as long as she was able. She moved to Fort Worth in 2006 to be closer to her family. As a homebound member of Broadway Baptist Church, she enjoyed regular visits from the church's Youth and Cheer groups.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brother, Everett Corder; and her sister, Georgia Corder Dempsey.
Her death brings to an end her families' line of the Greatest Generation.
Survivors: Her legacy of love continues through a son, John S. Strickland and his wife, Joy, of Prather, Calif., and their children, John S. Strickland III and his wife, Karen, of San Clemente, Calif., and Jana Strickland Zelasko of Prather, Calif.; daughter, Addie Ann Strickland Phillips and her husband, Robert, of Fort Worth, and their children, Robanne Stading and her husband, Edward, of Homer, Alaska, Fayebetth Little and her husband, Robert, of Katy, and Holly Alyce Phillips of Fort Worth; great-grandchildren, Morgan and Taylor Strickland, Claire and Emma Zelasko, Clara and Alexander Stading, and Scott and George Little; and more than 100 nieces and nephews.
Published in Star-Telegram on March 3, 2010
Evelyn Fay Corder Strickland, 92, moved into eternal life Friday, Feb. 26, 2010.
Memorial service: 10 a.m. Thursday at Broadway Baptist Church. Interment will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Fairmount Cemetery in San Angelo.
Memorials: May be made to the children's ministry at Broadway Baptist Church or current disaster relief.
Evelyn was born Jan. 28, 1918, in Joplin, Mo., to Yale M. and Addie Mae Corder. Her lifelong commitment to Jesus Christ formally began at age 13 and she was baptized at the First Baptist Church, Tulsa, Okla. Following graduation from Tulsa Central High School, she enrolled at Oklahoma Baptist University, where she met the love of her life, Wylbur Alvis Strickland. They were married Feb. 7, 1938. She faithfully supported his ministry for the next several years as he pastored churches in Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee. She also began parenting her two children during this time. In 1954, the family moved to Fresno, Calif., where she worked at the Baptist Book Store and was active in the First Southern Baptist Church while he was employed by the California Baptist Convention. In 1959, they relocated to Nashville, Tenn., where she began new careers, first as director and a teacher in the kindergarten program at Lincoya Hills Baptist Church, and then, in 1965, as a news writer for the Tennessee Baptist Convention. In 1983, she was named public relations coordinator for the state convention, the position from which she retired in 1984. While in Nashville she also wrote the Baptist Sunday School Board's VBS nursery teachers' guide "Happy Times Together," used convention-wide from 1963-1969. In 1974, she became the second woman employed by an SBC agency to be accredited by the Public Relations Society of America.
In 1985, they moved to the Baptist Retirement Center in San Angelo where she became active in the First Baptist Church and the Baptist Memorials Hospital Auxiliary, serving as its president in 1995-1996. From 1987-1989, they temporarily relocated to Bismarck, N.D., to serve with the Dakota Southern Baptist Fellowship. Following her husband's death in 1998, she remained active in the church as long as she was able. She moved to Fort Worth in 2006 to be closer to her family. As a homebound member of Broadway Baptist Church, she enjoyed regular visits from the church's Youth and Cheer groups.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brother, Everett Corder; and her sister, Georgia Corder Dempsey.
Her death brings to an end her families' line of the Greatest Generation.
Survivors: Her legacy of love continues through a son, John S. Strickland and his wife, Joy, of Prather, Calif., and their children, John S. Strickland III and his wife, Karen, of San Clemente, Calif., and Jana Strickland Zelasko of Prather, Calif.; daughter, Addie Ann Strickland Phillips and her husband, Robert, of Fort Worth, and their children, Robanne Stading and her husband, Edward, of Homer, Alaska, Fayebetth Little and her husband, Robert, of Katy, and Holly Alyce Phillips of Fort Worth; great-grandchildren, Morgan and Taylor Strickland, Claire and Emma Zelasko, Clara and Alexander Stading, and Scott and George Little; and more than 100 nieces and nephews.
Published in Star-Telegram on March 3, 2010
Memorial service: 10 a.m. Thursday at Broadway Baptist Church. Interment will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Fairmount Cemetery in San Angelo.
Memorials: May be made to the children's ministry at Broadway Baptist Church or current disaster relief.
Evelyn was born Jan. 28, 1918, in Joplin, Mo., to Yale M. and Addie Mae Corder. Her lifelong commitment to Jesus Christ formally began at age 13 and she was baptized at the First Baptist Church, Tulsa, Okla. Following graduation from Tulsa Central High School, she enrolled at Oklahoma Baptist University, where she met the love of her life, Wylbur Alvis Strickland. They were married Feb. 7, 1938. She faithfully supported his ministry for the next several years as he pastored churches in Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee. She also began parenting her two children during this time. In 1954, the family moved to Fresno, Calif., where she worked at the Baptist Book Store and was active in the First Southern Baptist Church while he was employed by the California Baptist Convention. In 1959, they relocated to Nashville, Tenn., where she began new careers, first as director and a teacher in the kindergarten program at Lincoya Hills Baptist Church, and then, in 1965, as a news writer for the Tennessee Baptist Convention. In 1983, she was named public relations coordinator for the state convention, the position from which she retired in 1984. While in Nashville she also wrote the Baptist Sunday School Board's VBS nursery teachers' guide "Happy Times Together," used convention-wide from 1963-1969. In 1974, she became the second woman employed by an SBC agency to be accredited by the Public Relations Society of America.
In 1985, they moved to the Baptist Retirement Center in San Angelo where she became active in the First Baptist Church and the Baptist Memorials Hospital Auxiliary, serving as its president in 1995-1996. From 1987-1989, they temporarily relocated to Bismarck, N.D., to serve with the Dakota Southern Baptist Fellowship. Following her husband's death in 1998, she remained active in the church as long as she was able. She moved to Fort Worth in 2006 to be closer to her family. As a homebound member of Broadway Baptist Church, she enjoyed regular visits from the church's Youth and Cheer groups.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brother, Everett Corder; and her sister, Georgia Corder Dempsey.
Her death brings to an end her families' line of the Greatest Generation.
Survivors: Her legacy of love continues through a son, John S. Strickland and his wife, Joy, of Prather, Calif., and their children, John S. Strickland III and his wife, Karen, of San Clemente, Calif., and Jana Strickland Zelasko of Prather, Calif.; daughter, Addie Ann Strickland Phillips and her husband, Robert, of Fort Worth, and their children, Robanne Stading and her husband, Edward, of Homer, Alaska, Fayebetth Little and her husband, Robert, of Katy, and Holly Alyce Phillips of Fort Worth; great-grandchildren, Morgan and Taylor Strickland, Claire and Emma Zelasko, Clara and Alexander Stading, and Scott and George Little; and more than 100 nieces and nephews.
Published in Star-Telegram on March 3, 2010
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