GRANT, HELEN LORENE. "She passed on to be with Jesus in the same way she lived with him peacefully." She simply closed her eyes in this world and woke up in the next. Born in Hot Springs County, Arkansas on December 11, 1917, the daughter of a sharecropper. She quickly became an orphan during the depression, her father died when she was 4 years old and her mother died when she was 10. One of 8 children, she had 6 brothers and 1 sister. She picked cotton and worked for 50 cents a week, and lived with neighbors in the Arkansas country just to survive. But, at the young age of 12 she found the Lord and never left him. She was married at 19 to Walter V. Grant Sr., who eventually wrote more books than any man who ever lived, and bore him two sons. At the age of 20, they went into business together "on a shoestring" in Malvern, Arkansas. Eight years later they owned eight businesses in that city, including the town service station, barbershop, meat market, a mechanics garage and large grocery store. They gave up all that in 1950 to go into the ministry fulltime. Her husband W.V. Grant Sr., was ordained by the Assemblies of God, and helped found and oversee the Voice of Healing (now Christ for the Nations) with the late Gordon Lindsay from 1952 until 1972, which fostered and promoted the great Healing Revival of the 60s and 70s. "Sister Lorene" and her husband traveled and conducted revivals in tents, auditoriums and churches until 1955, when they settled in Dallas to pastor the Dallas Revival Center with Rev. Jack Coe, who passed on in 1957. In 1963 they founded Dallas Souls Harbor church, 3200 West Davis St., which grew to over 2500 members by the time her husband passed in 1983. For the past 20 years she has recorded 15 singing albums, authored the book, The story of My Life as a Preachers wife, and co-pastored Eagles Nest Cathedral with her son and daughter-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. W. V. Grant, Jr. She was over ENCs "Food for the Hungry" program for many years. Her life, singing, and prayers touched and changed the lives of many, and only eternity will reveal the thousands of lives her compassion touched. She will be missed; her smile, love and caring is rare for anyone in this day and age. She is survived by her two sons, Pastor W. V. Grant, Jr. of Dallas, and Gale Grant of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 brother, Arlie Hall of Los Angeles, three granddaughters, (Misty, Kellie and Jana), 1 grandson (Gideon), 2 step-grandsons (Barry and Mark Anderson), and 1 great-grandson (Indigo Skye). Her final celebration services will be held at 4:00 P.M. Saturday, March 29, 2003 at Laurel Land Memorial Chapel. Interment will be next to her late husband in Laurel Land Cemetery. Officiating will be The Rev. Jerry B. Walker of Sugarland, Texas. As the Apostle Paul said, "To be absent from the body is to be present with Lord.