Rev. Cecil Carole Chisum

Reverend Cecil C. Chisum was born April 30, 1939 in Comanche (rural Stephens County), Oklahoma on the Patton Place to the late Cecil and Myrtle (Barnes) Chisum. He passed from this life February 14, 2014 in Alexandria, Louisiana to eternal rest at the age of 74 years, 9 months and 14 days. He attended Comanche Public Schools and graduated in 1957. He then married Reba Jo Morse in November 1957 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Cecil began his ministry with the Assemblies of God in 1965 in California and he was ordained in 1969 in Lubbock, Texas. He pastored churches in Clarendon, Texas and Dustin, Oklahoma. He then evangelized and traveled with his family from 1974 to 1982. He later pioneered a church in Girard, Kansas and then moved to Miami, Oklahoma where he had a jail ministry and ministered to Micronesian people in the area. He faithfully served for 49 years. Reverend Chisum was preceded in death by his parents, two daughters, Sherry Denise Chisum and Teresa Jo Chisum, a great granddaughter, Darcy Michelle Chisum and a brother, Billy Carl Chisum, who died at birth. Survivors include three daughters, Barbara Brown and husband Keithen of Reno, Texas, Donna Chisum of Rogers, Arkansas and Aimee Taylor and husband Brian of Joplin, Missouri, a son, Rick Chisum and wife Sue of Henryetta, Oklahoma, four brothers, M.C. Chisum of Alexandria, Louisiana, Joe Chisum of Bossier City, Louisiana, Troy Chisum of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Jimmy Chisum of Phoenix, Arizona, five granddaughters, four grandsons, six great granddaughters, six great grandsons, two great great grandsons and numerous nieces and nephews. A special thanks to the newest members of the family that lovingly served as Dad’s Journey Angels, Amy Hinton and Joanne McBride and Dr. McBride. A funeral service will be held 2:00 P.M., Saturday, February 22, 2014 at the First Assembly of God Church in Hugo, Oklahoma with Pastor W.C. Anderson, Jr. of the Antioch Church of God in Christ of Pineville, Louisiana officiating. Interment will follow in the Forest Chapel Cemetery in Forest Chapel, Texas. Casketbearers will be grandsons and friends. The family will receive friends on Friday evening from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of the McClendon-Winters Funeral Home of Okmulgee, Oklahoma.

Rev. Cecil Carole Chisum

April 30, 1939 - February 14, 2014