LUBBOCK - Woodrow Wilson Adcock, 85, died Monday, Dec. 28, 1998.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in First United Methodist Church with Dr. Jimmy Nunn and the Rev. Marisue Smith officiating. Entombment will be in the Garden of Shepherd of Resthaven Mausoleum by Resthaven Funeral Home of Lubbock.
Mr. Adcock was born in Haskell County. He graduated from Haskell High School in 1932 and from McMurry College with a bachelor of arts degree in 1936. In 1939, he received his B.D. degree from Southern Methodist University Perkins School of Theology. He was awarded his doctor of divinity by McMurry College in 1961.
Mr. Adcock served as a captain in World War II in central Europe where he was a chaplain. He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater ribbon.
For two years, Mr. Adcock worked as president of the Youth Assembly in the Northwest Texas Conference. He was an United Methodist minister for 66 years, serving the Sagerton and O'Brien churches, the Howe circuit, Valley View, Whitewright, Vera, Hale Center, Snyder, Pampa, Amarillo and Brownfield, minister of evangelism at First United Methodist Church in Lubbock and interim minister at Seagraves and Stinnett.
Mr. Adcock served as district superintendent of the Abilene District. In 1983, he was a representative of the Northwest Conference to the National Archives and History Center of the Methodist Church at Drew University in Madison, N.J. He was a member and twice president of the Lions Club.
He married Grace Wylie in 1937 at Howe.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Ruth Smith, Ann Fossler, Wood Adcock and Beth Ankrom; a brother, Grady Adcock; three sisters, Mildred Green, Evelyn Norris and Bertha Grissom; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Woodrow and Grace Adcock Scholarship Fund at McMurry University, Abilene, TX; or the Methodist Minister's Pension Fund, c/o First United Methodist Church, Lubbock.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in First United Methodist Church with Dr. Jimmy Nunn and the Rev. Marisue Smith officiating. Entombment will be in the Garden of Shepherd of Resthaven Mausoleum by Resthaven Funeral Home of Lubbock.
Mr. Adcock was born in Haskell County. He graduated from Haskell High School in 1932 and from McMurry College with a bachelor of arts degree in 1936. In 1939, he received his B.D. degree from Southern Methodist University Perkins School of Theology. He was awarded his doctor of divinity by McMurry College in 1961.
Mr. Adcock served as a captain in World War II in central Europe where he was a chaplain. He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater ribbon.
For two years, Mr. Adcock worked as president of the Youth Assembly in the Northwest Texas Conference. He was an United Methodist minister for 66 years, serving the Sagerton and O'Brien churches, the Howe circuit, Valley View, Whitewright, Vera, Hale Center, Snyder, Pampa, Amarillo and Brownfield, minister of evangelism at First United Methodist Church in Lubbock and interim minister at Seagraves and Stinnett.
Mr. Adcock served as district superintendent of the Abilene District. In 1983, he was a representative of the Northwest Conference to the National Archives and History Center of the Methodist Church at Drew University in Madison, N.J. He was a member and twice president of the Lions Club.
He married Grace Wylie in 1937 at Howe.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Ruth Smith, Ann Fossler, Wood Adcock and Beth Ankrom; a brother, Grady Adcock; three sisters, Mildred Green, Evelyn Norris and Bertha Grissom; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Woodrow and Grace Adcock Scholarship Fund at McMurry University, Abilene, TX; or the Methodist Minister's Pension Fund, c/o First United Methodist Church, Lubbock.
LUBBOCK - Woodrow Wilson Adcock, 85, died Monday, Dec. 28, 1998.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in First United Methodist Church with Dr. Jimmy Nunn and the Rev. Marisue Smith officiating. Entombment will be in the Garden of Shepherd of Resthaven Mausoleum by Resthaven Funeral Home of Lubbock.
Mr. Adcock was born in Haskell County. He graduated from Haskell High School in 1932 and from McMurry College with a bachelor of arts degree in 1936. In 1939, he received his B.D. degree from Southern Methodist University Perkins School of Theology. He was awarded his doctor of divinity by McMurry College in 1961.
Mr. Adcock served as a captain in World War II in central Europe where he was a chaplain. He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater ribbon.
For two years, Mr. Adcock worked as president of the Youth Assembly in the Northwest Texas Conference. He was an United Methodist minister for 66 years, serving the Sagerton and O'Brien churches, the Howe circuit, Valley View, Whitewright, Vera, Hale Center, Snyder, Pampa, Amarillo and Brownfield, minister of evangelism at First United Methodist Church in Lubbock and interim minister at Seagraves and Stinnett.
Mr. Adcock served as district superintendent of the Abilene District. In 1983, he was a representative of the Northwest Conference to the National Archives and History Center of the Methodist Church at Drew University in Madison, N.J. He was a member and twice president of the Lions Club.
He married Grace Wylie in 1937 at Howe.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Ruth Smith, Ann Fossler, Wood Adcock and Beth Ankrom; a brother, Grady Adcock; three sisters, Mildred Green, Evelyn Norris and Bertha Grissom; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Woodrow and Grace Adcock Scholarship Fund at McMurry University, Abilene, TX; or the Methodist Minister's Pension Fund, c/o First United Methodist Church, Lubbock.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in First United Methodist Church with Dr. Jimmy Nunn and the Rev. Marisue Smith officiating. Entombment will be in the Garden of Shepherd of Resthaven Mausoleum by Resthaven Funeral Home of Lubbock.
Mr. Adcock was born in Haskell County. He graduated from Haskell High School in 1932 and from McMurry College with a bachelor of arts degree in 1936. In 1939, he received his B.D. degree from Southern Methodist University Perkins School of Theology. He was awarded his doctor of divinity by McMurry College in 1961.
Mr. Adcock served as a captain in World War II in central Europe where he was a chaplain. He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater ribbon.
For two years, Mr. Adcock worked as president of the Youth Assembly in the Northwest Texas Conference. He was an United Methodist minister for 66 years, serving the Sagerton and O'Brien churches, the Howe circuit, Valley View, Whitewright, Vera, Hale Center, Snyder, Pampa, Amarillo and Brownfield, minister of evangelism at First United Methodist Church in Lubbock and interim minister at Seagraves and Stinnett.
Mr. Adcock served as district superintendent of the Abilene District. In 1983, he was a representative of the Northwest Conference to the National Archives and History Center of the Methodist Church at Drew University in Madison, N.J. He was a member and twice president of the Lions Club.
He married Grace Wylie in 1937 at Howe.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Ruth Smith, Ann Fossler, Wood Adcock and Beth Ankrom; a brother, Grady Adcock; three sisters, Mildred Green, Evelyn Norris and Bertha Grissom; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Woodrow and Grace Adcock Scholarship Fund at McMurry University, Abilene, TX; or the Methodist Minister's Pension Fund, c/o First United Methodist Church, Lubbock.
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