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August 17, 2012

Mary Elizabeth Ward Van Winkle

Anonymous ---- The Tribune Star Fri Aug 17, 2012, 05:04 AM EDT

TERRE HAUTE — The Rev. Mary E. Van Winkle, 77, of West Terre Haute died of natural causes Thursday, March 16, 2012, at 10:35 A.M. in her home.

Survivors include her husband, Rev. William Allan Van Winkle, two sons, William Ward Van Winkle and his wife, Kimberly Kristi Van Winkle, of West Terre Haute, and Rev. Timothy Allan Van Winkle and his wife, Melanie Gail Van Winkle, of Terre Haute; seven grandchildren: Daniel Ward Van Winkle, Kandice Anne Van Winkle, William Scott Van Winkle, Jordan Allan Van Winkle, Staff Sergeant Christopher Eric Martin, Crystal Gail Martin Layton and Cheyenne Reinig; and three great-grandchildren: Kiersten Layton, Colton Layton, and Kamryn Martin. Also surviving are two sisters, Naomi Ruth Easley of Springfield, Missouri and Esther Sharon Adams of South Carolina, one brother, James David Ward of Springfield, Missouri, and several nieces and nephews.

Born September 5, 1934, to Rev. Tilford Truman Ward and Julia Elizabeth Hockman Ward in Mullinville, Kansas, she moved to West Terre Haute where she married Allan Van Winkle September 27, 1960, at Chamberlain’s Chapel, East Glenn. They would have celebrated 52 years of marriage next month. God called her to the ministry as a child, and she accompanied her father in ministry as a pastor in Cherokee, Oklahoma, Hulman Street Assembly of God, Terre Haute, Glad Tidings Assembly of God, Springfield, Missouri and First Assembly of God, Hannibal, Missouri, and in a healing and deliverance ministry under one the world’s largest tents. She was her father’s organist and children’s evangelist on the “sawdust trail”. She pastored her first church at 16 in the Oklahoma sand flats, and, with her husband’s assistance, at Friendship Assembly of God, Springfield, Missouri; she was Educational Director at First Assembly of God, Terre Haute, and pastored with her husband in Indiana churches at Bicknell, Decatur, Hymera, Cayuga, and eleven years at Hulman Street Assembly of God, Terre Haute. She retired May 16, 2001, and assisted her son, Rev. Timothy A. Van Winkle, as a children’s worker and as a fill-in minister at New Haven of Hope.

Funeral services will be conducted at 5:00 P.M., Sunday, August 19, 2012 in Callahan & Hughes Funeral Home, 605 South 25th Street. Visitation is scheduled prior to services on Sunday from 3:00-5:00 P.M. A graveside burial service will be held at 10:00 A.M. Monday, August 20th at Shiloh Church Cemetery, 7971 County Road 875 North, northeast of Hymera, Indiana. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations may be made to New Haven of Hope, 2251 Liberty Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana 47807.

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