Roy E. Enterline

A funeral service for Roy E. Enterline has been scheduled for 11:00 AM, Thursday, October 29, 2015 at the First Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Burial will follow at Park Grove Cemetery under the direction of Hayhurst Funeral Home. Roy was born in Piedmont, OK on Monday, October 18, 1915. His father, mother, and grandfather were members of the Christian Church. His mother died when he was 2 weeks old. At that time, his father’s sister and her husband took care of him until he was 21 years old. All during those years, he was not in church or Sunday School. Roy graduated from Piedmont High School in 1933 and Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK, attending from 1942-46. In 1949 he came back to OBU to complete one more class in English Grammar and he taught one Greek class. He graduated with the class of 1950. He graduated from Hillcrest Hospital Chaplaincy Training, Tulsa , OK in 1963. In 1936, Roy married Mildred Martin. She led him to the Lord in 1938 by her Christian influence. They attended First Baptist Church in Dewey, OK. In 1939, Roy surrendered to the ministry. He was ordained at Virginia Avenue Baptist Church in Bartlesville, OK in 1940. He attended Central Seminary in Kansas City, MO from 1951-1952. Roy pastored eight churches in Oklahoma from 1942-1968, Calumet Baptist Church – 1942-44, Calumet, OK, Chattanooga Baptist Church, Chattanooga, OK, 1944-49, Earlsboro Baptist Church - 1949-50, Earlsboro, OK, Fairland Baptist Church - 1950-51, Fairland, OK, Belview Baptist Church - Tulsa, OK, 1951-63, Fellowship Baptist Church - Tulsa, OK, 1963-64, Michigan Ave Baptist Church - Chickasaw, OK, 1964-65, Dumas Ave Baptist Church - Oklahoma City, OK, 1966-68, Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1968-79. In August, 1968, he was commissioned at Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly to serve as Director of the Baptist Educational Center in Tulsa, which he did for 11 years. He held very special memories of his work with the National Baptist Churches in north Tulsa. Roy’s favorite Bible verses were Isaiah 26:3 - “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You" and Romans 8:38-39, "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." When asked what word Roy would leave for those coming behind him, he said “Never compromise your Christian convictions based on God’s Word as you continue your service for God.” Roy spent three very happy years at the Baptist Village in Broken Arrow where he was a resident and also was the volunteer Chaplain. When he would meet and greet others, he told them he was living next door to heaven! He lived out his life at Broken Arrow Nursing Home where he was loved and well cared for by all the staff. Roy never got to meet his mom, but he has talked many times over the years about how wonderful it will be when one day in Heaven he will get to meet his mother for the first time and have eternity to spend with her getting acquainted. His favorite hobbies were Spring gardening – tomatoes, blackberries, and squash; training his dog, Bambi, to pray, training his bird, Josh, to talk, telling jokes, (What is the telephone number in the Garden of Eden? Adam ate one. How many animals did Moses take on the ark with him? He would love to see if people were paying attention that he said Moses and not Noah.) reading and studying the Bible – at 95 years, he was working a two sermon series (Acts/Psalms 23) so he’d be ready to preach when asked. He enjoyed playing miniature golf with grandkids, playing croquet in the backyard with the family, making posters for his grandson to keep track of the NBAA tournament, and going to Glorieta, New Mexico with family for Sunday School, Pastor, and Music conferences weeks. He took a trip to the Holy Land in 1967. There were 17 in the group. They were able to walk through the empty tomb where Jesus was buried. They visited many places in Israel and Corinth. Some of Roy’s favorite stories: When at Chattanooga pastorate, we had a big pot belly stove in the middle of the sanctuary. Wednesday night everyone would stand around the stove to get warm. One night, as some of the choir members were gathered there, a sweet older deacon shared with everyone that his son had to quit choir because he had to have his hemorrhoids removed and couldn't sing anymore. Dad said that everyone just tried their best not to laugh. What the older deacon meant to say was that his son had his adenoids removed. At Calumet pastorate, a very large woman wanted to be baptized. Due to her size of 320 pounds, she couldn’t wear the baptismal robes and said she would make her own robe to wear. She made the robe out of canvas. When she walked down into the baptistery with dad, the air under her canvas robe formed a huge balloon and she started floating on top of the water. Dad said he tried 3 times to baptize her. He got her head under and her feet would pop up. Then he’d push her feet down and her head popped up. He said he could hear giggling from the congregation but he kept his composure and kept trying. Finally he decided just to push down on her in the middle so all of her would go under the water for the baptism. It worked and she floated over to the side and up the steps of the baptistery. Memorials may be made in Roy's name to First Baptist Church of Broken Arrow, 100 W. Albany, Broken Arrow, OK 74012. Roy is survived by, Daughters, Carolyn Osborn, Broken Arrow, OK Elizabeth Argo and husband Ron, Edmond, OK Grandchildren, Scott, Matthew and Tara, Amy and John, Tim and April Great Grandchildren, John Benjamin, Katherine Anne, Madeline Grace, Carly Jayne, Chance Kyle, Jack Henry, Andrew Michael, Kendall Elizabeth, Charles Howard Clark Sister, Nelda Young, Midwest City, OK He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, Mildred, brothers, Harold, Virgil, and Quimby, sister, Laverne, and grandson, Benjamin Kyle.

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Roy E. Enterline

October 18, 1915 - October 23, 2015