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Dr Herman Strauss Atkinson
6 Mar 1917 – 10 May 2005
| Birth | 6 Mar 1917 |
| Death | 10 May 2005 |
| Cemetery | Littlefield Cemetery Littlefield , Lamb County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Mick from Tx on 12 May 2005 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10953030 |
Bio
Dr. H. Strauss Atkinson, 88, died Tuesday, May 10, 2005, in Amarillo. Dr. H. Strauss Atkinson was born on March 6, 1917, in Florence, Texas. He was born into the family of God by salvation through faith in Jesus Christ on August 15, 1925, and was ordained to the ministry on November 24, 1940, by First Baptist Church of Littlefield, Texas. Strauss attended Hardin-Simmons University, West Texas A&M University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Wayland Baptist University. He pastored in Texas churches in Moran, Kermit and Canyon and was interim pastor of many area churches. He was director of missions for the Caprock-Plains Area in Plainview and was honored with the Outstanding Missionary Leader Award by the Associational Missions Division of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He preached in cities throughout the United States and many foreign countries. He served on numerous committees and boards of the Southern Baptist Convention and was a field representative for Baylor University. He presided at baccalaureate services at both Wayland Baptist University and Hardin-Simmons University. He actively served in the Ambassador Service for Amarillo Area Baptist Association as a mentor through December 2004. He was preceded in death by his wife, Trudy; his daughter, Mayla Ward; and his granddaughter, Tracie Densford. Dr. Atkinson's survivors are his wife, Bobbie Atkinson of Amarillo; daughter, Lynn Cain and husband, Dale, of Sundown; two grandchildren, Lt. Commander David Ward, and wife, Elke, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Pennee Shmitt and husband, Michael, of Houston; five sisters, Sybil Faught of Austin, Mary Pearl Roberts of Baytown; Elizabeth Sawyer of Florence, Billie Fern Goertz of Harrisburg, Ark., and Jacquita White of Fort Worth; and four great-grandchildren. Dr. Atkinson will lie in state from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at Brooks Funeral Home in Canyon. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, May 13, at the First Baptist Church of Amarillo with Dr. Howard Batson, pastor, Rev. Dale Cain, pastor of First Baptist Church of Sundown, Rev. Charles Davenport, pastor of First Baptist Church of Tulia, and Dr. Chester O'Brien, Baptist minister, officiating. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. Friday at Littlefield Cemetery in Littlefield, Texas. Memorials may be directed to the First Baptist Church of Amarillo, 1208 S. Tyler, Amarillo, TX 79101, or Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice, PO Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon and Happy.
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- Mary Pearl Atkinson Roberts 1912–2009
- Etha Merle Atkinson Young 1912–1990
- Billie Fern Atkinson Goertz 1915–2019
- Amy Beatrice Atkinson Bauer 1920–1996
- Patricia Elizabeth Atkinson Sawyer 1922–2015
- Sibyl Atkinson Faught 1927–2012
- Wesley Harrell Atkinson 1930–2001
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