Rev. John Marion Lemmon

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Rev. John Marion Lemmon

The Rev. John Marion Lemmon went to his heavenly home at 11:17 p.m. Thursday January 11, 2000 at the Carmen Home in Carmen Oklahoma. He was born February 10, 1906 in Washita County Oklahoma to Jarrett Mitchell Richard David Lemmon and Avie Catherine Adams Lemmon.

In January, 1924 he married Nettie Haley. To this union was born two daughters. Nettie preceded him in death May 14, 1931. He married Liberty Bell Miller May 17,1938. To this union was born one daughter and two sons.

Rev. Lemmon became a Christian in 1932. He was a member of the First Love Pentecostal Holiness Church in Enid Oklahoma. He was a member of the Heartland Pentecostal Holiness Conference.

He began his ministry as an evangelist and then pastured churches in Borger, Pampa, and Amarillo Texas. He was elected Superintendent of the Great Plains (then Panhandle) Conference of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in 1944. He served until 1956 when he became President and then Chaplain until his death. Rev. Lemmon graduated from Oklahoma University Nursing Home Administrator School. He served many years as Chairman on the Southwestern Bible College Board of Education. Rev. Lemmon was on the General Administration Board for International Pentecostal Holiness Church for 50 years. He was an active civic and political leader. He served as President of the Carmen Chamber of Commerce, Alfalfa County Republican Chairman for President Nixon and Governor Bartlett campaigns. He was inducted into the Alfalfa County Hall of Fame by the County Historical Society.

Rev. Lemmon was preceded in death by his parents and his first wife; one sister, Ida Lemmon Haddock; his brother in law Clyde Haddock; two brothers Albert Harvey Lemmon and Thomas Lemmon; two half-sisters Dorothy Lindsay and Juanita Rowe; three half brothers Jodie Watson, Ernest Watson, and James Watson; his daughter Evelyn Lemmon Manning, and his grandson Timothy Rountree.

Rev. Lemmon is survived by his wife, Liberty (Suzie) Lemmon of the Carmen home; his children Audrey Catherine Lemmon Rountree and her husband Ruben of LaMesa California, Laberta Marion Lemmon Thomas and her husband Robert of Carmen Oklahoma, David Jarrett Lemmon and his wife Melva of Carmen Oklahoma, Johnny Melton Lemmon and his wife Peggy of Las Vegas Nevada; his son in law Dorrance Manning and his wife Shirley of Oklahoma City Oklahoma; his grandchildren Carol Rountree Brophy, John Rountree, Greg Rountree, Darryl Manning, Daniel Manning, Dana Manning McGaughey, Dona Manning Mason, Johnny Lee Thomas, Rick Lemmon, Mike Lemmon, Tammy Lemmon Harmon, Tonya Lemmon Davis, Susan Lemmon and respective spouses; 21 great grandchildren; 5 great-great grandchildren; nieces and nephews; his Carmen Home family; and a host of relatives and friends.

John Marion Lemmon will be remembered by his family as the most loving and giving person they had the privilege of knowing, but most of all for his Christian example.

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