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Pastor David W. McGarvey, 68, of Leedey, Oklahoma and pastor of the Red Star Brethren In Christ Church went to his heavenly home at approximately 12:45 AM on May 24, 2013, while a patient at OU Medical Center. He had been treated for cancer (Lymphoma and Leukemia) over the last 3 years and had received a stem cell transplant on May 10.
He was known by Dave in the Leedey community. After completing a basic Emergency Medical Technition course he went on to become an intermediate EMT and became an EMT instructor and AHA CPR instructor. He loved helping others and thoroughly enjoyed his work as a pastor and EMT.
He was born at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C.on Dec. 7, 1944, and was the son of William Dean and Erna Mae McGarvey. His father preceded him in death and his mother resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He spent most of his growing years in Altoona, Pennsylvania and graduated from Altoona High School in 1962. He went on to attend Shippensburg State Teachers College in Pennsylvania and transferred to Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, graduating in 1967.
April 6, l968 he married Jo Ann Weber of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. She is an RN and graduate of Harrisburg Hospital School of Nursing, class of 1966. Together they have a daughter, Shannon who resides with her husband Christopher Radloff and children Jonathan and Shanna in East Troy, Wisconsin, where Shannon is the director of music at the Southern Lakes Evangelical Free Church, Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Their son, Sean, is a renal dialysis nurse in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and resides with his wife Trisha and 3 children, Matthew, Michael & Megan in Hixson, Tennessee. They are foster parents of a baby girl, Remi.
Dave and Jo made their home in Indiana for 29 years and were involved in traveling and singing gospel music. Dave was very musically talented and played trombone, baritone, string bass, bass guitar, piano and organ.
Dave had an intense love for sports, playing, as well as coaching, and enjoyed coaching his children�s soccer teams when they were young. Dave was ordained as a minister in 1992 in the Brethren in Christ Church. He attended Bethany Divinity Seminary, Dothan, Alabama, through on line studies and received his Master of Ministry degree in 1994 and his Master of Sacred Theology in 2013.
Surviving him are his wife, Jo, daughter Shannon and husband Chris, and two grandchildren, Jonathan and Shanna: son Sean and wife Trisha and 3 grandchildren, Matthew, Michael, and Megan. His mother Erna, brothers Tim and wife Sharon, and Joel and wife Susan and their families live in or near Grand Rapids, Michigan and Wisconsin. His sister Deborah and husband Steve Wuitowicz and family live in Lorain, Ohio.
Dave was a member of the Leedey Ministerial Alliance. He also had a CDL license and had driven a semi for Leedey Coop and a charter bus for Fellowship Christian Tours out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the past.
He loved life and his precious family as well as his church family, but most of all he loved and served his Savior, Jesus Christ, in whose presence he now resides. "In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations be made to Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, Illnois, Red Star Church, American Cancer Society, Bible Doctrines to Live By in Grand Rapids, Michigan, or Gideons International."
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