Rev. John Marion Lemmon

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Submitted & © by Jo Aguirre

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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.

LIBERTY BELL 'SUZIE' LEMMON

© Published in Enid, OK. News

February 25, 2006

Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes

LIBERTY BELL 'SUZIE' LEMMON

The funeral for Liberty Bell "Suzie" Lemmon, 88, of Carmen, OK. will be 11 a.m. Monday in Carmen Christian Church. The Revs. Dorrance Manning, Darryl Manning, Daniel Manning and Howard Snell will officiate. Burial will be in Carmen City Cemetery. Arrangements are by Wentworth Mortuary, Carmen, OK.

She was born July 19, 1917, in Spencer to Chancellor Moody and Bertie Caledonia Campbell Miller and died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006, at Share Medical Center, Alva, OK.

She moved, as an infant, to Oklahoma city with her family where she attended grade school, junior high and high school.

She married John Marion Lemmon May 17, 1938. They then moved to Borger, Texas.

They also lived in Pampa and Amarillo, Texas, before moving to Carmen in 1956. She graduated from Blackwell General Hospital nursing school and from nursing home administrator school at the University of Oklahoma. She was a licensed nursing home administrator and certified dietary manager. She worked at Carmen Home.

She attended Carmen Home Chapel and was a member of Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Surviving are two daughters, Audrey C. Rountree of San Diego, CA. and Laberta M. Thomas of Carmen, OK.; two sons, David J. Lemmon of Carmen, OK. and Johnny M. Lemmon of Perry, OK.; 13 grandchildren; and a number of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, one daughter, two sisters and one grandson.