Viola Marie (Phillips) Bridgman
Burial will be in Memorial Park
Cemetery, Tulsa. Local arrangements are by Ladusau-Evans
Funeral Home. Visitation will be until 10 p.m. Monday at
Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home, Enid.
She was born Oct. 6, 1917, in Lincoln, Ark., to Carl and
Beulah Phillips and died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006, at her
home in Tulsa.
She lived on a farm and attended school in Lincoln.
She married H. Ray Bridgman Sept. 17, 1936, in Westville.
They pastored at a church in Kellyville, then evangelized
throughout the western United States before accepting the
pastorate of Evangelistic Center, currently First Love
Church, in 1948. They founded Abundant Life Temple in Enid
in 1957, ministering there until retirement. In 1998, they
moved to Tulsa. She directed church choirs, played piano,
organ, accordion, vibraharp and guitar in churches and on
the radio.
Surviving are her husband, H. Ray, of the home; one son,
Edward Bridgman of Tulsa; one daughter, Joyce Bridgman of
Tulsa; one brother, Roscoe Phillips of Sunrise Beach, Mo.;
two sisters, Verna Lowe Howell of Tulsa and Beatrice Thomas
of Austin, Texas.
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