The Roe Family
Last Updated on Thursday, 02 September 2010 21:33 Written by Ben Roe Friday, 04 June 2010 13:32
Our family started out with just mom and dad, of course. Joe and Enid.
Joe was a Methodist/United Methodist minister for nearly 40 years, serving in the Nebraska Conference. Enid was active in the churches dad served, with a heart for mission and justice work. She became a special ed teacher and diaconal minister later in life.
Here's a family photo at their 25th Wedding Anniversary:
Left to Right: Joe, Ben, Deb, Rebecca, Enid, Phyllis
My sister Rebecca attended Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, made banners and large macrame pieces, had systemic lupus, and died in 1978 from an aortic aneurysm. My sister Phyllis wrote about Rebecca, in a sermon and article from 1978.
My father Joe served preaching circuits in Arkansas, and United Methodist Churches in Bayard, Big Springs, Ainsworth, Elmwood, Lincoln, Shelton, and Arapahoe, Nebraska He retired from Arapahoe and he and mom moved to Norton, Kansas, where she continued to teach special ed. He died in 1987 from an aortic aneurysm.
My sister Phyllis attended Nebraska Wesleyan, Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and Candler Seminary in Atlanta. She and her husband Michael Anderson were the first executive directors of the Samaritan Counseling Center of Hawai`i, now the Counseling and Spiritual Care Center of Hawai`i. She died in 2001 during surgery on an aortic aneurysm.
Phyllis and I were ordained United Methodist Elders in the same ordination ceremony in 1976, at the session of Nebraska Conference.
My mother Enid was a diaconal minister in the United Methodist Church, and served as a special education teacher in Norton, KS. She died in 2002 from non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
More about each will be coming as I get time to add...