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Ethel Lee Best

Alto, Texas

January 21, 1934 - April 12, 2020

Jan 21, 1934 - Apr 12, 2020

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Ethel Lee Chapman Best of Alto, Texas. Died Easter Resurrection Sunday, April 12, 2020, age 86.
Born January 21, 1934 to Albert Chapman and Tressie Wingo Chapman in Big Springs, Texas. She met and married her husband Lee Ray Best at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas on April 4, 1958. They were married for 62 amazing years. While her husband pastored Baptist Churches, Ethel was a nurse, raised 4 children, and worked along side her husband teaching Sunday School classes and working in the church. Mrs. Best was a lifelong supporter and encourager of her four children, the local church, and missions. She was a member and children's Sunday School teacher at Old Palestine Baptist Church, Earnest Mayes, Pastor. She and her husband took several mission trips to Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Throughout the years she taught her children that there was no higher calling than to serve Christ and to serve others. She and her husband worked for over 60 years conducting worship services, teaching Bible studies in Nursing homes, teaching youth groups at church, and working in prison ministries. Mrs. Best had a passion for children, missions, singing hymns of faith, and sharing that faith with others. Ethel was a loving mother, wife, sister, daughter, aunt, and Gran Gran.
She is survived by her husband Rev. Lee Ray Best, daughter Barbara Lee Marchbanks, (David) of Cleburne, Texas, son Mark Best (Pamela) of Antofagasta, Chile, daughter Darla Britt (David -deceased) of Chandler, Texas, daughter-in-law Dawn Best (Robin - deceased) of Jacksonville, Texas, 18 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren, brother David Boyd Chapman, of Nacogdoches, Texas, numerous nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Best is preceded in death by her parents Albert and Tressie Chapman, son Robin Dewayne Best, brothers Vernon Chapman, Jerry Chapman, and Floyd (Sonny) Chapman, sister Louis Frances Chapman.
One of her favorite verses was Isaiah 41:10 “Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”
She is buried at Resthaven Cemetery in Jacksonville, Texas.

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