REV. EDFORD HACKLER (2001) Pulaski County, Arkansas

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Taken from NLR Funeral Home Leaflet:      

This is the Pastor of the Church I attended for years.   

REV EDFORD HACKLER 7/4/1916 Cato Arkansas. Died, 12/13/2001 Beebe Arkansas           
Services 2:00 p.m. Monday 12/17/2001 Lighthouse Pentecostal Church (Beebe).                
Ministers: Dr. John Scheel, Rev. C. R. Wooley, Rev. Larry Hamby, & Rev. 
Noel Daniel                                                                    

Place of interment: Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens with Military Honors.                                  
Pallbearers: Kevin Conner, Junior Johnson, Elbert Walker, Michael Herring, 

George Hanna & George Bradley                         

Memorials----Lighthouse Christian College & Academy  Beebe Arkansas.                                                                         
Preceded in death: wife of 41 years; Pansy Ivy Hackler, 2 brothers; Bill 
Hackler of LR, & Frank Hackler of Fayetteville, 1 sister; Eunice Wheeler 
of NLR, 2 daughters; Sandra (Husband James) Styles of Travelers Rest, SC, 
& Vickie (Husband Dr. John) Scheel of Beebe. 1 step-daughter; Pat Davis 
of Tampa Florida, 12 grandchildren, & 1 great-grandson, (His Namesake) 
Hackler Robins Mills.                            

After receiving the Holy Ghost at Runyon Campmeeting in 1962, He pastored 
the Cato Apolstolic Church & The Firest United Penticostal Church of Gravel 
Ridge. He also pastored churches in Vilonia & Cabot. He was a minister for 
42 years. His faith was a very important part of his life, in every aspect 
of his walk with God, he preached it, lived it, and died with the testimony 
he lived. He served on the Board of Directors of the Lighthouse Penticostal 
church, as Vice President, for over 30 years. He was a World War II veteran 
that was wounded in New Guinea, and received a Purple Heart. He was known 
as a kind man of faith that will be forever remembered and greatly missed 
by all who knew him.                        Mary A. Pifer
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