Ted T. Stewart

will be held at Sunset

Church of Christ at 1 p.m. on

Saturday, February 25, 2012

followed by burial at Resthaven

Memorial Park with

Howard Norton and Kevin

Stewart officiating. Visitat

i o n w i l l b e a t R e s t h a v e n

Funeral Home from 6:30 p.m.

to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Februa

r y 2 4 t h . T e d d i e d i n h i s

home on Wednesday, February

22, 2012 at 7 p.m. after a

lengthy illness.

Teddy Travis Stewart was born to Orville Travis Stewart

and Rachel Loving Stewart on May 28, 1934 in Albuquerque,

New Mexico. Ted graduated from Amarillo High

School in 1953 and received a full Naval Scholarship in

Engineering at the University of Colorado. He decided to

become a preacher and transferred to Abilene Christian

University (ACU). Ted graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in

Bible in 1959. He was active in student government. He

was speaker of the House and Vice President of the

Senior Class. It was in student government that he met his

wife Dot McAfee who was Sophomore Class Secretary. Ted

was also on the debate team and Varsity basketball team.

Ted married Dot McAfee on May 28, 1957. At ACU they

joined a mission team of fellow students and served as missionaires

in Sao Paulo, Brazil for 13 years. The missionary

group of 16 families established 19 congregations in Sao Paulo

and many more congregations in other cities. Ted was director

of Sao Paulo Institute of Biblical Studies. From 1974 to

1976 Ted served as the pulpit minister of the Southern Hills

Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas and taught Bible courses at

Abilene Christian University. In 1976 they moved to Lubbock,

Texas, where Ted taught in the Sunset International Bible

Institute (SIBI). During Ted's twenty-eight year tenure at Sunset,

he served as an instructor, director of Missions, and Academic

Dean. He trained mission teams for many Latin Americ

a n c i t i e s . A t S u n s e t , T e d t a u g h t c o u r s e s i n G r e e k ,

Daniel/Ezekiel, and Apologetics.

In 2002 Ted published Solving the Exodus Mystery: Discovery

of the True Pharoahs of Joseph, Moses, and the Exodus,

culminating twenty-four years of meticulous research and

extensive writing. In 1991 Ted and Dot traveled to Egypt to

search for evidences for the book.Ted and Dot founded

and owned Sunset Book Store (Biblemart) for thirty years.

His goal was to give great discounts to students and

churches on Bibles and religious materials.

Ted Stewart is survived by his wife, Dot McAfee Stewart,

of Lubbock, Texas; two sons and two daughters, Kevin

Stewart and wife Monica Louise Stewart of Muskogee,

Okla., Brent Stewart and wife Patti Harris Stewart of Lubbock,

Texas, Cherie Stewart Sherwood and husband Ron

Sherwood of Gordon, Texas, and Trina Stewart Muehring

and husband Jeff Muehring of Norman, Okla.; 11 grandchildren;

two great-grandchildren; three brothers, Bob

Stewart and wife Patsy Stewart of Dallas, Texas, Don

Stewart and wife Linda Stewart of Baton Rouge, La., and

Doug Stewart of Minneapolis, Minn.; brother-in-law, Thomas

Mcafee and wife Kay McAfee; six nephews; and two

nieces.

The family suggests memorials to Sunset International

Bible Institute. To share your words of encouragement with

T e d ' s f a m i l y p l e a s e v i s i t

www.caringbridge.com/visit/T

edStewart.

Condolences may

be offered at www.resthavenfuneralhome.

com.