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
edStewart.
Condolences may
be offered at www.resthavenfuneralhome.
com.
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