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Source: Daily Ardmoreite, Ardmore, Oklahoma
KEENE, Texas -- Services for former Ardmore resident William Vernon Wiist, 75, are scheduled for 2 p.m. today at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Keene, Texas.
Wiist died Oct. 7, 1998, at his home. He was born Sept. 29, 1923, near Henrietta, Texas, to Jacob and Elizabeth Wiist.
Reared near Wichita Falls, Texas, he served in the Army in the South Pacific during World War II and was, at the age of 20, the youngest battalion sergeant major in the Pacific Theatre. After his discharge, he graduated from Union College in Lincoln, Neb., and became business manager of Seventh-day Adventist Sunnydale Academy in Missouri. He and Arlene Rae Thomas were married May 27, 1951.
He entered overseas mission service with the Inter-American Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and served as an officer in the Dominican Conference and Central American Union. He was ordained a minister in 1959, and in 1964, became administrator of the Ardmore Adventist Hospital, developing it from a 25-bed to 105-bed facility. He next planned, designed and supervised construction and staff at Huguley Memorial Hospital in Fort Worth, and was treasurer of the Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventist before he retired.
At the time of his death he had served 14 years as board chairman and president of the Ardmore Institute of Health, parent corporation of the Lifestyle Center of America, near Ardmore, and was on the board at First National Bank, Ardmore, and First State Bank, Keene.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; two daughters, Linda Knutson, Burleson, Texas, and Debbie Speyer, Arlington, Texas; a son, W. Michael, Keene; a sister, Ruth Tammen, Wichita Falls, Texas; and four grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Keene Seventh-day Adventist Church building fund.
Crosier-Pearson-Mayfield Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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