It is with delight and exceeding joy that I announce that on Friday, April 8, 2011, Lonnie and Betty Rex of Spring, TX, will celebrate their 62nd Wedding Anniversary.
I met Lonnie and Betty in 1954 at the National Pentecostal Holiness Church when Ray Stewart was the pastor. At that time, during the Administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Vice President Richard Nixon, that I played trombone in the Marine Corps Band at Quantico, VA. I arrived at Quantico after boot camp at Paris Island, SC, in the fall of 1953, but it took me a few months to connect with our church. However, when I did, I stayed with the church and hitched-hiked every Sunday and Wednesday night to attend worship there.
Lonnie and Betty Rex are well know musicians in the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Lonnie taught music at Southwestern College and took his college choir on tours back east. He was courageous when he raised the money to purchase choir robes for the singers. In those days, they couldn't afford to charter a commercial bus, but drove cars and vans, and lived from one church to the next from the free-will offerings to buy gasoline and food along the journey. But, God miraculously supplied their need, many times at the last minute.
Lonnie and Betty are gifted pianists and organists. They have often played twin concert grand piano concerts in churches and auditoriums all across this nation. They are real musical artists and there was none better during their heyday.
Lonnie Rex will long be remembered for his magnificent choirs at General Conferences and General Sunday School Conventions. No one could put together a better or bigger conference choir and orchestra than Lonnie. Betty was always there at the grand piano with a touch of a gifted Pentecostal pianist with a style that is almost beyond description.
When I visit them in their luxurious home in Spring, TX, I always request that Betty played for me songs like, "The Eastern Gate," "I'll See You in the Rapture," "Until Then," and many more wonderful songs that you will readily remember from days gone bye.
Lonnie Rex worked for some notable world renowned evangelists like Oral Roberts, T. L. Osbourne, Billy James Hargis, and others. He helped Oral get on television and radio stations, and writing letters to the partners. No one in the known world is better at writing letters that get results than Lonnie Rex. However, he is a silent partner and always stays in the background.
Probably, the most important work of Lonnie Rex was his founding of the David Livingstone Foundation, a humanitarian non-profit organization that brought food, clothing, medical supplies, ambulances, modern medical equipment for doctors, and the building of hospitals and orphanages.
Lonnie is known by world leaders, and even had an audience with one of the Popes.
Behind every successful man is a gifted and talented woman and a surprised mother-in-law.
Why not send a belated anniversary card to Lonnie and Betty Rex?
Here is their mailing address in Spring, TX.
Lonnie and Betty Rex
7914 Oxfordshire Drive
Spring, TX 77379
Let us wish Lonnie and Betty a happy and wonderful 62nd Wedding Anniversary.
Posted on
Fri, April 8, 2011
by Hugh Morgan