TRIBUTE TO GAYLE TUCKER – Mad About Marriage

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• GAYLE TUCKER, BELOVED MARRIAGE COUNSELOR ON FAH FOR TODAY TV, DEAD AT 60GAYLE TUCKER, ONE OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH’S BT-KNOWN FEMALE TELEVISN PERSONALI, AND A PASTOR, THOR, AND UNSELOR CREDED WH LIGHTG A FIRE UNR THOANDS OF MARRIAG, DIED LS THAN A MONTH AFTER LEARNG THAT SHE HAD PANCREATIC NCER. SHE WAS 60.TUCKER, ASSOCIATE SPEAKER OF THE FAH FOR TODAY TELEVISN MISTRY AND -HOST OF S POPULAR FLAGSHIP “LIFTYLE MAGAZE” PROGRAM, DIED ON SUNDAY, APRIL 10, AT HER HOME DALLAS, TEXAS.“I'M SORRY TO ANNOUNCE THAT GAYLE TUCKER PASSED AWAY LATE THIS AFTERNOON,” MIKE TUCKER, HER HBAND OF 40 YEARS AND THE SPEAKER AND DIRECTOR OF FAH FOR TODAY, WROTE SUNDAY NIGHT ON FACEBOOK. “SHE WAS SURROUND BY FAY AND DIED PEACEFULLY.”TUCKER TURNED TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO CHRONICLE HIS WIFE’S BRIEF STGGLE WH NCER AND TO UNRSRE THAT THEIR FAH WOULD REMA STRONG NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED.HE ANNOUNCED THE DISVERY OF THE NCER ON MARCH 19.“TWO WEEKS AGO GAYLE BEGAN HAVG STROK. SHE HAD ZERO STROKE RISK FACTORS AND YET SHE HAD STROK,” HE WROTE THE FACEBOOK POST. “IT TOOK ALMOST A WEEK AND A HALF OF MRI’S, CT SNS AND MORE BEFORE THEY FIGURED OUT. GAYLE HAS PANCREATIC NCER THAT HAS SPREAD TO HER LIVER. THIS NCER N E STROK.“WHILE MEDICE HAS NO CURE FOR THIS NDN, WE KNOW THE MASTER PHYSICIAN AND TST HIM,” HE SAID. “WE WILL ACCEPT HIS WILL WHATEVER MAY BE.”ABOUT A WEEK LATER, TUCKER SAID A FOLLOW-UP POST THAT HIS WIFE WAS RTG BETTER AND HAD GAED SOME PHYSIL STRENGTH.“GAYLE'S FAH IS STRONG, HER URAGE HIGH, AND HER HOPE SECURE,” HE SAID.SEVERAL TIM HE THANKED WELL-WISHERS FOR THEIR OVERWHELMG SUPPORT THROUGH PRAYER, RDS, LETTERS, FACEBOOK MSAG, AND E-MAILS.“WE LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!” HE WROTE ON MARCH 29. “GAYLE WEEPS WH EVERY NEW STORY OR TTIMONY OF LOVE FOR HER. IN FACT, WE N'T SHARE ALL OF THEM WH HER SCE HER TO WEEP, HER LOVE FOR YOU IS SO GREAT.”DANIEL R. JACKSON, PRINT OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCH NORTH AMERI AND A IEND OF THE TUCKERS FOR THE PAST , PAID TRIBUTE TO GAYLE TUCKER ON MONDAY FOR HAVG A TREMENDO IMPACT ON MARRIED UPL AND FOR MOLG A REMARKABLE MMENT TO MISTRY.“GAYLE WAS LOYAL TO GOD, TO MIKE, TO HER FAY, AND TO THE CHURCH, THAT ORR,” JACKSON SAID AN E-MAILED STATEMENT. “SHE WAS A GRAC, MATURE CHRISTIAN WHO WAS PASSNATE TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE GOSPEL OF J ULD AND SHOULD BE PLAYED OUT EVERYDAY LIFE AND EVERYDAY RELATNSHIPS.”HE AND OTHERS NOTED THAT GAYLE TUCKER HAD A WARM PERSONALY THAT SPARKED IMMEDIATE IENDSHIPS.“MY MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT WH GAYLE WAS THE FIRST TIME I MET WH HER AND MIKE,” HE SAID. “THERE WAS AN ALMOST STANT NNECTN WH HER AND MIKE THAT LASTED UNTIL THIS DAY.”HE WAS ECHOED BY ELAE OLIVER, -DIRECTOR OF THE ADVENTIST WORLD CHURCH’S FAY MISTRI PARTMENT, WHO WH HER HBAND, FAY MISTRI -DIRECTOR WILLIE OLIVER, NDUCTED MARRIAGE NFERENC WH THE TUCKERS ACROSS NORTH AMERI OM 2000 TO 2010.“THE FIRST TIME WE PRENTED TOGETHER AT OUR ONE-DAY MARRIAGE NFERENCE ‘FROM THIS DAY FORWARD,’ I WAS BATTLG NERV AND STAGE IGHT,” ELAE OLIVER SAID. “GAYLE HELD MY HANDS AND PRAYED FOR ME, REMDG ME THAT GOD WAS GOG TO GIVE ME THE STRENGTH AND URAGE I NEED. HER GENTLE STRENGTH WAS SO FORTG AND REASSURG.”FROM SCHOOLTEACHER TO TV PERSONALYGAYLE ANN WHACRE WAS BORN AUG. 26, 1955, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, TO JACK AND ETHEL WHACRE, THE OWNERS OF A SMALL GLASS BS.GAYLE, THE SEND OLST, ATTEND ADVENTIST SCHOOLS THROUGH LLEGE, GRADUATG 1976 WH AN ELEMENTARY TN GREE OM SOUTHWTERN ADVENTIST COLLEGE (NOW SOUTHWTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSY) KEENE, TEXAS.IT WAS AT SOUTHWTERN THAT SHE MET MIKE TUCKER, AND THE TWO WERE MARRIED ON DEC. 28, 1975 TULSA.AFTER TEACHG SCHOOL FOR SEVERAL YEARS, TUCKER JOED HER HBAND FULL-TIME MISTRY AT THE 2,000-MEMBER ARLGTON SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH ARLGTON, TEXAS, WHERE MIKE TUCKER SERVED AS SENR PASTOR. SHE WORKED AT THE CHURCH AS AN ASSOCIATE PASTOR FOR 16 YEARS, SERVG AS THE PASTOR OF ADMISTRATN, MIC, AND WORSHIP, WH A SPECIAL FOC ON CHILDREN’S AND WOMEN’S MISTRI. SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO BEE A CRENTIALED MISSNED MISTER THE ADVENTIST CHURCH’S SOUTHWTERN UNN CONFERENCE, WHICH CLUS TEXAS.IN 2004, MIKE TUCKER TOOK THE HELM AT FAH FOR TODAY, THE OLST RELIG TELEVISN BROADST THE WORLD, AND HIS WIFE JOED HIM ON THE TEAM. SHE LATER BEME -HOST OF “LIFTYLE MAGAZE” 2007 AND ASSOCIATE SPEAKER 2009.“I BELIEVE GAYLE TUCKER WAS THE MOST REGNIZED ADVENTIST FEMALE TELEVISN PERSONALY OUR NOMATN,” GORDON PIFHER, PRINT OF THE NORTH AMERIN DIVISN’S ADVENTIST MEDIA MISTRI AND CHAIR OF THE FAH FOR TODAY EXECUTIVE MTEE, SAID A STATEMENT. “GAYLE HAD LNS OF FANS AND FOLLOWERS AS HOST AND -HOST OF THE AWARD-WNG ‘LIFTYLE MAGAZE’ PROGRAM.”FAH FOR TODAY AND “LIFTYLE MAGAZE,” WHICH AIRS ON MORE THAN 150 TELEVISN CHANNELS WORLDWI, WILL NTUE TO BROADST, PIFHER SAID.“BUT GAYLE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED,” HE SAID.WILLIAM FAGAL, WHOSE PARENTS, WILLIAM A. AND VIRGIA FAGAL, FOUND FAH FOR TODAY 1950, RELLED HAVG SEVERAL NVERSATNS WH GAYLE TUCKER, CLUDG AT THE FAH FOR TODAY BOOTH AT THE GENERAL CONFERENCE SSN SAN ANTON LAST JULY.“GAYLE WAS RADIANT, FULL OF LIFE, AND PASSNATE ABOUT GOD'S WORK,” SAID FAGAL, WHO RETIRED AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE ELLEN G. WHE ESTATE LAST YEAR. “HER LOSS LEAV A LARGE HOLE, NOT ONLY THE LIV OF THOSE WHO KNEW AND LOVED HER, BUT THE RANKS OF GOD'S CHURCH.”TUCKER ED HER BACKGROUND ELEMENTARY TN TO MAKE FAY RELATNSHIPS A KEY FOC OF HER MISTRY. SHE AND HER HBAND -CREATED “MAD ABOUT MARRIAGE,” A SEMAR PROJECT THAT CLUS A TELEVISN SERI, MARRIAGE SEMARS, AND SMALL GROUP CURRICULUMS; AND -THORED THE BOOKS MAD ABOUT MARRIAGE, MANTRAS FOR MARRIAGE, AND MARRIAGE MOMENTS.WILLIE OLIVER SAID HE WOULD LONG REMEMBER LISTENG TO GAYLE TUCKER PRAY AHEAD OF THE MARRIAGE SEMARS THAT HE AND HIS WIFE PRENTED WH THE TUCKERS FOR 10 YEARS. AT THE TIME, WILLIE AND ELAE OLIVER DIRECTED FAY MISTRI FOR THE NORTH AMERIN DIVISN.“MY MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT ABOUT GAYLE WAS LISTENG TO HER PRAYERS ON BEHALF OF OUR OWN FAI AND THE UPL WE WOULD BE MISTERG TO THE FOLLOWG DAY,” WILLIE OLIVER SAID. “HER WORDS, TONE OF VOICE, AND EP FAH GOD ALWAYS MOVED ME TO GREATER TST THE MISSN GOD HAD GIVEN TO ACPLISH TOGETHER ON BEHALF OF HIS CHILDREN.”MOL OF A GODLY WOMANFUNERAL SERVIC FOR GAYLE TUCKER WILL BE HELD AT 3 P.M. APRIL 16 AT THE ARLGTON SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HBAND, MIKE; TWO ADULT DGHTERS, ALLISON TUCKER AND MICHAL ANNE WHB; SON--LAW LEVI WHB; AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN. PRECED ATH BY HER FATHER, SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER MOTHER, ETHEL WHACRE; SISTERS JONI DARMODY AND JULIE LTLE; BROTHER JACKSON WHACRE; ADOPTED BROTHER JON WHACRE; AND TWO NIEC AND SEVEN NEPHEWS.FAY AND IENDS SCRIBED GAYLE TUCKER AS A LIVG EXAMPLE OF A GODLY WOMAN.“THERE ARE A FEW WOMEN WHO STAND OUT TO ME AS VIRTUO WOMEN — AS THE EMBODIMENT OF CHRIST. AND WHOUT A DOUBT I SAW THAT NER BETY GAYLE THE FIRST TIME I MET HER,” SAID JENNIFER LAMOUNTA, VELOPMENT DIRECTOR AT FAH FOR TODAY, A SGER, AND A MEMBER OF TUCKERS’ EXTEND FAY.“SHE WAS A PASTOR AT THE TIME AND I HAD E TO PROVI A NCERT AT HER CHURCH,” SHE SAID. “WHAT A RELIEF WAS TO MEET GAYLE AND REALIZE SHE HAD ALREADY THOUGHT THROUGH EVERY NEED, EVERY SUATN, AND HAD EVERYTHG HAND. … CALMLY, JOYFULLY, AND EASILY SHE NAVIGATED EVERYTHG REQUIRED FOR CREATG AN ENVIRONMENT OF TE WORSHIP.”STEVE DARMODY, TUCKER’S BROTHER--LAW AND A IEND FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, SAID THE WORDS OF MIH 6:8 — “DO JTICE, LOVE KDNS, AND WALK HUMBLY WH GOD” — WERE A FTG SCRIPTN OF HIS SISTER--LAW’S LIFE.“THERE ARE NO BETTER WORDS TO SCRIBE HOW GAYLE ANN WHACRE TUCKER ACTUALLY LIVED HER LIFE,” SAID DARMODY, A GOSPEL RERDG ARTIST AND PRINT OF THE MORNG SONG MIC GROUP. “GAYLE FULFILLED THIS BIBLIL MANDATE WH BODY, HEART, MD, AND SPIR.”ELAE OLIVER SAID ANOTHER PASSAGE OF THE BIBLE ME TO MD WHEN SHE THOUGHT ABOUT GAYLE TUCKER.“SHE EPOMIZED THE WOMAN PROVERBS 31. SHE WAS A STRONG WOMAN OF FAH WHO ADORED HER HBAND, DOTED ON HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, AND WAS A FIERCE PROTECTOR OF HER FAY,” OLIVER SAID. “I’M A BETTER WIFE, MOTHER, AND MISTRY LEAR BEE OF WHAT I’VE LEARNED OM GAYLE.”ADVERTISEMENT VAR DISQ_TLE="GAYLE TUCKER, BELOVED MARRIAGE COUNSELOR ON FAH FOR TODAY TV, DEAD AT 60";VAR DISQ_URL=";VAR DISQ_INTIFIER="ADVENTISTREVIEW-5836"ADVERTISEMENTRELATED STORIES
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• REMEMBERG GAYLE TUCKERBY KATHY FAGAL PRALLI FIRST MET MIKE AND GAYLE TUCKER ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN THEY ME TO PORTLAND, OREGON, TO PRENT A FAH FOR TODAY FUND-RAISG WEEKEND SEMAR.MY MOM, VIRGIA FAGAL, ENURAGED TO TAKE PART THIS EVENT AND GET TO KNOW MIKE AND GAYLE PERSONALLY, BEE SHE WAS VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THEM AND THE WORK THEY WERE DOG TO NTUE THE LEGACY OF THE TELEVISN SHOW LNCHED BY MY PARENTS, WILLIAM A. AND VIRGIA FAGAL, 1950.MY HBAND DID ALL HE ULD TO AVOID ATTENDANCE AT THE EVENT. HE KNEW THAT FAH FOR TODAY HAD ORIGALLY BEEN LNCHED AS A CUTTG-EDGE MISTRY, DOG WHAT OTHERS RELIG TELEVISN WERE NOT DOG. AND HE ASSOCIATED THE NEW HOSTS OF FAH FOR TODAY WH ANOTHER MISTRY THAT HE PERCEIVED AS ANYTHG BUT CUTTG EDGE. BUT MOM FAGAL NVCED HIM THAT GAYLE AND MIKE, WHO TOOK THE RES AT FAH FOR TODAY 2004, HAD HER NFINCE AND THAT THE MISTRY STILL HAD S HISTORIC FOC ON THE UNCHURCHED.ON FRIDAY EVENG, GAYLE AND JENNIFER LAMOUNTA LED THE PRAISE SGG. GAYLE SENSED MY JOY THE MIC AND VED ME TO JO HER AND JENNIFER LEADG THE MIC FOR THE RT OF THE WEEKEND.I WAS LIGHTED AND HONORED TO BE CLUD. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD BEEN PART OF FAH FOR TODAY’S MIC SCE SGG ON THE SHOW MANY YEARS AGO. MY HBAND QUICKLY REALIZED THAT GAYLE AND MIKE WERE EVERY B AS CREATIVE AS THOSE WHO HAD SHEPHERD THE MISTRY SCE S CEPTN. IT WAS THE BEGNG OF A SPECIAL BOND BETWEEN THE PRALLS, THE TUCKERS, AND JENNIFER.MAY 2010 MARKED THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE START OF FAH FOR TODAY. MIKE AND GAYLE VED MY BROTHER AND ME TO THE “LIFTYLE MAGAZE” STUD SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, TO BE PART OF THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW. WE WERE LIGHTED TO BE CLUD WH OTHER FAH FOR TODAY ALUMNI. WHEN WE TOLD MOM FAGAL ABOUT THE PLAN, SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD BE FEELG BETTER BY THEN AND WOULD BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE, TOO.SADLY, MOM PASSED AWAY FEBARY 2010. MIKE AND GAYLE PARTICIPATED HER MEMORIAL SERVICE. GAYLE HAD SUCH A QUIET NFINCE ABOUT HER, AND SPOKE WORDS OF ENURAGEMENT TO ME PERSONALLY. THEIR PRENCE BROUGHT FORT TO ME AT A VERY DIFFICULT TIME.WHEN WE TAPED THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW A MONTH LATER, AGA GAYLE WAS FORTG HER OWN QUIET WAY. SHE UNRSTOOD MY GRIEF. IN SEPTEMBER OF THAT SAME YEAR, SHE SENT ME A LETTER REMEMBERG MOM ON WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HER 93RD BIRTHDAY. A YEAR LATER, ON MOM’S 94TH BIRTHDAY, SHE TOOK THE TIME OUT OF HER BY SCHLE TO SEND ME A HANDWRTEN NOTE AGA HONORG MOM AND SHARG HER SUPPORT FOR ME. SHE ULD NOT HAVE KNOWN HOW MUCH I WAS GRIEVG, YET SHE UNRSTOOD MY GRIEF. I SAVED THAT NOTE OM HER. IT IS ONE MORE SIGN OF GAYLE’S RE FOR OTHERS, HER TUIVE MISTERG TO THEIR NEEDS.WE ARE NOW PART OF A NGREGATN DECHERD, TENNSEE, THAT IS TOO REMOTE AND SMALL TO ATTRACT THE BIG NAM OF ADVENTISM. HOWEVER, LATE 2015 MIKE LLED TO TELL THAT FAH FOR TODAY WOULD BE G TO OUR CHURCH FOR A WEEKEND. GAYLE AND I SUBSEQUENTLY CID THAT THEIR “MAD ABOUT MARRIAGE” SEMAR, AN EVENT UALLY RERVED FOR MUCH LARGER VENU, WOULD BE A PERFECT OUTREACH FOR OUR RAL MUNY.GAYLE’S ATTENTN TO TAIL PULLED ALL THE PIEC TOGETHER EFFORTLSLY AND THE WEEKEND WAS A BIG H WH THOSE WHO ATTEND. GAYLE AND MIKE WERE TRANSPARENT, SHARG SOME OF THEIR OWN ERRORS AND SUCCS. THE CROWD LOVED THEM. THE WEEKEND WAS A HIGH POT OF OUR RECENT CHURCH HISTORY. GAYLE, 60, LOOKED HEALTHY AND VIBRANT. WHAT A SHOCK WHEN WE HEARD OF GAYLE’S SER ILLNS JT A MONTH LATER. SHE SUCCUMBED TO PANCREATIC NCER ON APRIL 10.GAYLE WAS A GENTLE AND RG PERSON, A BETIFUL LIGHT THAT HAS GONE OUT. I WISH WE HAD LIVED CLOSER TO EACH OTHER SO THAT WE ULD HAVE HAD MORE TIME WH HER.I LOOK FORWARD TO HEAVEN WHERE PROXIMY WILL NOT KEEP APART. I KNOW SHE WILL BE THERE, RG FOR OTHERS JT AS SHE DID ON THIS EARTH. THAT’S WHO SHE IS — SHOWG THE LOVE OF J TO ALL SHE MEETS.READ ALSO: GAYLE TUCKER, BELOVED MARRIAGE COUNSELOR ON FAH FOR TODAY TV, DEAD AT 60ADVERTISEMENT VAR DISQ_TLE="REMEMBERG GAYLE TUCKER";VAR DISQ_URL=";VAR DISQ_INTIFIER="ADVENTISTREVIEW-5867"ADVERTISEMENTRELATED STORIES
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GAYLE TUCKER, BELOVED MARRIAGE COUNSELOR ON FAH FOR TODAY TV, DEAD AT 60GAYLE TUCKER, ONE OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH’S BT-KNOWN FEMALE TELEVISN PERSONALI, AND A PASTOR, THOR, AND UNSELOR CREDED WH LIGHTG A FIRE UNR THOANDS OF MARRIAG, DIED LS THAN A MONTH AFTER LEARNG THAT SHE HAD PANCREATIC NCER. SHE WAS 60.TUCKER, ASSOCIATE SPEAKER OF THE FAH FOR TODAY TELEVISN MISTRY AND -HOST OF S POPULAR FLAGSHIP “LIFTYLE MAGAZE” PROGRAM, DIED ON SUNDAY, APRIL 10, AT HER HOME DALLAS, TEXAS.“I'M SORRY TO ANNOUNCE THAT GAYLE TUCKER PASSED AWAY LATE THIS AFTERNOON,” MIKE TUCKER, HER HBAND OF 40 YEARS AND THE SPEAKER AND DIRECTOR OF FAH FOR TODAY, WROTE SUNDAY NIGHT ON FACEBOOK. “SHE WAS SURROUND BY FAY AND DIED PEACEFULLY.”TUCKER TURNED TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO CHRONICLE HIS WIFE’S BRIEF STGGLE WH NCER AND TO UNRSRE THAT THEIR FAH WOULD REMA STRONG NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED.HE ANNOUNCED THE DISVERY OF THE NCER ON MARCH 19.“TWO WEEKS AGO GAYLE BEGAN HAVG STROK. SHE HAD ZERO STROKE RISK FACTORS AND YET SHE HAD STROK,” HE WROTE THE FACEBOOK POST. “IT TOOK ALMOST A WEEK AND A HALF OF MRI’S, CT SNS AND MORE BEFORE THEY FIGURED OUT. GAYLE HAS PANCREATIC NCER THAT HAS SPREAD TO HER LIVER. THIS NCER N E STROK.“WHILE MEDICE HAS NO CURE FOR THIS NDN, WE KNOW THE MASTER PHYSICIAN AND TST HIM,” HE SAID. “WE WILL ACCEPT HIS WILL WHATEVER MAY BE.”ABOUT A WEEK LATER, TUCKER SAID A FOLLOW-UP POST THAT HIS WIFE WAS RTG BETTER AND HAD GAED SOME PHYSIL STRENGTH.“GAYLE'S FAH IS STRONG, HER URAGE HIGH, AND HER HOPE SECURE,” HE SAID.SEVERAL TIM HE THANKED WELL-WISHERS FOR THEIR OVERWHELMG SUPPORT THROUGH PRAYER, RDS, LETTERS, FACEBOOK MSAG, AND E-MAILS.“WE LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!” HE WROTE ON MARCH 29. “GAYLE WEEPS WH EVERY NEW STORY OR TTIMONY OF LOVE FOR HER. IN FACT, WE N'T SHARE ALL OF THEM WH HER SCE HER TO WEEP, HER LOVE FOR YOU IS SO GREAT.”DANIEL R. JACKSON, PRINT OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCH NORTH AMERI AND A IEND OF THE TUCKERS FOR THE PAST , PAID TRIBUTE TO GAYLE TUCKER ON MONDAY FOR HAVG A TREMENDO IMPACT ON MARRIED UPL AND FOR MOLG A REMARKABLE MMENT TO MISTRY.“GAYLE WAS LOYAL TO GOD, TO MIKE, TO HER FAY, AND TO THE CHURCH, THAT ORR,” JACKSON SAID AN E-MAILED STATEMENT. “SHE WAS A GRAC, MATURE CHRISTIAN WHO WAS PASSNATE TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE GOSPEL OF J ULD AND SHOULD BE PLAYED OUT EVERYDAY LIFE AND EVERYDAY RELATNSHIPS.”HE AND OTHERS NOTED THAT GAYLE TUCKER HAD A WARM PERSONALY THAT SPARKED IMMEDIATE IENDSHIPS.“MY MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT WH GAYLE WAS THE FIRST TIME I MET WH HER AND MIKE,” HE SAID. “THERE WAS AN ALMOST STANT NNECTN WH HER AND MIKE THAT LASTED UNTIL THIS DAY.”HE WAS ECHOED BY ELAE OLIVER, -DIRECTOR OF THE ADVENTIST WORLD CHURCH’S FAY MISTRI PARTMENT, WHO WH HER HBAND, FAY MISTRI -DIRECTOR WILLIE OLIVER, NDUCTED MARRIAGE NFERENC WH THE TUCKERS ACROSS NORTH AMERI OM 2000 TO 2010.“THE FIRST TIME WE PRENTED TOGETHER AT OUR ONE-DAY MARRIAGE NFERENCE ‘FROM THIS DAY FORWARD,’ I WAS BATTLG NERV AND STAGE IGHT,” ELAE OLIVER SAID. “GAYLE HELD MY HANDS AND PRAYED FOR ME, REMDG ME THAT GOD WAS GOG TO GIVE ME THE STRENGTH AND URAGE I NEED. HER GENTLE STRENGTH WAS SO FORTG AND REASSURG.”FROM SCHOOLTEACHER TO TV PERSONALYGAYLE ANN WHACRE WAS BORN AUG. 26, 1955, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, TO JACK AND ETHEL WHACRE, THE OWNERS OF A SMALL GLASS BS.GAYLE, THE SEND OLST, ATTEND ADVENTIST SCHOOLS THROUGH LLEGE, GRADUATG 1976 WH AN ELEMENTARY TN GREE OM SOUTHWTERN ADVENTIST COLLEGE (NOW SOUTHWTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSY) KEENE, TEXAS.IT WAS AT SOUTHWTERN THAT SHE MET MIKE TUCKER, AND THE TWO WERE MARRIED ON DEC. 28, 1975 TULSA.AFTER TEACHG SCHOOL FOR SEVERAL YEARS, TUCKER JOED HER HBAND FULL-TIME MISTRY AT THE 2,000-MEMBER ARLGTON SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH ARLGTON, TEXAS, WHERE MIKE TUCKER SERVED AS SENR PASTOR. SHE WORKED AT THE CHURCH AS AN ASSOCIATE PASTOR FOR 16 YEARS, SERVG AS THE PASTOR OF ADMISTRATN, MIC, AND WORSHIP, WH A SPECIAL FOC ON CHILDREN’S AND WOMEN’S MISTRI. SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO BEE A CRENTIALED MISSNED MISTER THE ADVENTIST CHURCH’S SOUTHWTERN UNN CONFERENCE, WHICH CLUS TEXAS.IN 2004, MIKE TUCKER TOOK THE HELM AT FAH FOR TODAY, THE OLST RELIG TELEVISN BROADST THE WORLD, AND HIS WIFE JOED HIM ON THE TEAM. SHE LATER BEME -HOST OF “LIFTYLE MAGAZE” 2007 AND ASSOCIATE SPEAKER 2009.“I BELIEVE GAYLE TUCKER WAS THE MOST REGNIZED ADVENTIST FEMALE TELEVISN PERSONALY OUR NOMATN,” GORDON PIFHER, PRINT OF THE NORTH AMERIN DIVISN’S ADVENTIST MEDIA MISTRI AND CHAIR OF THE FAH FOR TODAY EXECUTIVE MTEE, SAID A STATEMENT. “GAYLE HAD LNS OF FANS AND FOLLOWERS AS HOST AND -HOST OF THE AWARD-WNG ‘LIFTYLE MAGAZE’ PROGRAM.”FAH FOR TODAY AND “LIFTYLE MAGAZE,” WHICH AIRS ON MORE THAN 150 TELEVISN CHANNELS WORLDWI, WILL NTUE TO BROADST, PIFHER SAID.“BUT GAYLE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED,” HE SAID.WILLIAM FAGAL, WHOSE PARENTS, WILLIAM A. AND VIRGIA FAGAL, FOUND FAH FOR TODAY 1950, RELLED HAVG SEVERAL NVERSATNS WH GAYLE TUCKER, CLUDG AT THE FAH FOR TODAY BOOTH AT THE GENERAL CONFERENCE SSN SAN ANTON LAST JULY.“GAYLE WAS RADIANT, FULL OF LIFE, AND PASSNATE ABOUT GOD'S WORK,” SAID FAGAL, WHO RETIRED AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE ELLEN G. WHE ESTATE LAST YEAR. “HER LOSS LEAV A LARGE HOLE, NOT ONLY THE LIV OF THOSE WHO KNEW AND LOVED HER, BUT THE RANKS OF GOD'S CHURCH.”TUCKER ED HER BACKGROUND ELEMENTARY TN TO MAKE FAY RELATNSHIPS A KEY FOC OF HER MISTRY. SHE AND HER HBAND -CREATED “MAD ABOUT MARRIAGE,” A SEMAR PROJECT THAT CLUS A TELEVISN SERI, MARRIAGE SEMARS, AND SMALL GROUP CURRICULUMS; AND -THORED THE BOOKS MAD ABOUT MARRIAGE, MANTRAS FOR MARRIAGE, AND MARRIAGE MOMENTS.WILLIE OLIVER SAID HE WOULD LONG REMEMBER LISTENG TO GAYLE TUCKER PRAY AHEAD OF THE MARRIAGE SEMARS THAT HE AND HIS WIFE PRENTED WH THE TUCKERS FOR 10 YEARS. AT THE TIME, WILLIE AND ELAE OLIVER DIRECTED FAY MISTRI FOR THE NORTH AMERIN DIVISN.“MY MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT ABOUT GAYLE WAS LISTENG TO HER PRAYERS ON BEHALF OF OUR OWN FAI AND THE UPL WE WOULD BE MISTERG TO THE FOLLOWG DAY,” WILLIE OLIVER SAID. “HER WORDS, TONE OF VOICE, AND EP FAH GOD ALWAYS MOVED ME TO GREATER TST THE MISSN GOD HAD GIVEN TO ACPLISH TOGETHER ON BEHALF OF HIS CHILDREN.”MOL OF A GODLY WOMANFUNERAL SERVIC FOR GAYLE TUCKER WILL BE HELD AT 3 P.M. APRIL 16 AT THE ARLGTON SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HBAND, MIKE; TWO ADULT DGHTERS, ALLISON TUCKER AND MICHAL ANNE WHB; SON--LAW LEVI WHB; AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN. PRECED ATH BY HER FATHER, SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER MOTHER, ETHEL WHACRE; SISTERS JONI DARMODY AND JULIE LTLE; BROTHER JACKSON WHACRE; ADOPTED BROTHER JON WHACRE; AND TWO NIEC AND SEVEN NEPHEWS.FAY AND IENDS SCRIBED GAYLE TUCKER AS A LIVG EXAMPLE OF A GODLY WOMAN.“THERE ARE A FEW WOMEN WHO STAND OUT TO ME AS VIRTUO WOMEN — AS THE EMBODIMENT OF CHRIST. AND WHOUT A DOUBT I SAW THAT NER BETY GAYLE THE FIRST TIME I MET HER,” SAID JENNIFER LAMOUNTA, VELOPMENT DIRECTOR AT FAH FOR TODAY, A SGER, AND A MEMBER OF TUCKERS’ EXTEND FAY.“SHE WAS A PASTOR AT THE TIME AND I HAD E TO PROVI A NCERT AT HER CHURCH,” SHE SAID. “WHAT A RELIEF WAS TO MEET GAYLE AND REALIZE SHE HAD ALREADY THOUGHT THROUGH EVERY NEED, EVERY SUATN, AND HAD EVERYTHG HAND. … CALMLY, JOYFULLY, AND EASILY SHE NAVIGATED EVERYTHG REQUIRED FOR CREATG AN ENVIRONMENT OF TE WORSHIP.”STEVE DARMODY, TUCKER’S BROTHER--LAW AND A IEND FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, SAID THE WORDS OF MIH 6:8 — “DO JTICE, LOVE KDNS, AND WALK HUMBLY WH GOD” — WERE A FTG SCRIPTN OF HIS SISTER--LAW’S LIFE.“THERE ARE NO BETTER WORDS TO SCRIBE HOW GAYLE ANN WHACRE TUCKER ACTUALLY LIVED HER LIFE,” SAID DARMODY, A GOSPEL RERDG ARTIST AND PRINT OF THE MORNG SONG MIC GROUP. “GAYLE FULFILLED THIS BIBLIL MANDATE WH BODY, HEART, MD, AND SPIR.”ELAE OLIVER SAID ANOTHER PASSAGE OF THE BIBLE ME TO MD WHEN SHE THOUGHT ABOUT GAYLE TUCKER.“SHE EPOMIZED THE WOMAN PROVERBS 31. SHE WAS A STRONG WOMAN OF FAH WHO ADORED HER HBAND, DOTED ON HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, AND WAS A FIERCE PROTECTOR OF HER FAY,” OLIVER SAID. “I’M A BETTER WIFE, MOTHER, AND MISTRY LEAR BEE OF WHAT I’VE LEARNED OM GAYLE.”ADVERTISEMENT VAR DISQ_TLE="GAYLE TUCKER, BELOVED MARRIAGE COUNSELOR ON FAH FOR TODAY TV, DEAD AT 60";VAR DISQ_URL=";VAR DISQ_INTIFIER="ADVENTISTREVIEW-5836"ADVERTISEMENTRELATED STORIES

Gayle Tucker, one of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s bt-known female televisn personali, and a pastor, thor, and unselor creded wh lightg a fire unr thoands of marriag, died ls than a month after learng that she had pancreatic ncer.

TRIBUTE TO GAYLE TUCKER

“I'm sorry to announce that Gayle Tucker passed away late this afternoon, ” Mike Tucker, her hband of 40 years and the speaker and director of Fah For Today, wrote Sunday night on Facebook. “Two weeks ago Gayle began havg strok. Gayle has pancreatic ncer that has spread to her liver.

“Gayle's fah is strong, her urage high, and her hope secure, ” he said. “Gayle weeps wh every new story or ttimony of love for her. Jackson, print of the Adventist Church North Ameri and a iend of the Tuckers for the past , paid tribute to Gayle Tucker on Monday for havg a tremendo impact on married upl and for molg a remarkable mment to mistry.

REMEMBERG GAYLE TUCKERBY KATHY FAGAL PRALLI FIRST MET MIKE AND GAYLE TUCKER ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN THEY ME TO PORTLAND, OREGON, TO PRENT A FAH FOR TODAY FUND-RAISG WEEKEND SEMAR.MY MOM, VIRGIA FAGAL, ENURAGED TO TAKE PART THIS EVENT AND GET TO KNOW MIKE AND GAYLE PERSONALLY, BEE SHE WAS VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THEM AND THE WORK THEY WERE DOG TO NTUE THE LEGACY OF THE TELEVISN SHOW LNCHED BY MY PARENTS, WILLIAM A. AND VIRGIA FAGAL, 1950.MY HBAND DID ALL HE ULD TO AVOID ATTENDANCE AT THE EVENT. HE KNEW THAT FAH FOR TODAY HAD ORIGALLY BEEN LNCHED AS A CUTTG-EDGE MISTRY, DOG WHAT OTHERS RELIG TELEVISN WERE NOT DOG. AND HE ASSOCIATED THE NEW HOSTS OF FAH FOR TODAY WH ANOTHER MISTRY THAT HE PERCEIVED AS ANYTHG BUT CUTTG EDGE. BUT MOM FAGAL NVCED HIM THAT GAYLE AND MIKE, WHO TOOK THE RES AT FAH FOR TODAY 2004, HAD HER NFINCE AND THAT THE MISTRY STILL HAD S HISTORIC FOC ON THE UNCHURCHED.ON FRIDAY EVENG, GAYLE AND JENNIFER LAMOUNTA LED THE PRAISE SGG. GAYLE SENSED MY JOY THE MIC AND VED ME TO JO HER AND JENNIFER LEADG THE MIC FOR THE RT OF THE WEEKEND.I WAS LIGHTED AND HONORED TO BE CLUD. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD BEEN PART OF FAH FOR TODAY’S MIC SCE SGG ON THE SHOW MANY YEARS AGO. MY HBAND QUICKLY REALIZED THAT GAYLE AND MIKE WERE EVERY B AS CREATIVE AS THOSE WHO HAD SHEPHERD THE MISTRY SCE S CEPTN. IT WAS THE BEGNG OF A SPECIAL BOND BETWEEN THE PRALLS, THE TUCKERS, AND JENNIFER.MAY 2010 MARKED THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE START OF FAH FOR TODAY. MIKE AND GAYLE VED MY BROTHER AND ME TO THE “LIFTYLE MAGAZE” STUD SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, TO BE PART OF THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW. WE WERE LIGHTED TO BE CLUD WH OTHER FAH FOR TODAY ALUMNI. WHEN WE TOLD MOM FAGAL ABOUT THE PLAN, SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD BE FEELG BETTER BY THEN AND WOULD BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE, TOO.SADLY, MOM PASSED AWAY FEBARY 2010. MIKE AND GAYLE PARTICIPATED HER MEMORIAL SERVICE. GAYLE HAD SUCH A QUIET NFINCE ABOUT HER, AND SPOKE WORDS OF ENURAGEMENT TO ME PERSONALLY. THEIR PRENCE BROUGHT FORT TO ME AT A VERY DIFFICULT TIME.WHEN WE TAPED THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW A MONTH LATER, AGA GAYLE WAS FORTG HER OWN QUIET WAY. SHE UNRSTOOD MY GRIEF. IN SEPTEMBER OF THAT SAME YEAR, SHE SENT ME A LETTER REMEMBERG MOM ON WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HER 93RD BIRTHDAY. A YEAR LATER, ON MOM’S 94TH BIRTHDAY, SHE TOOK THE TIME OUT OF HER BY SCHLE TO SEND ME A HANDWRTEN NOTE AGA HONORG MOM AND SHARG HER SUPPORT FOR ME. SHE ULD NOT HAVE KNOWN HOW MUCH I WAS GRIEVG, YET SHE UNRSTOOD MY GRIEF. I SAVED THAT NOTE OM HER. IT IS ONE MORE SIGN OF GAYLE’S RE FOR OTHERS, HER TUIVE MISTERG TO THEIR NEEDS.WE ARE NOW PART OF A NGREGATN DECHERD, TENNSEE, THAT IS TOO REMOTE AND SMALL TO ATTRACT THE BIG NAM OF ADVENTISM. HOWEVER, LATE 2015 MIKE LLED TO TELL THAT FAH FOR TODAY WOULD BE G TO OUR CHURCH FOR A WEEKEND. GAYLE AND I SUBSEQUENTLY CID THAT THEIR “MAD ABOUT MARRIAGE” SEMAR, AN EVENT UALLY RERVED FOR MUCH LARGER VENU, WOULD BE A PERFECT OUTREACH FOR OUR RAL MUNY.GAYLE’S ATTENTN TO TAIL PULLED ALL THE PIEC TOGETHER EFFORTLSLY AND THE WEEKEND WAS A BIG H WH THOSE WHO ATTEND. GAYLE AND MIKE WERE TRANSPARENT, SHARG SOME OF THEIR OWN ERRORS AND SUCCS. THE CROWD LOVED THEM. THE WEEKEND WAS A HIGH POT OF OUR RECENT CHURCH HISTORY. GAYLE, 60, LOOKED HEALTHY AND VIBRANT. WHAT A SHOCK WHEN WE HEARD OF GAYLE’S SER ILLNS JT A MONTH LATER. SHE SUCCUMBED TO PANCREATIC NCER ON APRIL 10.GAYLE WAS A GENTLE AND RG PERSON, A BETIFUL LIGHT THAT HAS GONE OUT. I WISH WE HAD LIVED CLOSER TO EACH OTHER SO THAT WE ULD HAVE HAD MORE TIME WH HER.I LOOK FORWARD TO HEAVEN WHERE PROXIMY WILL NOT KEEP APART. I KNOW SHE WILL BE THERE, RG FOR OTHERS JT AS SHE DID ON THIS EARTH. THAT’S WHO SHE IS — SHOWG THE LOVE OF J TO ALL SHE MEETS.READ ALSO: GAYLE TUCKER, BELOVED MARRIAGE COUNSELOR ON FAH FOR TODAY TV, DEAD AT 60ADVERTISEMENT VAR DISQ_TLE="REMEMBERG GAYLE TUCKER";VAR DISQ_URL=";VAR DISQ_INTIFIER="ADVENTISTREVIEW-5867"ADVERTISEMENTRELATED STORIES

“Gayle was loyal to God, to Mike, to her fay, and to the church, that orr, ” Jackson said an e-mailed statement. ”He and others noted that Gayle Tucker had a warm personaly that sparked immediate iendships. “My most memorable moment wh Gayle was the first time I met wh her and Mike, ” he said.

“Gayle held my hands and prayed for me, remdg me that God was gog to give me the strength and urage I need. ”From Schoolteacher to TV PersonalyGayle Ann Whacre was born Aug. “I believe Gayle Tucker was the most regnized Adventist female televisn personaly our nomatn, ” Gordon Pifher, print of the North Amerin Divisn’s Adventist Media Mistri and chair of the Fah For Today executive mtee, said a statement.

“Gayle had lns of fans and followers as host and -host of the award-wng ‘Liftyle Magaze’ program. “But Gayle will be greatly missed, ” he said. And Virgia Fagal, found Fah For Today 1950, relled havg several nversatns wh Gayle Tucker, cludg at the Fah For Today booth at the General Conference Ssn San Anton last July.

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“Gayle was radiant, full of life, and passnate about God's work, ” said Fagal, who retired as associate director of the Ellen G.

She and her hband -created “Mad About Marriage, ” a semar project that clus a televisn seri, marriage semars, and small group curriculums; and -thored the books Mad About Marriage, Mantras for Marriage, and Marriage Oliver said he would long remember listeng to Gayle Tucker pray ahead of the marriage semars that he and his wife prented wh the Tuckers for 10 years. “My most memorable moment about Gayle was listeng to her prayers on behalf of our own fai and the upl we would be misterg to the followg day, ” Willie Oliver said.

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”Mol of a Godly WomanFuneral servic for Gayle Tucker will be held at 3 p. Preced ath by her father, she is also survived by her mother, Ethel Whacre; sisters Joni Darmody and Julie Ltle; brother Jackson Whacre; adopted brother Jon Whacre; and two niec and seven and iends scribed Gayle Tucker as a livg example of a godly woman.

And whout a doubt I saw that ner bety Gayle the first time I met her, ” said Jennifer LaMounta, velopment director at Fah For Today, a sger, and a member of Tuckers’ extend fay. “What a relief was to meet Gayle and realize she had already thought through every need, every suatn, and had everythg hand.

“There are no better words to scribe how Gayle Ann Whacre Tucker actually lived her life, ” said Darmody, a gospel rerdg artist and print of the Morng Song Mic Group. “Gayle fulfilled this biblil mandate wh body, heart, md, and spir.