Lda Gayle Tucker Obuary (1952 - 2023) | Halifax, Virgia

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• GAYLE ANNE TUCKER
• 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
• LDA GAYLE TUCKER OBUARY
• TRIBUTE TO GAYLE TUCKER

GAYLE ANNE TUCKER

Gayle Anne (Whacre) Tucker was born on Augt 26, 1955 Tulsa, Oklahoma, and passed to her rt Dallas, Texas on April 10, 2016, after a brief battle wh attend Tulsa Junr Amy for 10 years and pleted her high school tn at Ozark Adventist Amy 1973.

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 voted her life to mistry, servg as a teacher, mister of mic and associate pastor of children's and women's mistri at the Arlgton Adventist Church, and was associate speaker of the televisn mistry, Fah for is survived by her hband, Michael Tucker; two dghters, Allison Tucker of Dallas; Michal Anne Whb of Dallas, son--law, Levi Whb, and two grandchildren, Anna and Anrson Whb. memory of Gayle Anne Tucker, please vis our floral store.

LDA GAYLE TUCKER OBUARY

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. “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.

TRIBUTE TO GAYLE TUCKER

“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. “Gayle was loyal to God, to Mike, to her fay, and to the church, that orr, ” Jackson said an e-mailed statement.