Background
She was born near Gatesville in central Texas and attended rural public schools in the area.
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Twelve inspirational messages, each based on a verse of scripture. The messages by Sybil Leonard Armes abound with gems of applicable illustrations and original poetry. The need of a deeper dedication and the urgency of our task as Christians is constantly underscored.
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She was born near Gatesville in central Texas and attended rural public schools in the area.
University of Mary Hardin–Baylor.
Among her survivors is Paul Woodson Armes (born 1950), the president of Wayland Baptist University in Plainview in Hale County in the South Plains, who previously was the pastor of a Baptist church in Corpus Christi. Mistress Armes wrote four books of religious poetry and hundreds of devotional poems for various church and denominational publications. She also penned two books of religious meditations.
She then enrolled in the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (then Baylor College for Women) in Belton, the seat of Bell County near Temple in central Texas.
The couple was wed for sixty-one years until his death. Mistress Armes was a teacher for a time.
One of her students was the future Dallas Cowboys coach, Tom Landry, a native of Mission in south Texas. Woodson Armes taught at Baylor University in Waco and pastored for twenty-six years congregations in Waco, Fort Worth, and El Paso.
In 1961, Mistress Armes was the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor convocation speaker.
She was given an honorary doctor of letters degree. She also served as a UMHB trustee from 1972 to 1981. She was listed in Who"s Who in American Women.
Mistress
Armes died in a Dallas-area nursing home, where she had resided during her last years. Ashley Armes is a history professor at Wayland Baptist University. A musical scholarship has been established at Wayland University in Mistress
Armes" name.
Ten days after Armes" death, a second Christian writer in Texas, Jo Carr, a Methodist woman, died at her home in Lubbock.
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