Verna May Linzey

Background

Linzey, Verna May was born on May 17, 1919 in Coffeyville, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Carey Franklin Hall Junior and Alice May (Hart) Hall-Doyle.

Education

Student, Southwestern Assembly of God University, Waxahachie, Texas, 1938—1939. Student, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, 1978—1980.

Career

She is the chief editor of the New Tyndale Translation New Testament, author of the introductions to the books of the Bible in the Modern English Version Bible (MEV), translator of the book of Proverbs for the MEV, and she is on the faculty Advisory Board at Saint Elias Seminary and Graduate School, located in Hamilton, Virginia. In 2011, she received the "Leader of the Year" award at the 2011 Leadership Summit hosted at the Heritage Foundation. Having matriculated at Southwestern Assemblies of God University and audited the Doctor of Ministry Program at Fuller Theological Seminary, she received an honorary Doctor of Divinity at Kingsway Theological Seminary.

Achievements

• Verna May Linzey has been listed as a notable minister, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Baptism with the Holy Spirit

Membership

Member advisory board Operation Freedom, since 2003. Co-founder, vice president Military Bible Association. Member national committee Democratic organization, 1943—1945, Republican Organization, since 1946.

Member of Military Bible Association (co-founder & vice president).

Interests

• Gardening, piano, photography, genealogy, singing.

Connections

Married Stanford Eugene Linzey Junior, July 13, 1941 (deceased). Children: Gena May English, Janice Ellen Mathis, Stanford Eugene III, Virginia Darnelle Lemons(deceased), Sharon Faye, George William, Vera Evelyn Clark, Paul Edward, David Leon, James Franklin.

Father:

Carey Franklin Hall Hall-Doyle Junior

Mother:

Alice May (Hart) Hall-Doyle

Spouse:

Stanford Eugene Linzey Junior

child:

Virginia Darnelle Lemons Linzey (deceased)

child:

Paul Edward Linzey

child:

George William Linzey

child:

David Leon Linzey

child:

Janice Ellen Mathis Linzey

child:

Gena May English Linzey

child:

Sharon Faye Linzey

child:

Stanford Eugene III Linzey

child:

Vera Evelyn Clark Linzey

child:

James Franklin Linzey