This is to inform you of the death of a former Bear Valley student: Terry Sandefur. I think he was a student there in the late 70s. Terry died suddenly Friday morning while working as a substitute teacher in Forbes Middle School, Georgetown, TX.
You can go to the following address and read his obituary and see a recent picture:
http://gabrielsfuneral.com/fh/print.cfm?type=obituary&o_id=1574673&fh_id=11011
Terry was a faithful Christian, lover of the Lord and the Scriptures. Though he had not been preaching for several years, he was deeply respected among members of our congregation.
As I reviewed the people on your staff, I don't think there is anyone who was teaching at BV when he was a student. That would have been folks like Monroe Tharp, Warren Wilcox, Norman Gipson, and I can't recall what year Roy Lanier, Sr. died. The only one on your staff whom I know [and might remember me] is Dr. Dennis Petrillo - whom I knew as Denny when he was in high school and SYD. At the time I was preaching for the University congregation [1968 to 1976 (that may have been the year Denny graduated from high school)]. Give him my greetings!
Unfortunately our loss of Terry while still a young man was difficult not only for his family, but for the congregation. Thanks for the training you provided for him; he used it all the time.
Yours in the Lord,
Max Hughes