Stanley Joe Faulkner

He was born on December 20, 1930 in Glendale, Arizona, the second of seven children. The family migrated to southern California, and Stan graduated from West Covina High School in 1948. He joined the Navy in 1950 and served on Midway and in the Philippines as a SeaBee. He was discharged in 1954. He attended college at Central Bible Institute in Springfield, Missouri where he received a Bachelors degree in Bible and Ministry in 1958. While in college he met Jayne Pearson and they were married August 30th, 1957 in Conrad, Montana. Stan became a pastor with the Assemblies of God, and served churches in Stanley and Devils Lake, ND before becoming a missionary and traveling overseas to serve the Lord in Cebu City, Philippines in 1963. By then, the Lord had blessed him with three daughters; Kim, Melanie and Julie. The family lived in the Philippines until 1974, and, in Cebu, another daughter, Heather, joined the family. Stanley felt called to serve the people who lived on the countless tiny islands that dot the archipelago that is the Philippines. He built a fleet of boats and a team of workers that would bring the Good News and assistance to those who lived in isolation and poverty on these tiny spits of sand and coral. Because of his experience with island ministry, he was then asked to assist in mission work in the island Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. The family went to Tonga in 1976 where Stan worked with the Assemblies of God ministry in Nuku Alofa. After his retirement from over-seas ministry, the family settled in Albany, Oregon where Stan became an associate pastor at First Assembly. He retired from ministry in 1991 for health reasons and continued to live in Albany until June of 2012 when he moved to Redmond, Oregon. Stan loved the Lord, he loved his family and he loved people. He was proud to be a veteran and loved coin and rock collecting. Daily you would catch him studying the Word and when he prayed for you, you knew he had Gods ear and everything would be OK. He will be deeply missed by his wife of 55 years, Jayne Pearson Faulkner; his daughters, Kim Kirk of Redmond, Melanie Green of Albany, Julie Scheafer of Portland and Heather Faulkner of Redmond; his twelve grandchildren, Matthew Kirk, Sarah Scheafer, Rachel Gatchet, Hillary Kirk, Lindsey Hall, Ryan Scheafer, Madeleine Green, Stephanie Scheafer, Sommer Kirk, Emma Green, Jonathan Green and Ian Stanley Faulkner; great-grandchildren Jazmine Gatchet and Jack Gatchet; his brother, Douglas Faulkner and his sister, Susie Faulkner West, along with many brothers and sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents, Suda Ellen Rogers Faulkner and Wilmot Eugene Faulkner and four siblings, Buddy Faulkner, Ronnie Faulkner, Patricia Faulkner Nelson and Edwin Faulkner. He will be buried in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland on September 13th in a family ceremony. There will be a celebration of life service on Sunday, September 16 at 3pm at Praise Assembly, 189 Monmouth Avenue South, in Monmouth, Oregon, 97361, with a hymn-sing beginning at 2:30 of those songs he loved. Memorial contributions can be made in his honor to Praise Assembly in Monmouth for mission work. Funeral Home: Redmond Memorial Chapel 717 SW 6th Street Redmond, OR US 97756

Stanley Joe Faulkner

December 20, 1930 - September 10, 2012