Loretta Faye (Vanbiber) Carson

March 20, 1932 — April 30, 2021

Loretta Faye Vanbiber Carson, 89passed away April 30, 2021

Born in Stroud, Oklahoma on March 20, 1932, she was the daughter of Russell Carl and Belva Dell Davis Vanbiber. Following her graduation from Perry high school in 1950, she attended Oklahoma Baptist University for almost 2 years. She left OBU to pursue a career with a printing firm in Oklahoma City.

Eventually, she met Stanley Arthur Carson through a friend and they married December 23, 1953. He was managing a funeral home in Midwest City, OK and they bought their first home across the street from the funeral home. As time went by, he left the funeral business and went into finance and they began moving to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas through the years, moving back and forth from Tulsa 3 times, where they moved to in 1971 and stayed and he went to work for Homesteaders Life Insurance Co.

In the 1970’s they formed a printing ministry through Emmanuel Church, that at this date, has touched the lives of people all over the world. The books and pamphlets printed are free of charge to anyone who requests them. The main books and pamphlets are the spoken word converted to the written word and made into written material. The man who was giving the majority of the spoken word was T. Austin Sparks, a British evangelist, that Loretta discovered some years ago and asked permission, from his ministry organization when he died, and the ministry stopped, to be able to convert the spoken word to written and thus began the ministry of Emmanuel Church.

A tremendous labor of love went into producing those works and key individuals worked on it from day one forward, to transfer from tapes to paper, the spoken to written. A magazine was also started called the PreEminence, emulating Mr Sparks magazine, A Witness and a Testimony. Many happy years were had by Loretta writing some of that magazine along with other key individuals.

Survivors include: her son, David I. Carson and his wife Shirley; daughter, Teresa A Carson Cavender and Teresa’s children, Sean E Wells and his wife Michelle, Hayley L Cavender McKeon and her husband Andrew, Lundy E Cavender, III,(Ridge); and her great grandchildren Bailor Francis Wells and Derland Carson Wells.

Preceding her in death were: her parents; her beloved husband Stanley Arthur Carson; a brother and only sibling, Russell Carl Vanbiber, Jr, and he is survived by Norma S Vanbiber and their three sons and their children, her loving nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 10 AM, Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at Reynolds/Adams Crest Chapel, 1916 South Sheridan, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Interment will be at 1 PM, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at Grace Hill Cemetery, 500 Memorial Dr. Perry, Oklahoma. Memorials may be made to Emmanuel Church to assist in the continuation of the printing ministry or to the local Tulsa Ronald McDonald House.