Gale Grant Hadden passed away Tuesday, April 19, after a long illness.
Gale was born on November 16, 1926, in Washington, D.C. to William Dodds Grant and Laura Miller Grant. She attended school in Washington, D.C. where she met and married Stephen Maurice Hadden, a young man with a call to ministry. Stephen and Gale began their ministry together with Steve being the youth pastor for his father as he planted an Assemblies of God church in Asheville, North Carolina. Steve then joined the Navy and became an acting chaplain on a ship. After the war, they attended several Bible colleges and then traveled as Evangelists. Steve and Gale pastored in many places, including West Virginia, Minnesota, Arkansas, and Kansas. Gale played the piano for services on many occasions. From pastoring in western Kansas, they served together at Trinity Bible College in North Dakota for ten years. Steve taught and mentored students and Gale worked as a Librarian.
After serving at Trinity, they served as counselors for a church in Michigan and then proceeded to the Oklahoma District where Steve took a trip to Jamaica and preached in tent meetings that led to them accepting a missionary appointment with the Assemblies of God to the Bible school in the mountains of Jamaica. There, Gale exercised her gift of hospitality, frequently entertaining the local people and visiting dignitaries in their home. They transferred then to the Bahamas at the invitation of the national leaders and were instrumental in the building of a Bible school. There, Gale served, offering hospitality and many meals to visiting work crews and dignitaries.
Gale was mother to six children, Lois Wade (deceased), Shirley Tyler, Barbara Gerth (deceased), Stephen Hadden, Andrew Hadden, and Ruth Carpenter. Gale was grandmother to thirteen grandchildren and great-grandmother to eleven.
The funeral service will be on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. in the Maranatha Village Chapel, 233 E. Norton Rd., Springfield, Missouri. Visitation will be in the same location from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.