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Submitted: 7/29/21 • Approved: 8/4/21 • Last Updated: 8/7/21 • R1384217-G0-S3
August 18, 1949 - August 8, 2016
*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
BENTONVILLE — Dr. Earl Douglas Jessup, 66, of Bentonville, Ark., passed away Aug. 8, 2016, surrounded by his family. He was born Aug. 18, 1949 in Beckley, W.Va., the son of Odell and Ethel Jessup.
Dr. Jessup was the founder and director of Baptist Church Planting Ministry. He helped churches reproduce more than 170 Independent Baptist Churches throughout the United States and Canada and around the world.
He is preceded in death by four grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife, Beth Jessup of the home; five children, Crystal Miller and husband Steve of Pleasant Prairie, Wis.; Jay Jessup and wife Susie of Greenbrier, Tenn.; Susanna Owen and husband Danny of Centerton, Ark.; Rachel Viers and husband James of Albion, Iowa; Joel Jessup and wife Kerstin of Marshalltown, Iowa; 17 grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 1 to 2 p.m. Friday at Grace Baptist Church in Rogers, Ark.
A celebration of Dr. Earl Jessup's life will be at 2. p.m. Friday; Aug. 12, 2016, at Grace Baptist Church in Rogers, Ark. Interment will follow in the Bentonville Cemetery, Bentonville, Ark.
Memorial contributions may be made to the BCPM Planting Seed Bank Ministry, P.O. Box 240904, Apple Valley, Minn., 55124. Arrangements by Benton County Funeral Home, 306 N. 4th, Rogers, Ark. Online condolences to www.bentoncountyfuneralhome.com.
Married June 6, 1970
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