caption death_date death_place religion birth_place children birth_date spouse article_title name occupation alma_mater
sybil leonard armes 29 june 2007 dallas , texas baptist gatesville , coryell county , texas , usa paul nancy lecroy woodson armes -lrb- born 1950 -rrb- david armes 16 january 1914 clinton married sixty-one years until his death woodsom armes -lrb- 1912 -- 1999 -rrb- , sybil leonard armes
 sybil leonar armes author christian musician texas poet laureate university of mary hardin baylor
sybil leonard armes

sybil leonard armes -lrb- january 16 , 1914 -- june 29 , 2007 -rrb- was a prominent baptist author and musician , who served as alternate poet laureate for the u.s. state of texas in 1969 .
among her survivors is paul woodson armes -lrb- born 1950 -rrb- , the president of wayland baptist university in plainview in hale county in the south plains , who previously was the pastor of a baptist church in corpus christi .
mrs. armes wrote four books of religious poetry and hundreds of devotional poems for various church and denominational publications .
she also penned two books of religious meditations .
she was born near gatesville in central texas and attended rural public schools in the area .
she then enrolled in the university of mary hardin-baylor -lrb- then baylor college for women -rrb- in belton , the seat of bell county near temple in central texas .
in 1938 , she married clinton woodson armes -lrb- may 24 , 1912 -- august 11 , 1999 -rrb- , a student at southwestern baptist theological seminary in fort worth .
the couple was wed for sixty-one years until his death .
mrs. armes was a teacher for a time .
one of her students was the future dallas cowboys coach , tom landry , a native of mission in south texas .
woodson armes taught at baylor university in waco and pastored for twenty-six years congregations in waco , fort worth , and el paso .
in 1961 , mrs. armes was the university of mary hardin-baylor convocation speaker .
she was given an honorary doctor of letters degree .
she also served as a umhb trustee from 1972 to 1981 .
in 1976 , she received the university 's outstanding alumni award .
she was listed in `` who 's who in american women '' .
in 1987 , woodson and sybil armes were honored jointly at a ceremony in independence , texas , with the texas baptist elder statesman award .
mrs. armes died in a dallas-area nursing home , where she had resided during her last years .
she was survived by three children and their spouses : david and shirley armes of long beach , california ; nancy and jan lecroy of dallas ; and paul and duanea armes of plainview , and by granddaughters sarah thompson and ashley armes .
ashley armes is a history professor at wayland baptist university .
a musical scholarship has been established at wayland university in mrs. armes ' name .
ten days after armes ' death , a second christian writer in texas , jo carr , a methodist woman , died at her home in lubbock .
