Rebekah Leanne Adams
Rebekah Leanne Adams, aka Mom, Baby, BB, Becky, Beck, Mrs. Adams, Miss Becky, Pastor Becky, Bishop, was born in Ada, Oklahoma on April 29, 1981, to Reverend Ken and Jean Brown.
Becky grew up in various towns throughout Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, and New Mexico as her parents served as ministers in the Church of the Nazarene. She graduated from Mayfield High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she participated in choir and youth church events.
She later attended Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma where she graduated with a degree in History Education. Just months before her death, she graduated with high honors from Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, with a Master of Divinity degree on the same day that her daughter Deanne graduated with an Elementary Education Degree with honors from Southern Nazarene University.
Becky met the love of her life, Wesley Adams, while in her second year of undergraduate studies at SNU, whom she married on May 28, 2004, in Oklahoma City. She was immensely proud of their two children, Deanne and Alexander, and could frequently be found at their many practices and events.
Over the last 17 years, Becky taught middle school history for ten years before receiving a local and district minister’s license and started a new career as a full-time children’s pastor. After five years and two churches as a children’s pastor, she accepted a call in August 2020 to be the Senior Pastor of Wister First Church of the Nazarene in Wister, Oklahoma.
Becky was proud of her Choctaw heritage and demonstrated the Chahta spirit of Faith, Family & Culture.
She is survived by her husband, Wesley; two beloved children, Deanne, 23, and Alexander, 12; parents, Ken and Jean Brown of Coalgate, Oklahoma; brother, Kenneth and wife Nikki of Fort Bliss, Texas; brother-in-law, Tim and wife Angie of Crowley, Texas; sister-in-law, Melissa and husband Claudio of Bethany, Oklahoma; ten nieces and nephews and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her great-grandparents, Carl and Polly Jump and Anna Wood and Lucy Brown; her grandparents, Bud and Joyce Craig of Ada, Oklahoma, and Weston and Louise Brown of Jamaica Queens, New York.
Funeral arrangements were handled by Mercer-Adams Funeral Service in Bethany, Oklahoma. Viewing was held Friday, December 3, with family present. The funeral service was held at Lake View Park Church of the Nazarene in Oklahoma City on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. with interment following at Coalgate Cemetery in Coalgate, Oklahoma.