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Jimmie Treat

1934 - 2023

Jimmie Treat obituary, 1934-2023, Lawrence, KS

BORN

1934

DIED

2023

Jimmie Treat Obituary

Rev. Jimmie Treat passed away Thursday, October 12, 2023, at his home in Lawrence, Kansas.

Born in Bloomfield, Illinois, to Coy and Ruby Treat in 1934, Jimmie dreamed of one day being a cowboy. He also found a love for the oboe and played for his high school band. He was planning to play as a professional oboist. He had committed his life to Christ in his early teens and realized later that the Lord was calling him to preach, so the oboe became his avocation, and he played in many community orchestras throughout his career as well as teaching oboe students. His desire was to share the gospel with as many people as he could. After high school Jimmie attended Wheaton College for two years. He took one year off to work as a BYF youth intern for the American Baptist Convention, traveling throughout the midwestern states working with youth groups in many churches. He transferred to Ottawa University, in Ottawa, Kansas, and spent his summers working with the youth at First Baptist Church in Russell, Kansas. There he met his future wife, Marcia, and they were married a year later after he graduated from Ottawa University. They moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended Eastern Baptist Seminary. After seminary they moved to Anadarko, Oklahoma, where they served Native American churches for four years. They then moved to Kansas where he pastored First Baptist Church in Horton and Hays, Kansas, then moving to First Baptist Church, Rapid City, South Dakota. He later pastored First Baptist Church, Murphysboro, Illinois. He retired from that church, and they moved to Baldwin City, Kansas. He served as interim pastor in ten churches in Kansas and Missouri for as long as he was physically able. Even in his last weeks of life he was praying with and for those who were caring for him.

Jimmie is preceded in death by his parents and youngest son, Jeremy. He is survived by his wife of sixty-seven years, Marcia, as well as two sons, James and John, and his daughter, Julia, as well as four grandsons, Coy and Cooper Treat, and Nick and Jake Reber. He is also survived by his younger sister, Nancy Forbes, two nieces and two nephews. His passion was sharing the gospel, and the family suggests memorials be sent to the American Bible Society or Wycliffe Translators.

The immediate burial will be 10:00 a.m., Monday, October 16, at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas. Pastor David Killingsworth will lead a brief committal service.

For more information or to post a condolence go to warrenmcelwain.com.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by Lawrence Journal-World on Oct. 15, 2023.

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Barb Millar

October 19, 2023

Pastor Treat was my all time favorite pastor when I was growing up!!! He set the bar high for expository preaching. Love that man with high regards. Much love to the Treat family.

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