He started in a tent, going to end up in tent

Beacon Journal reporter Colette M. Jenkins saved the kicker on local services for the Rev. Rex Humband until next to the last graph:

“Dad started in a tent in Akron,'' Rex Humbard Jr. said. ''And he's going to end up in a tent in Akron.''

The Rev. Rex Humbard, the first evangelist to have a weekly nationwide TV program in America, will lie in state from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Ernest Angley's Grace Cathedral, 2700 State Road, Cuyahoga Falls.

A memorial home-going celebration will be held at 4:30 p.m. Sunday under a large tent at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, 714 N. Portage Path in Akron.

The service will be officiated by the Rev. Clement Humbard, Rex Humbard's younger brother, and the Rev. Wayne Jones, Humbard's brother-in-law and his assistant pastor for 38 years.

Humbard, 88, died Friday in an Atlantis, Fla., hospital.

Click on the headline to read the story by Colette on page A1 of the BJ on Wednesday.