H. Charles Hargrove

Celebration of Life service for H. Charles Hargrove, of Seminole, will be held Saturday, April 10, 2010, in First Baptist Church at 2:00 p.m. in Seminole, Texas.
Charles was born November 9, 1935, in Fort Worth to Harold and Dorothy Hargrove. Charles graduated from Seminole High School, attended Texas A&M University, and graduated from Sul Ross State University in 1958. He married Joyce Bishop on September 2, 1956, in Seminole, and they enjoyed 53 1/2 years of marriage.
Upon graduation, Charles worked for the Soil Conservation Service in Littlefield, Muleshoe, and Lubbock. He loved the farm and ranch life and bought a farm south of Clovis, New Mexico, where the family lived for 10 years before moving to Farwell.
Being led to enter the ministry, Charles enrolled and graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1982, with a Masters of Religious Education. After becoming a Baptist pastor, Charles served in the following places: Assoc. pastor of First Baptist Church in Clovis, New Mexico, and 2 1/2 years as pastor of Live Oak Baptist Church in Decatur, Texas. The Hargroves then moved to Deer Park, Washington, where he served for 10 years as pastor of First Baptist Church. in 1993, the Hargroves moved back to their hometown of Seminole where Charles served as pastor of First Baptist Church of Loop. For six years, interim pastor of Temple Church of Andrews and preached all over the Gaines County area. His greatest desire was to serve the Lord and to have all his descendants also serve Him.
Due to ill health, Hargrove retired from the ministry in 2000. He then bought calves and returned to farming and ranching on the land his grandfather bought in 1903. He enjoyed riding his horses through the fields and gathering calves.
Charles was preceded in death by his mother and father, and his son. H. Charles Hargrove, III. Those left to remember the "Patriarch of the Hargrove Clan" are his wife, Joyce B. Hargrove of Seminole; two sons, David B. Hargrove and wife, Shelly and Steve M. Hargrove and wife, Cara; six grandchildren, Nicole Letkeman, Adam Hargrove, Angela Roberson, J'Lynn, Trent and Dylan Charles Hargrove; three sisters, Theresa Robbins of Austin, Carol Hunter of Fredericksburg, and Shirley Hood of Victoria; seven great grandchildren; several cousins, and many friends from Washington to Texas.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that you make a donation to your favorite charity or to the Mission Fund of First Baptist Church, 2020 S.W. Avenue B, Seminole, Texas 79360.
Arrangements are by Ratliff Funeral Homes, Seminole, Texas 432-758-2431.