Orvella Alberta 
Stewart, age 83, went to heaven on November 13, 2016 in Everett, Washington.
Orvella was born August 24, 1933 in Johnstown, Nebraska to Albert and Alice Hamar. She was the eighth of nine children. Growing up she attended schools in Johnstown, Nebraska; Rapid City, South Dakota; Hamilton, Montana; Chelan and Longview, Washington. She graduated from R.A. Long High School in 1951.
After graduation, she worked at Fiber for a couple of years before attending Northwest Bible College in Seattle, Washington. While at Northwest, she met Lawrence “Bud” Stewart who was attending Simpson Bible College that was located in Seattle at that time. They were married March 26, 1956 in Longview, Washington in her parent’s home.
The Stewarts lived in Napa, California the first two years of their marriage serving as youth pastors in a Christian Missionary Alliance church. In 1958, they moved to Longview, Washington, and became active members of Kelso First Assembly of God. They lived there until 1983 when they moved to Oregon as the pastors of Assemblies of God churches in Bonanza and then Buxton, and then served as associate pastors in Sunnyside, Washington. They settled in the Everett area in 1993 where they were active in Bethany Christian Assembly and lived in the area until their deaths.
Orvella was a homemaker and throughout her life served in various children’s ministry roles. She taught neighborhood Bible clubs, Sunday school, Missionettes (girls club). She was a preschool teacher, and cook for a children’s/youth camp. She enjoyed crafting, knitting, crochet, and sewing.
Orvella is survived by three children: Stephen (Elizabeth) Stewart, Pamella (Rodney) Skolrud, and Robert (Connie) Stewart; eight grandchildren: Jennifer (Brian) Becker, Stephanie (Jody) Roscoe, Katie (Zach) Hendrickson, Ryan (Emily) Skolrud, Justin (Ceci) Skolrud, Jordan (Angela) Skolrud, Joshua Stewart, and Stephen Stewart; seven great-grandchildren: Maudilee, Malachi, and Nehemiah Roscoe, Elliana and Eva Becker, and Nora and Ilona Skolrud; one brother, Raymond Hamar, and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Lawrence “Bud” Stewart, her parents Albert and Alice (Bunn) Hamar, her parents-in-law Glenn and Annie (Wilson) Stewart, and seven siblings.
Orvella’s childhood hero was Lillian Trasher who founded an orphanage in Egypt during the early 1900s, and dreamed of serving there. That is why the family asked that in lieu of flowers donations be made in her name to Ask for the Nations Ministries (http://www.askforthenationsministries.org/) that operates an orphanage in Kumasi, Ghana. The ministry was founded by Orvella’s granddaughter and her husband, Stephanie and Jody Roscoe.
