Larry Kent Scoggin

Larry Kent Scoggin was born October 26, 1945, in Wichita Falls, Texas. He was the son of Howard and Wilma Scoggin from Dimmitt, Texas. He had a wonderful life growing up in the Texas Panhandle, where people love a lot and care a lot!

As a youngster, Larry worked with his dad on their farm east of town. At an early age he learned the value of hard work. As a teen he worked at a local grocery store and the town hangout, the Dairy Kream. In his late high school years, he worked at the local radio station, KDHN, as a disc jockey. This love of radio carried him to working at a country music station in Lubbock, KDAV, during his college years at Texas Tech and early adulthood. It was in Lubbock that he met the love of his life, Sue Rodolph, from Fort Worth. They were married August 20, 1966.

After his college days he went to work for IBM Corporation in Lubbock. His first daughter, Lisa, was born in Lubbock. A year later IBM transferred them to Midland, Texas, and they lived there for 29 years. In Midland, their second daughter, Jennifer, was born.

As a salesman at IBM in Midland, Larry thrived. In 1977, he was named the Marketing Sales Rep of the Year, for the Dallas District. In 1979, he was the top IBM copier salesman in the nation.

One of his clients was HNG Oil Company and they offered him a job as Manager of Administration. Later HNG became Enron, and with the change of names, a change of location was required to Houston.

Having 2 teenage daughters they decided Midland was a better place for them to be, so they took a large severance pay in 1986 and invested it in starting a new Christian bookstore in Midland, The Lighthouse. Not knowing what they were doing but depending on the wisdom from above, they owned and managed the store for 10 years. In 1991, they were named CBA Store of the Year for District 8, which included Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. God had shown up big time!

While running the bookstore they were asked by Al and Tommie Cooper to share their testimony on the local Christian TV station talk show. Recognizing Larry’s broadcasting ability, they were asked to co-host a weekly television talk show interviewing Christians giving their personal testimonies of the goodness of God in their lives. They also had their own show for a period of time, End Time Issues.

In 1996, they sold The Lighthouse to Family Christian Stores. They used this timeframe to co-author the book, Ladies Day Out in West Texas.

Both of their daughters and their 3 grandchildren moved to Tulsa, OK in 2000. Larry and Sue sold their house and moved to Oklahoma in 2001. Larry became a realtor and sold new homes for Simmons Homes and Terry L. Davis and Glen Shaw. After retirement, he enjoyed working in the garden area of Lowe’s in Broken Arrow.

Larry was a committed Christian. In Midland, he attended First Baptist Church and Cornerstone Christian Fellowship. Over the last 25 years while in Tulsa, he attended Victory Church and Church on the Move.Larry loved playing golf so much. In 1994, he shot a hole in 1 at Green Tree Country Club in Midland.

He is survived by his wife of almost 59 years, Sue, 2 daughters, Lisa Swift Edwards and Jennifer Scoggin Scarborough, and their spouses, Tim Edwards and Jason Scarborough, 5 grandchildren, Amber Smith, Tiffany Smith, Connor Swift and wife Megan, Eric Scarborough and Zech Edwards and two great grandsons, Bowen Ray Swift and Tucker Kent Swift. He is also survived by a sister, Cindy Scoggin Ballew and husband, Major, a brother Jim Seigler and his wife Mary, and 2 sisters, Doris Davis and Linda Swanson and a niece, Heather Ballew and her son, Hunter Ballew, and many other nieces and nephews.