Ada Bickel, born 12 July 1923, went home to be with her Heavenly Father on 18 January 2019, in Naples, Florida.
Ada was born in Belleville, Michigan to George Arthur and Ida (Firmingham) Jones, an immigrant family from Wales. Ada went to Bible School in Ft. Wayne, Indiana where she met her future ‘husband for life’ Basil (Bic) Bickel. Upon graduation from Bible School in 1946 Ada and ‘Bic’ went to the mission field where they served in several Caribbean countries and several US states for more than 60 years.
Bic preceded her in death in March 2018.
They have four children; Phillip and his wife Shirley, Linda Spence, Jonathan, and David and his wife Sharon. Bic and Ada have more than a dozen grandchildren and many, many great grandchildren.
Ada established many ladies Bible studies in several nursing homes. She had a special gift for teaching middle school students after successfully home schooling her own four children. Ada was an expert at children’s evangelism as she worked beside her church-planting husband in Grenada and St. Lucia, in the West Indies.