February 26, 1958 - April 07, 2021
The Memorial services Celebrating and Honoring the life of Dr. Gregory “Greg” Hook, 63, of Enid, will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday April 15, 2021 in the Emmanuel Enid Church with Pastor Wade Burleson officiating. Complete cremation care and services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
Greg was born February 26, 1958 to Gene and Patricia (Thorp) Hook in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and passed from this life April 7, 2021 in Oklahoma City.
He was raised and educated in Oklahoma City graduating high school with the class of 1975. He attended Oklahoma University and graduated with his accounting degree in 1979. He married Sara Butcher June 9, 1979 at Jefferson Heights Baptist Church. The couple moved to Dallas where he worked for Mobil Oil as an accountant for three years.
In 1983 the couple moved to The Woodlands, Texas where he continued working as an accountant at Tenneco until 1986. He achieved his Master of Business Administration degree from St. Thomas University in Houston. In December of 1986, the family moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia. While working as an accountant for Consolidated Natural Gas, he surrendered to the ministry. In 1992, the family moved to Louisville, Kentucky where he attended The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and began as the Pastor of Sunnyside Baptist Church. In December 1994, he graduated with his Master of Divinity. At that time they moved to Trussville, Alabama where he pastored at Sulphur Springs Baptist Church. Soon after, he completed his Doctorate in Ministry from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. The family moved to Alva, Oklahoma, in 2000 where he pastored at Alva First Baptist Church until moving to Enid in 2011 where he pastored Garland Road Baptist Church until his retirement in 2017.
Then Greg and Sara began attending Emmanuel Enid where he was the Senior Adult Minister for two years, he greatly enjoyed this ministry and fellowship.
He was an avid Frankoma pottery collector, an O.U. Football fanatic and season ticket holder. He enjoyed having an antique booth, working crossword and sudoku puzzles, and any kind of mind challenges. He absolutely loved being a “Grampy” to his nine grandchildren and poured himself into them. He loved people and would always continue praying and maintain relationships with parishioners.
He is survived by his wife of forty-one years Sara Hook, of the home, two sons Matthew Hook, of Colorado and Brian Hook and Naomi, of Stillwater; one daughter Amy Chase and husband Brad, of Woodward; nine grandchildren, Petal, Paislee, Parker, Logan, and Sophia Hook, Lauren, Zachary, Noah, and Lillian Chase; his parents Gene and Patricia Hook, of Oklahoma City; three siblings Rhonda and Mike Sperling, of Afton, OK, Randy and Denise Hook, of Broken Arrow, OK, and Phillip and Brandy Hook, of Edmond, OK; brother-in-law Paul Butcher, of Palm Springs, CA; and countless other family and friends.
Memorials may be given in lieu of flowers to Emmanuel Enid Missions fund with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made to the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com. As one of Oklahomaʼs oldest single family owned and operated providers of funerals and cremations, Brown-Cummings is the name families have turned to for generations. They fully understand the honor and responsibility entrusted to them to preserve the story of oneʼs life. Visit 400 W. Maple, Enid, OK 73701. Call: (580) 237-5432.
Obituaries are posted, in part, due to the generosity of The Commons.
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