Arthur Stone entered consciously into God’s presence on December 10. Born in Hartlepool in 1924, his father George Stone (known as Jack) was the minister of Thornton Street Baptist Chapel. When war came, like many of his generation, with the help of his dad’s stolen / borrowed trench coat and trilby, he lied about his age and signed up with the Durham Light Infantry.
He was involved in the Normandy landings and, after ten days of non-stop fighting, he collapsed and was invalided out of the war zone with shell shock.
On his return he married Muriel. She would be his lifelong partner and a vital member of a team who God would use mightily. Not long after, Carol and Norman were born.
