Obituary of Patty Jean Stroud

Mrs. Patty Jean Stroud, a former resident of Ozark, went home to be with the Lord Sunday, June 30, 2024. She was 94 years old. Funeral services for Mrs. Stroud will be 11:00 A.M. Saturday, July 6, 2024, in the chapel of Holman Funeral Home in Ozark with Reverend Gregg Aman officiating. A private interment will be held in Woodlawn Memory Gardens following the service. The family will receive friends from 10:00 A.M. Saturday, July 6, 2024, until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Stroud was born March 7, 1930, in Clanton, Alabama to the late Jesse Harmon Broadhead and Ruby Lee Jones Broadhead. She married her late husband, Joseph Rayford Stroud, in West End Baptist Church in Clanton, Alabama on March 4, 1951 and assumed the role of Military Wife. She accepted the Lord as her Savior on her 25th birthday at Selmont Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama. She was a member of Ozark Baptist Church for more than 50 years where she was active in many areas of church activities including Sunday School, Women’s Missionary Union, discipleship training and church visitation. She felt the Lord had given her a special mission of ministering to the homebound and elderly families of Ozark Baptist Church and the Ozark community. She had a special desire to witness and explain the plan of salvation at every opportunity and would not hesitate to do so even to a stranger. She would not hesitate to ask if they had accepted Jesus as Savior. She was gifted with the unique ability to relate to anyone from a homeless street person to those in positions of authority at any level. As an Air Force Wife she followed her husband to assignments worldwide, never complaining about the assignment or the living conditions. When her husband was sent to Clark Air Force Base, Philippines in 1958 she joined him there and became active in The Women’s Missionary Group meetings in homes on base. Their efforts, coupled with those of Southern Baptist Missionaries serving locally, resulted in the establishment of Clark Field Baptist Church outside the military base. She and her husband were part of a group of thirty-two charter members of the Church with included military families and local area Filipinos. The Church has grown over the years and is still strong today. She was a wonderful and gifted cook and took great pride in her role as wife and mother. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband of 72 years MSgt Joseph R. Stroud. Survivors include one son, Kent Stroud (Carolyn) of Charlotte, North Carolina; one daughter, Cassy Green (Rusty) of Gardendale, Alabama; three grandsons, Zach Stroud (Morgan) of Cary, North Carolina, Adam Stroud of Charlotte, North Carolina and Hayden Green (Katie) of Gardendale, Alabama; one granddaughter, Kaleigh Beard (Andrew) of Gardendale, Alabama. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made in her memory to Ozark Baptist Church, 282 South Union Avenue, Ozark, Alabama 36360.