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==Background==

==Background==

O'Brien was the oldest of four children of Claude L. O'Brien (1933-2019) and the former Angeline Elizabeth Sill (born May 11, 1935). Claude O'Brien  was born in Cotulla in LaSalle County in south Texas and graduated from the Agua Dulce High School in the rural community of Agua Dulce in Nueces County, near [[Corpus Christi]]. He was drafted into the [[United States Army]] during the [[Korean War]]. His military service took him to Fort Bliss in [[El Paso]], Texas. After leaving the army, he became an electronic technician at the [[White Sands Missile Range]] in southern [[New Mexico]]. In a career of thirty-four years at White Sands, he reached the rank of radar chief and worked in special missions including the Gemini and [[Apollo moon missions|Apollo]] [[moon]] projects for the [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]].<ref name=claudeobrienobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx?n=claude-o-brien&pid=191324068|title=Claude L. O'Brien obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=January 23, 2019}}</ref>

O'Brien was the oldest of four children of Claude L. O'Brien (1933-2019) and the former Angeline Elizabeth Sill (born May 11, 1935), who wed in 1953. Claude O'Brien  was born in Cotulla in LaSalle County in south Texas and graduated from the Agua Dulce High School in the rural community of Agua Dulce in Nueces County, near [[Corpus Christi]]. He was drafted into the [[United States Army]] during the [[Korean War]]. His military service took him to Fort Bliss in [[El Paso]], Texas. After leaving the army, he became an electronic technician at the [[White Sands Missile Range]] in southern [[New Mexico]]. In a career of thirty-four years at White Sands, he reached the rank of radar chief and worked in special missions including the Gemini and [[Apollo moon missions|Apollo]] [[moon]] projects for the [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]].<ref name=claudeobrienobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx?n=claude-o-brien&pid=191324068|title=Claude L. O'Brien obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=January 23, 2019}}</ref>

Kevin O'Brien graduated in 1974 from Irvin High School in his native El Paso.<ref>http://irvin.episd.org/</ref> He then completed a three-year theology program at the conservative Baptist Bible College in Springfield, [[Missouri]], from which he graduated in 1977.<ref>http://www.baptist.edu/</ref> On June 12, 1976, he married his childhood sweetheart, the former Darlene Frances Turbeville (born c. 1958). Their three children are Jeremy Daniel O'Brien, Jenilee Danielle (Tyler) Prater, and Juliana (Nicholas) Carr. There was also a grandson, Griffyn O'Brien, at the time of O'Brien's passing.<ref>[http://www.sandersfuneralhome.com/obituaries/02_February/obituary_obrien.kevin.htm]</ref>

Kevin O'Brien graduated in 1974 from Irvin High School in his native El Paso.<ref>http://irvin.episd.org/</ref> He then completed a three-year theology program at the conservative Baptist Bible College in Springfield, [[Missouri]], from which he graduated in 1977.<ref>http://www.baptist.edu/</ref> On June 12, 1976, he married his childhood sweetheart, the former Darlene Frances Turbeville (born c. 1958). Their three children are Jeremy Daniel O'Brien, Jenilee Danielle Prater and husband, Tyler, and Juliana Carr and husband, Nicholas. There was also a grandson, Griffyn O'Brien, at the time of O'Brien's passing.<ref>[http://www.sandersfuneralhome.com/obituaries/02_February/obituary_obrien.kevin.htm]</ref>

O'Brien had two brothers, Ronald O'Brien and wife, PJ, of Sachse, Texas, and David O'Brien and wife, Vicki, of Haslett, Texas, and two sisters, Karen Smith of El Chaparral, New Mexico, and Tricia and husband, Chad Pritchett of Ellis, [[Kansas]].<ref name=claudeobrienobit/>  

O'Brien had two brothers, Ronald O'Brien and his wife, the former Patricia Jan "PJ" Spencer, of Sachse, Texas, and David O'Brien and wife, Vicki, of Haslett, Texas, and two sisters, Karen Smith of El Chaparral, New Mexico, and Tricia and husband, Chad Pritchett of Ellis in central [[Kansas]].<ref name=claudeobrienobit/>

==Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock==

==Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock==