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==Background==

==Background==

Paden was one of seven children of John Calvin Oscar Paden (1888-1957), an [[Arkansas]] native, and the former Lona Harden Paden (1889-1975), originally from [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Lona&gsln=Paden&mswpn__ftp=Lubbock%2C%20Lubbock%2C%20Texas%2C%20USA&mswpn=77806&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3249%7C46%7C0%7C1824%7C77806%7C0%7C&MSAV=1&msbdy=1889&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc |title= search ancestry.com for "Lona Paden" |publisher= search.ancestry.com |accessdate= July 21, 2015}}</ref> Only one of the seven children, the youngest, Patsy Paden Whitson (born December 7, 1928) of Lakewood, [[California]], survives.<ref name=gpaden/> He was born in Wagner in northwestern Hunt County near [[Dallas]]. The population of Wagner never exceeded fifty persons, and the community is no longer listed on road maps or gazzeteers. In 1927, the family moved to Lubbock County in West Texas, where Paden later graduated from Idalou High Schoo]. In 1947, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Abilene Christian University in [[Abilene]] in Taylor County in Wex, Texas.<ref name=cpobit>Cline Rex Paden obituary, ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' May 28, 2007.}}</ref>

Paden was one of seven children of John Calvin Oscar Paden (1888-1957), an [[Arkansas]] native, and the former Lona Harden Paden (1889-1975), originally from [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Lona&gsln=Paden&mswpn__ftp=Lubbock%2C%20Lubbock%2C%20Texas%2C%20USA&mswpn=77806&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3249%7C46%7C0%7C1824%7C77806%7C0%7C&MSAV=1&msbdy=1889&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc |title=search ancestry.com for "Lona Paden"|publisher= search.ancestry.com |accessdate=July 21, 2015}}</ref> Only one of the seven children, the youngest, Patsy Paden Whitson (born December 7, 1928) of Lakewood, [[California]], survives.<ref name=gpaden/> He was born in Wagner in northwestern Hunt County near [[Dallas]]. The population of Wagner never exceeded fifty persons, and the community is no longer listed on road maps or gazeteers. In 1927, the family moved to Lubbock County in West Texas, where Paden later graduated from Idalou High Schoo]. In 1947, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Abilene Christian University in [[Abilene]] in Taylor County in Wex, Texas.<ref name=cpobit>Cline Rex Paden obituary, ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' May 28, 2007.}}</ref>

==Ministry==

==Ministry==