Janell E. Capehart

Janell Edith Capehart was born to S.W. McDonald and grace Etta McDonald on April 30, 1935, in Pocola, Oklahoma.

She is one of fifteen brothers and sisters. She attended Pocola High School and was a star basketball player for the girls’ varsity basketball team. Shortly after graduating from high school, she met Marvin Capehart, at Fourth Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri, while he was attending southwestern seminary in Dallas, Texas. They were married on June 6, 1954, at Fourth Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri. Marvin and Janell have two daughters: Cindy Ellingson and Colleen Kulback.

Janell served faithfully with her husband in the ministry for forty-five years as a pastor’s wife and leader in the church. She sang in the choir, taught Sunday school, VBS, and worked with the youth. She was a vibrant part of her husband’s ministry. She never met a stranger. She loved everyone and was so positive.

She is proceeded in death by her beloved husband, Marvin Capehart, her parents, S.W. McDonald and Grace McDonald, and twelve brothers and sisters, too numerous to name.

She is survived by her daughter, Cindy Ellingson of Tulsa Oklahoma, daughter Colleen Kulback and husband, Stephen Kulback, JR., of Logan, New Mexico; seven grandchildren, Destanee Scioli, Heather Tobin, Jeremy Nelson, Connor and Caitlyn Ellingson, Chase, Colton, and Hope Kulback, ten great grand- children, and 42 nieces and nephews, and an honorary granddaughter, Destanee Scioli.

In lieu of cards and flowers, please send money to the Baptist Children’s Home in Portales, New Mexico.

Janell Capehart’s service will be at 2:00 p.m., on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at First Baptist Church in Logan, NM.

Mrs. Capehart’s care has been entrusted to Chavez Funeral Home of Santa Rosa, NM.