REV. SHERMAN JAMES HOSTON

The Life and Legacy of Rev. Sherman James Hoston

“O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.” Psalm 8:1

THE LIFE of Rev. Hoston began on February 20, 1945, in Monroe, Louisiana, Ouachita Parrish, born to his parents, Rev. Charlie Hoston Sr. and Corrine Goins Hoston. He was the ninth of seventeen children. He transitioned from his earthly dwelling to his heavenly home on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 4:15 PM.

Rev. Hoston accepted Jesus Christ at an early age and was baptized at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Dubach, LA, where he was also raised and formally educated. He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1963. He attended Southern University, a Historically Black College and University, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he studied Mathematics and graduated in 1967. He received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago and a Master of Divinity from Western Baptist College in Kansas City, MO. His collegiate education, skills, and talents were combined to induce his successful occupational career. He worked at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), and Phillips 66, and he owned a gas station, Lakeview Market and Deli in Grandview, Missouri. He decided to sell his gas station and became a Financial Advisor for Edward Jones and he retired from Met Life. Rev. Hoston started a long-lasting career at Horace Mann, from where he also retired.   

THE LEGACY of Rev. Hoston began when he married Doris Avon Modest on June 12, 1966. To this union, three children were born, Shermonia., Landon, and Daren. After residing in Dubach, Louisiana, they relocated to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Chicago, Illinois, and then, Overland Park, Kansas. They joined and were members of Second Baptist Church in Olathe, Kansas from 1989 to 2001. Then, they joined Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church where they remained members for over 18 years. They were married for fifty years until her passing on November 8, 2016.

Rev. Hoston served as a Sunday School teacher and deacon of the church. He was called to the ministry in 2008 and delivered his first sermon at Mt. Zion MBC. He briefly pastored at a Senior Living Facility, then was selected as senior pastor of Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church on April 14, 2018. He met the acquaintance of Ms. Lillian Mays at Mt. Zion MBC. They grew in friendship and were married on July 7, 2019. She labored with him in pastoral service at Mt. Calvary MBC. She loved and cared for him until his transition. To the day, the church and his family celebrated his sixth pastoral anniversary on Sunday, April 14, 2024.

Rev. Hoston was preceded in death by his parents, Rev. Charlie Sr. and Corrine Goins Hoston., 8 brothers, Charlie Hoston, Jr., Willie A. Hoston, John David Hoston, Aubrey Hoston, Melvin Hoston, John Otha Hoston, Roosevelt Hoston, and John Russell Hoston; 4 sisters Linda Mays, Rosie Lee Garrison, Annie Mae Kelley, and Delores Hoston, one son Landon C Hoston, one granddaughter, Shaira Hinton, and one grandson, Joshua Hoston.

Rev. Hoston was highly honored and respected by his family, his colleagues, his clergy associates, his spiritual sons and daughters, and his friends. He was known for being stubborn, yet sound, strict, yet loving, wise, and remarkable, so much so that he brought all of his family together the weekend of his passing. Rev. Hoston spoke highly of his family, loved them dearly, and always sought to support them in any way he could. He traveled the states to perform family weddings and family funerals; and to attend family celebrations, receptions, and family births. He loved to return to family reunions in his home state of Louisiana. He previously liked to play golf and was a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs. Rev. Hoston had great compassion for the members of Mt. Calvary MBC, the clergy as a whole, and for his immediate and extended family. He was a man of excellence, and order, and was publicly favored by everyone for his strength as the Patriarch of his family.

THE LEGACY of Rev. Sherman James Hoston will live on as the family continues to celebrate his LIFE and the LEGACY he so graciously imparted into all of us. Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal and “We are confident that though he is absent from the body, he is present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8).

We who are left to carry out his great legacy are: His wife, Lillian Mays-Hoston, Overland Park, Ks., one daughter, Shermonia M. Hoston, Gardner, Ks., one son, Daren M Hoston Overland Park, Ks., 4 sisters, Willie Sue Murphy, Rayville, LA, Mary Ann Hoston, Arlington, Tx., Minnie (Jack) H. Yarbrough, Arlington, Tx., Ruthie Verrett, Oakland, CA, Carolyn Drayton, Kempner, Tx., 4 granddaughters and 2 grandsons, Lacronda Wilson, Huntsville, AL., Adreona (Brian) Jones, Hutchison, MN., Jasmyn (Solomon) Israel, Oklahoma City, OK., Kayla Winans, Overland Park, Ks. Jordan J. and Jared J. Hoston, Spring Hill, KS. 9 Great-grandchildren, a host of nieces and nephews, spiritual sons and daughters, the Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church family, and 2 God-children.

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