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FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN:
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ELDER OTIS BUELL
WRITTEN BY HIS WIFE, NEETCIE BUELL:
Elder Buell was born to Herbert and Caroline Green Buell on January 22, 1940, in Calvin, Kentucky, in Bell County. Ottis was born the fifth of nine children and graduated from Bell County High School in 1958. He moved to Newport News, Virginia, for six months. While there, he joined the Missionary Baptist Church.
The love of God was in Otis' heart from the time he was a child. As a young man, Otis didn't believe that he would ever join the Primitive Baptists because he said they prayed the longest, sang the slowest, and said the least of anybody he ever knew. At nineteen, he moved to Livonia, Michigan, and met his future wife, Neetcie Bernice Wilson. On September 3, 1960, Otis and Neetcie were married in the Pontiac Primitive Baptist Church by Elder Saylor. They adopted a baby girl and named her Sharon Ethel Buell. In 1989, they adopted a son and named him Justin Tyler-Otis Buell.
Otis and Neetcie joined the Pontiac Primitive Baptist Church in Farmington, Michigan, and were baptized on April 14, 1968, by Elder Robert Mayhorn and Elder Jim Whittington. Otis came out of the water preaching. On June 15, 1969, he and his brother-in-law Kenneth Wilson were ordained to the ministry.
He served as Assistant Pastor to Elder Mayhorn from 1972 to 1982 at the Pontiac Church. In October of 1982, he was made Pastor of the Church. In 1984, the church changed the name from Pontiac to Good Shepherd (because of confusion due to a city nearby named Pontiac).
O B I T U A R Y
Elder Otis Buell, Pastor of The Good Shepherd Primitive Baptist Church of Farmington, Michigan, has passed away.
Brother Otis was born on January 22, 1940-in Pineville, KY, and died on August 4, 2006, at the age of 66 in Livonia, Michigan.
Beloved husband of Neetcie for 45 years. Loving father of Sharon (Chris) Scanlon and Justin Buell. Cherished grandfather of Joseph and Caroline. Dear brothers of Tevis, Jeanette, Flo, Herbert Jr., Jean, Darlene, Donnie, and Ronnie.
Officiants at funeral services included Elder Thomas Edwards, Elder Joseph Humphreys, and Elder Kenneth Wilson.
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