Jason Christopher Twyman

A Celebration of Life Service for Jason Twyman, age 52, of Enid, will be 11:00 am, Saturday, August 29, 2026, at the World Harvest Church, with Reverend Brad Mendenhall officiating. Service and cremation arrangements are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home and Crematory.

Jason Christopher Twyman

December 11, 1973 - August 17, 2026

Jason Christopher Twyman, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, businessman, servant of his community, follower of Jesus Christ, and friend to more people than could possibly be named, died on August 17, 2026, at the age of 52.

Jason's life cannot be adequately told by listing where he lived, where he worked, the positions he held, or even the people he loved. His was ultimately a story of redemption - a life that traveled through darkness, addiction, imprisonment, restoration, faith, service, friendship, and love.

Those who knew the man Jason became understood something remarkable about him.

He never forgot the man he had once been.

Because he remembered where he had been, Jason had an unusual compassion for people he met who were where he once was.

Jason was born December 11, 1973, to Ronald Eugene Twyman and Ruth Anne Schnelly. His family included his brothers Bill and Kevin Glasscock, Shaun and Dustin Twyman, and his older sister, Michelle Hill, who preceded him in death.

Jason's early adulthood included years he never attempted to romanticize or conceal. Addiction and destructive choices became part of his life, and in 1994, at only twenty years of age, Jason went to prison.

He would remain incarcerated until 2005.

Eleven years is a long time in a young man's life.

Jason knew what it meant to lose his freedom. He knew consequences. He knew regret. He knew what it was like to have a past that could follow a man into every room he entered.

But prison was not the end of Jason Twyman's story.

Grace was coming.

After his release in 2005, Jason began rebuilding his life. He learned the heating and air-conditioning trade and worked in HVAC for most of the remainder of his life. It was honest work, demanding work, and work at which Jason became very good. Eventually, that skill would become more than a means of earning a living. It would become one of the ways he quietly served people who needed help.

Then came Christmas Eve, 2014.

On December 24, 2014, Jason met Shawna Marie, the woman who would become the great love and companion of his life.

Ask Shawna how they met, and the best explanation may simply be this:

God was working even when neither of them knew it.

Their lives became intertwined, and in March 2015, Jason moved to Enid, Oklahoma. Neither Jason nor Shawna could have known everything God had waiting for them there.

Among the people God placed in their path was a man named Lester Lowry.

Lester loved Jesus, and he loved to sing hymns publicly. There was nothing complicated about his witness. He simply wasn't ashamed of Christ.

Through Lester's friendship and faithful witness, Jason and Shawna were led to faith in Jesus Christ.

That encounter changed the direction of their lives.

Jason discovered that Christianity was not about respectable people learning how to become a little more respectable. He discovered grace.

He discovered forgiveness.

He discovered that a man's past may explain where he has been, but it does not have the authority to determine where God will take him.

The man who had known addiction discovered freedom.

The man who had lived behind prison walls discovered liberty of another kind.

The man who knew what it felt like to be judged by his worst chapter began spending his life helping other people believe that their stories weren't finished either.

On February 14, 2017 - Valentine's Day - Jason and Shawna were married.

Their marriage became one of the defining joys of Jason's life. Together they built a home, a business, friendships, a ministry of encouragement, and a life centered increasingly upon their faith in Christ.

Jason loved his family deeply. He was father to his daughter, Sharie, and grandfather to Theamarie, age seven, and Jeremiah, age five. Those who knew Jason understood that titles and accomplishments mattered far less to him than the people God had entrusted to his care.

Professionally, Jason spent most of his post-prison working life in the HVAC industry. For seven years he worked for Dense Mechanical, remaining there until April 2025. He was respected for his knowledge, his work ethic, and his ability to solve problems.

But there was another side to Jason's skill with heating and air that will never appear on a résumé.

During his years at Emmanuel Enid, Jason's pastor, Wade Burleson, would occasionally encounter families through the church's benevolence ministry who had a serious heating or air-conditioning problem and no financial means to fix it.

Those situations could be difficult. Furnaces and air conditioners are expensive.

Wade knew whom to call.

Jason.

Jason helped.

Sometimes the most accurate measure of a man's life is not what he accomplishes when everybody is watching, but what he does when there is nothing in it for him.

Jason understood that his ability to repair an air conditioner or restore heat to someone's home was more than a trade. It was something God had placed in his hands that could be used to serve another human being.

And Jason served.

He didn't need applause.

He didn't need recognition.

He simply needed to know that somebody needed help.

That same compassion led Jason into extensive service throughout the Enid community. He served on the board of CASA, advocating for vulnerable children. He was involved with United Way and the YWCA, and he supported other charitable and community efforts throughout Enid. Much of what Jason did will never appear in an obituary because much of what Jason did was done quietly.

That was precisely the point.

Jason wasn't interested merely in talking about redemption.

He wanted to live like a redeemed man.

In April 2023, Jason and Shawna took another step together and opened their coffee business. It became another expression of the life they were building together - entrepreneurship mixed with community, friendship, conversation, and hospitality.

Jason also loved music and particularly enjoyed playing the guitar. Perhaps it is fitting that music became part of his story. After all, one of the people God used to lead Jason and Shawna to Christ was simply a man who loved Jesus enough to sing hymns where other people could hear them.

Faith became central to Jason's life.

He did not forget what Christ had done for him, and because he did not forget, Jason wanted other people to know Christ too. He looked for opportunities to talk about Jesus and sought to lead as many people as he could to faith in the Savior who had transformed his own life.

Jason understood something that people with spotless résumés sometimes struggle to understand:

Grace is only amazing when you know you need it.

He knew.

His years at Emmanuel Enid were particularly meaningful. Wade Burleson had the privilege of serving as Jason and Shawna's pastor before Wade's retirement from Emmanuel, but the relationship eventually became something more than pastor and parishioner.

Jason became Wade's friend.

It was a friendship marked by humility.

Jason never needed to impress his pastor with what he knew, what he had accomplished, or what position he held. He was simply Jason - loyal, generous, willing to help, willing to serve, and increasingly eager for other people to discover the Christ who had changed him.

There is something beautiful about watching a man whom the world might once have written off become the kind of man other people can count on.

Jason became that man.

His past was real, and Jason never needed anyone to pretend otherwise. But his past was no longer his identity.

That distinction mattered to him.

The Gospel did not erase Jason's history. It redeemed it.

The man who once needed help became a man who helped others.

The man who once lost his freedom became a man who pointed others toward freedom.

The man who once experienced the consequences of destructive choices became a husband, father, grandfather, businessman, community servant, evangelist, and friend.

Jason became a man worthy of admiration.

Not because he had lived a flawless life.

Far from it.

But because his life demonstrated what can happen when a flawed man encounters a flawless Savior.

Perhaps that is the greatest legacy Jason Christopher Twyman leaves behind.

There may be a parent hearing his story whose child is battling addiction.

Don't give up.

There may be a family with someone sitting in prison who wonders whether anything good can possibly come after this chapter.

Don't give up.

There may be someone who believes that the worst thing he has ever done has become the permanent definition of who he is.

Remember Jason.

Better still, remember Jason's Savior.

Jason would never have wanted his story to end with people making much of Jason Twyman.

He would have wanted people to make much of Jesus Christ.

That is why the darkness in the early chapters of Jason's life should not be hidden. The darkness helps us understand the beauty of the Light that followed.

Jason's earthly journey ended on August 19, 2026.

He leaves behind his beloved wife, Shawna Marie Twyman; his daughter, Sharie; his grandchildren, Theamarie and Jeremiah; his brothers, Bill and Kevin Glasscock, Shaun Twyman, and Dustin Twyman; his parents, Ronald Eugene Twyman and Ruth Anne Schnelly; along with extended family members and a remarkable community of friends whose lives were touched by his generosity, friendship, testimony, humor, work, and faith.

He was preceded in death by his older sister, Michelle Hill.

For Shawna, the loss is beyond what an obituary can describe.

She knew Jason not simply as the businessman, community servant, Christian witness, or friend everyone else saw.

She knew the man at home.

She knew the entire story.

She walked beside him through the ordinary days that actually make a marriage - through work and worry, laughter and disappointment, dreams and responsibilities, coffee and conversation, faith and friendship.

She knew where Jason had been.

And she knew the man he had become.

So today our prayers are especially for Shawna, for Sharie, for Theamarie and Jeremiah, for Jason's parents and brothers, and for every member of the Twyman family.

May the God whom Jason came to know in Enid surround them in their grief.

May Christ be especially near in those quiet moments when everyone else has gone home and Jason's absence suddenly seems unbearable.

May memories that today bring tears eventually bring smiles.

And may Jason's family always remember that his life was much larger than its darkest chapter - and much larger even than his many accomplishments.

Jason's life became a testimony.

A testimony that people can change.

A testimony that no prison is stronger than grace.

A testimony that no addiction places a person beyond redemption.

A testimony that an ordinary Christian named Lester who sings hymns and tells somebody about Jesus can unknowingly help change generations of a family.

A testimony that a tradesman with a toolbox can become the hands of Christ to a family without heat.

A testimony that the person society might once have discarded can someday become the person a community admires.

And ultimately, a testimony that Jesus Christ still changes lives.

Wade Burleson once had the privilege of being Jason Twyman's pastor.

He had the greater privilege of becoming his friend.

And all who loved Jason now have the privilege of carrying his story forward.

Jason's earthly story has ended.

But the Gospel he believed declares that death does not get the final word.

Jesus does.

"I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies."

John 11:25

Rest in Christ, Jason.

You were loved.

You will be missed.

And the grace that changed your life will remain part of your story forever.

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