Uldine Utley


Uldine Utley was an American Pentecostal child preacher.
Utley was born in Durant, Oklahoma. She was converted in 1921 through the preaching of Aimee Semple McPherson in Fresno, California. Within two years Utley was preaching, and at the age of fourteen she preached to a crowd of 14,000 people at Madison Square Garden.
In 1935, she was ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church. She married Wilbur Eugene Langkop in 1938, but was committed to a mental hospital shortly after her marriage. Utley spent the rest of her life in and out of mental institutions.
Utley was called "the Joan of Arc of the modern religious world".