 In later years when a full name was required for his passport Criswell supplied his father's first and middle names.Criswell grew up in Texline in Dallam County, the most northwesterly community in the Texas Panhandle, where his cowboy-barber father moved the family in 1915.At age ten, young W. A. professed faith in Christ at a revival meeting led by the evangelist Reverend John Hicks.