Aimee Elizabeth Milstead, the 12-year-old daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries Grady and Claire Milstead, died suddenly May 15 in Trelew, Argentina, where she lived with her parents who served as career missionaries with the International Mission Board since 1985.
She was at school when she suffered a seizure.
Nearly 300 attended a memorial service at Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., to memorialize Aimee and to pay their respects to her family.
W.G. Robertson, pastor of Bellview Baptist Church in Bellview and long-time friend and mentor of the Mistread family, brought a message from 1 Peter.
Jerry Rankin, president of the IMB, offered words of appreciation for Aimee and for the witness her family has perpetuated through their ministry.
Aimee’s maternal grandparents, Allen and Rebecca Biggs, are members of Southside Baptist Church in Monroevile.
Her paternal grandparents, W.G. and June Milstead, are members of Dogwood Park Baptist Church in Molino, Fla.
Grady Milstead is a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and East Texas Baptist University.
He and Claire (formerly Biggs), who is from Monroeville, have been on assignment in Argentina since 1987.
The Milsteads reside in Trelew, which is in the southernmost part of Argentina in Patagonia.
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