Veteran music minister dies

Veteran music minister dies

 

Jack Langston, ordained Baptist minister and member of Hunter Street Baptist Church, died Jan. 2.

Langston worked 40 years serving as minister of music at First Baptist Church, Brewton; First Baptist Church, Fort Payne; First Baptist Church, Oxford; Second Baptist Church in Bessemer; and Mountain Creek Baptist Church in Greenville, S.C. As a student at Howard College, Langston served at Shades Mountain Baptist Church, Vestavia Hills. He later studied at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Langston was also a staff sergeant and radio repairman in the Air Force and served in the Korean War.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley, two children and five grandchildren.

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