Southern Baptist executive Frazier dies

ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. — Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee Secretary Ann Frazier died Jan. 1 after fighting a 10-year battle with cancer. She was 64.

Frazier was a highly respected member of the Executive Committee and was known as an advocate for traditional Christian values in her home state of North Carolina. She was involved for 20 years with adolescent sexuality issues, especially the promotion of abstinence-based education and wrote the original grant that funded North Carolina’s “Abstinence Until Marriage” education. She also helped to draft numerous pieces of legislation impacting the state’s education system.

Frazier was elected to the Executive Committee in 1997. In 2001 she was re-elected to a second term that would have expired in 2005. She served on the Cooperative Program subcommittee and was on the Boards and Commissions workgroup during the 2000-01 term. In 2001-02, she was on the administrative subcommittee group and bylaws workgroup.