Baptist missionary, Alabama native dies at 91

MERIDIAN, Miss. — Selma native Georgia Mae Ogburn, an emeritus Southern Baptist missionary to Chile, died April 14 at age 91. Appointed by the Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board) in 1940, Ogburn headed the women’s department of the Chilean Baptist Theological Seminary in Santiago before accepting the position of executive secretary-treasurer for Chile’s Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) in 1948. In addition to WMU, she taught a young women’s Sunday school class, led devotionals for Girls in Action camps and served as a trustee for several Baptist institutions in Chile. In 1976, the year she retired, Ogburn received the Chilean government’s top honor for noncitizens who have demonstrated altruism, dedication and respect for the Chilean people.