Samford University in Birmingham honored longtime Alabama Baptist pastor and educator Howard Golden, of Wetumpka, for his service to the school and to God at a luncheon Dec. 15, 2014.
Golden recently retired after teaching for almost 60 years in the Samford Extension Division, now the Ministry Training Institute.
Samford President Andrew Westmoreland read a proclamation at the luncheon citing Golden’s long tenure with the program.
“He was the pioneer in expanding the teaching ministry into state and federal prisons,” Westmoreland said.
The Shawmut native was a pastor of churches throughout the state and Indiana and held leadership roles in the Alabama Baptist State Convention. Two of his Alabama pastorates included Lincoln Baptist Church and Calera Baptist Church.
Samford named him an Alabama Minister of the Year in 1996.
Golden served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before earning degrees at Samford and at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., where he graduated in 1952.
He and his wife, Johnnie, have three children, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
(Samford, TAB)
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