Trull, Henry Earl

Pleasant Hill pastor dies at 76
Henry Earl Trull, pastor of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Fayette, died Oct. 21. He was 76.

Trull grew up in Echola and joined the Army before entering into full-time ministry. His wife, Linda, remembers him saying countless times about his decision to become a pastor, “God called me and that’s all that matters.”

In 1979 he began pastoring full-time. Over the next 46 years Trull served as pastor of various churches in Alabama, such as Harris Chapel Baptist Church, Cherokee, and Arbor Springs Baptist Church, Reform; Mississippi; and West Virginia before retiring and returning to Echola. But even in retirement Trull served the Lord as director of missions for Sipsey Baptist Association, a role he held for a couple years. He then served bivocationally as pastor of Dunn’s Creek Baptist Church, Echola, before transitioning to Pleasant Hill Baptist, where he was serving at the time of his death.

Trull is survived by his wife of 57 years, three children, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. (TAB)