Retired ministry couple dies in car crash
Edward “Ed” Charles Lyrene, retired pastor of Miflin Baptist Church, Elberta, and his wife, Sarah Ann Carnathan Lyrene, died May 16 in an automobile crash with a tractor trailer near Uniontown.
He was 75 and she was 70. They had been married 48 years.
Edward Lyrene, who founded Miflin Baptist in Baldwin Baptist Association in 1991, also served other churches, including Isney Baptist, Silas, in Choctaw Baptist Association.
He studied at the University of Alabama (UA); Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky; and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Sarah Lyrene also studied at UA and at Judson College in Marion and was a gifted pianist.
At the time of the accident, they were residents of Northport. (TAB)
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