Retired Alabama Baptist pastor Samuel M. Brown died Jan. 2. He was 97. A Cullman native, Brown was a graduate of Samford University in Birmingham and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. During his 50 years of full-time ministry, he served Dalraida Baptist Church, Montgomery; Siluria Baptist Church, Alabaster; Trinity Memorial Baptist Church, Montgomery; Tallaweka Baptist Church, Tallassee; First…