J.W. Coker, pastor of Olive Branch Baptist Church, Evergreen, for more than five years, died Dec. 25 following an extended illness. Coker served as pastor
Robert Taylor (Bob) Baggott Jr. of Opelika, husband of The Alabama Baptist columnist and former board of directors member Betty Baggott, died unexpectedly Feb. 2
Carl F. Whirley, retired Southern Baptist missionary to Nigeria, died Jan. 8 in Florence after an extended illness. Whirley, 85, was born July 28, 1914,
Robert F. Maxwell, husband of longtime Alabama Baptist employee Bobbie Lawson Maxwell, died Dec. 27 of a heart attack at their home in Bagley. Maxwell,