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Longtime pastor Earl Holt spent 56 years in ministry

May 3, 2023

Earl L. Holt, pastor of Serenity Baptist Church, Hartselle, died recently at Princeton Baptist Medical Center. A Morgan County native, Holt was in ministry 56

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Pastor emeritus of FBC Fairview dies

May 3, 2023

Horace R. Hall died May 1. He was 86. A Tuscaloosa native, Hall was called to preach in September 1966 and attended Baptist Bible Institute

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Longtime Birmingham-area pastor, director of missions Earl Tew dies at 93

April 26, 2023

Earl Tew, who invested more than 60 years of his life in Alabama Baptist ministry, died April 26. He was 93. A graduate of Howard

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Longtime Citronelle minister of music dies at 80

April 24, 2023

Earl Eugene “Gene” Tagert Jr., 80, of Citronelle died March 31. A Mobile native, Tagert graduated from William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with a music

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Longtime Georgia WMU leader, Alabama native Dorothy Pryor dies at 98

March 17, 2023

Dorothy Marion Pryor, a retired executive director of the Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) of Georgia and Alabama native, died March 12. She was 98.

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Retired missionary, missions pastor Harold Hancock dies

January 11, 2023

Harold Hancock — retired missionary to South Korea and missions minister at First Baptist Church Montgomery — died Jan. 8. He was 85. He and his

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Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor Roy Cordle dies Dec. 31

January 2, 2023

Roy Cordle — who served for more than 50 years as a pastor, much of that in Alabama — died Dec. 31. He was 82.

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IMB missionary emeritus Cearley dies at 68

December 24, 2022

Timothy “Tim” Dane Cearley, an International Mission Board missionary emeritus who shared the gospel in Zimbabwe, Portugal, Mozambique, South Africa and Botswana, died Nov. 5,

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