UM athletics director, founding baseball coach dies at 64
December 11, 2019
Mike Jacobs, baseball coach and athletics director (AD) at the University of Mobile (UM), has died at the age of 64. A Mobile native, Jacobs
Longtime Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes staff member dies at 91
November 27, 2019
Longtime business administrator for the Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries (ABCH) Jack Milton Curtis died Sept. 22. He was 91. Curtis served ABCH
FBC Tarrant pastor Larry Wilhite dies at 77
November 16, 2019
Larry Wilhite, pastor of First Baptist Church, Tarrant, died Nov. 9. He was 77. A Birmingham native Wilhite spent his early life in Jacksonville, Florida.
Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor and missionary, Shelby Smith, dies at 92
October 9, 2019
Shelby Andrew Smith Sr., a longtime Alabama Baptist pastor and missionary, died Sept. 25. He was 92. A native of Jemison, Smith earned his bachelor’s
Carner, longtime Alabama Baptist music minister, dies at 88
October 2, 2019
John William “Bill” Carner, a longtime music minister at churches in Alabama and other states, died Sept. 11. He was 88. Carner served as music
MacLaren, former CP/stewardship director for SBOM, dies at 79
October 2, 2019
John MacLaren, longtime pastor and former director of the office of Cooperative Program/stewardship development for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM), died Sept.
Missions advocate dies at 95, leaves a ‘no regrets’ legacy of being on mission
September 16, 2019
Missions. It’s a story Marguerite Butler went looking for and once she found it she just couldn’t stop chasing it. It all started with a
Evangelist, former Alabama Baptist pastor Larry Draper dies at 75
September 11, 2019
Larry W. Draper, longtime evangelist and former pastor of Roebuck Park Baptist Church, Birmingham, died Aug. 21. He was 75. A graduate of Samford University
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