Conservative nun Mother Angelica dies at 92

April 28, 2016

HANCEVILLE, Ala. — Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, the conservative nun who started the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, died March

Russell, Wallace W. — Former Alabama Baptist pastor dies at 84

April 28, 2016

Wallace W. Russell, a longtime pastor of Alabama Baptist churches, died April 11. He was 84. Russell graduated from the Baptist Bible Institute (now the

Esco, Ralph — Chilton County retired pastor dies at 84

April 28, 2016

Ralph Esco, former pastor of several Alabama Baptist churches, died April 16. He was 84. He served as pastor of New Salem Baptist Church, Clanton;

Former Judson first lady McCrummen dies

March 16, 2016

The first lady of Judson College from 1970 to 1990 — Emma Lee “Kitty” Smalley McCrummen — died Feb. 23 in Mobile. The 94-year-old was

Former minister of music dies at 78

February 18, 2016

Benny M. Russell, former minister of music for several Alabama Baptist churches, died Jan. 30. He was 78. Russell, a native of Huntsville, earned his

Harold A. Shirley — Retired Alabama Baptist pastor dies

February 11, 2016

Harold A. Shirley, founding pastor of Weatherly Heights Baptist Church, Huntsville, died Jan. 23. He was 87. A native of Meridian, Mississippi, Shirley graduated from

IMB missionary to deaf dies of heart attack

January 28, 2016

MERIDIAN, Mississippi — International Mission Board missionary Ray Hodgins died of a heart attack Jan. 18 while on stateside assignment in Mississippi. He was 52.