Dolls salute former Baptist women leaders

Two historic Alabama women — one who was known as “the sweetheart of Southern Baptists” and another who was involved in founding two Alabama Baptist colleges — have been commemorated with dolls dressed in period clothing. The dolls depict Kathleen Mallory, who served as executive secretary of national Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) from 1912 to 1948, and Julia Tarrant Barron,…