
Longtime Georgia WMU leader, Alabama native Dorothy Pryor dies at 98
Dorothy Marion Pryor, a retired executive director of the Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) of Georgia and Alabama native, died

Retired missionary, missions pastor Harold Hancock dies
Harold Hancock — retired missionary to South Korea and missions minister at First Baptist Church Montgomery — died Jan. 8. He

Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor Roy Cordle dies Dec. 31
Roy Cordle — who served for more than 50 years as a pastor, much of that in Alabama — died

IMB missionary emeritus Cearley dies at 68
Timothy “Tim” Dane Cearley, an International Mission Board missionary emeritus who shared the gospel in Zimbabwe, Portugal, Mozambique, South Africa

Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor Gil Barrow dies at age 90
Gil Barrow of Montgomery died Nov. 19 in Birmingham following heart surgery. He was 90. A native of Pensacola, Florida,

Former FBC Pelham pastor, Alabama DR leader dies at 86
Jerry Butler, longtime Alabama Baptist pastor and Disaster Relief volunteer, died Nov. 27 in Albertville. He was 86. Butler was

UM biology professor dies after illness
University of Mobile professor Randy Craig died on Dec. 10 after a short illness. Announcing the tenured professor’s passing to

Bivocational pastor of five decades, three counties dies at 98
Calvin Jackson Crocker, 98, a bivocational minister, died Nov. 18. He was born in Perry County and was a veteran