
Retired Barbour Association DOM, R.C. Belcher, dies at 92
R.C. Belcher, retired director of missions for Barbour Baptist Association, died Dec. 13. He was 92. Belcher earned a bachelor’s

Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor, active volunteer dies at 73
Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor Ronald Gordon Hicks died Dec. 6. He was 73. In his more than 40 years of

Sylvania Baptist music director Sizemore dies at 41
Chip Sizemore, music director at Sylvania Baptist Church died on October 26. He was 41. Sizemore served Sylvania Baptist for

UM athletics director, founding baseball coach dies at 64
Mike Jacobs, baseball coach and athletics director (AD) at the University of Mobile (UM), has died at the age of

Longtime Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes staff member dies at 91
Longtime business administrator for the Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries (ABCH) Jack Milton Curtis died Sept. 22. He

FBC Tarrant pastor Larry Wilhite dies at 77
Larry Wilhite, pastor of First Baptist Church, Tarrant, died Nov. 9. He was 77. A Birmingham native Wilhite spent his

Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor and missionary, Shelby Smith, dies at 92
Shelby Andrew Smith Sr., a longtime Alabama Baptist pastor and missionary, died Sept. 25. He was 92. A native of

Carner, longtime Alabama Baptist music minister, dies at 88
John William “Bill” Carner, a longtime music minister at churches in Alabama and other states, died Sept. 11. He was