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
MacLaren, former CP/stewardship director for SBOM, dies at 79
John MacLaren, longtime pastor and former director of the office of Cooperative Program/stewardship development for the Alabama Baptist State Board
Missions advocate dies at 95, leaves a ‘no regrets’ legacy of being on mission
Missions. It’s a story Marguerite Butler went looking for and once she found it she just couldn’t stop chasing it.
Evangelist, former Alabama Baptist pastor Larry Draper dies at 75
Larry W. Draper, longtime evangelist and former pastor of Roebuck Park Baptist Church, Birmingham, died Aug. 21. He was 75.