
Longtime pastor Earl Holt spent 56 years in ministry
Earl L. Holt, pastor of Serenity Baptist Church, Hartselle, died recently at Princeton Baptist Medical Center. A Morgan County native,

Pastor emeritus of FBC Fairview dies
Horace R. Hall died May 1. He was 86. A Tuscaloosa native, Hall was called to preach in September 1966

Longtime Birmingham-area pastor, director of missions Earl Tew dies at 93
Earl Tew, who invested more than 60 years of his life in Alabama Baptist ministry, died April 26. He was

Longtime Citronelle minister of music dies at 80
Earl Eugene “Gene” Tagert Jr., 80, of Citronelle died March 31. A Mobile native, Tagert graduated from William Carey College,

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