Obituaries in The Alabama Baptist serve to alert readers of the passing of Alabama Baptist leaders and church staff members.

April 28, 2016

HANCEVILLE, Ala. — Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, the conservative nun who started the Shrine of the Most Blessed

April 28, 2016

Wallace W. Russell, a longtime pastor of Alabama Baptist churches, died April 11. He was 84. Russell graduated from the

April 28, 2016

Ralph Esco, former pastor of several Alabama Baptist churches, died April 16. He was 84. He served as pastor of

March 16, 2016

The first lady of Judson College from 1970 to 1990 — Emma Lee “Kitty” Smalley McCrummen — died Feb. 23

February 18, 2016

Benny M. Russell, former minister of music for several Alabama Baptist churches, died Jan. 30. He was 78. Russell, a

February 11, 2016

Harold A. Shirley, founding pastor of Weatherly Heights Baptist Church, Huntsville, died Jan. 23. He was 87. A native of

January 28, 2016

MERIDIAN, Mississippi — International Mission Board missionary Ray Hodgins died of a heart attack Jan. 18 while on stateside assignment

January 21, 2016

Lyndon T. Montgomery, former pastor of several Alabama Baptist churches, died Jan. 8. He was 92. When he was in

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