Former Alabamian, Baptist missionary dies

SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Edith Rose Weller, an emeritus Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil, died April 24. She was 86.

Born in Bethlehem, Ky., Weller was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board) in 1945. She served as a teacher in a Baptist primary school in Manaus and a Baptist training school for women in Recife. She also served as executive secretary-treasurer of the Baptist woman’s organization in Para state and assisted with religious education programs in various churches.

For 10 years prior to her retirement in 1966, she assisted the treasurer for three organizations of Southern Baptist missionaries in Brazil.

Weller was a graduate of Georgetown (Ky.) College and the Woman’s Missionary Union Training School (now merged with Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) in Louisville, Ky. She taught school in Kentucky, Alabama and Tennessee before ­missionary appointment.