Former pastor and Southern Baptist missionary, Martin Eugene Elder, dies Nov. 4

Martin Eugene Elder, former pastor and Southern Baptist missionary, died Nov. 4. He was 85. Raised in Kentucky, Elder earned a bachelor’s degree from Howard College (now Samford University) and a master of divinity degree from New Orleans Seminary. He accepted his first pastorate, Pheba Baptist Church in Mississippi, and two years later he became a home missionary for the…