Don Bennett, a former pastor and Baptist campus minister at the University of Alabama, died Feb. 5.
Bennett served at UA from 1981 to 1990.
He also served as a campus minister for North Georgia College and Georgia College as well as pastor of Little Sandy Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Highland Baptist Church in Gordo and Mount Hebron East Baptist Church in Wetumpka.
He was the husband of Mary Sue, who for 16 years served as special assistant to Rick Lance, executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. The couple married in 1967 after meeting at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Bennett held a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and sociology from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and a bachelor of divinity and master of divinity from Southern Seminary.
He is preceded in death by his granddaughter, Mary Catherine. He is survived by his wife; son, John; daughter, Susan; and four grandchildren.
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