Clyta Verne Agee McAtee Gentry
Former Alabama Baptist active at state level dies
Clyta Verne Agee McAtee Gentry, who served in a variety of state-level positions as well as alongside her husband at Alabama Baptist churches, died Sept. 9. She was 96.
A native of Arkansas, Gentry graduated from Texas Woman’s University in Denton in 1943 and earned her master’s degree from Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi.
She served as corresponding secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention Minister’s Wives Conference and recording secretary for the Alabama Baptist Minister’s Wives Conference as well as secretary for Alabama Woman’s Missionary Union. She also served on the administrative committee (now executive committee) of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.
Gentry married Delbert Chappell McAtee in 1945. He served as pastor of Central Baptist Church, Phenix City; First Baptist Church, Lanett; Lakewood Baptist Church, Birmingham; and churches in Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma. After his death in 1995, she was married to William Roland Gentry Jr. from 1999 until his death in 2006.
She is survived by one daughter, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. (TAB)
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