Southern Baptist evangelist, pastor dies at 75
Ron Herrod, a Southern Baptist evangelist and former Alabama Baptist pastor, died Oct. 9 after bone marrow transplant procedures. He was 75.
Herrod, who lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, had been diagnosed in May with a bone marrow disease, MDS, leading to leukemia.
He served more than 35 years as a pastor of Baptist churches — including serving at Navco Baptist Church, Mobile — before launching Ron Herrod Evangelism Ministries Association in 1995.
Franklin Kirksey, who served on staff with Herrod at First Baptist Church, Kenner, Louisiana, said Herrod kept an “unflinching stand upon the divinely inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God.”
With Herrod “we always saw a harvest of souls,” Kirksey said. “Heaven has gained a jewel.”
Herrod earned a bachelor’s degree from William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; a master’s degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; and a doctorate from Luther Rice Seminary in Lithonia, Georgia.
Herrod is survived by his wife of 55 years, Emily; a son, Joseph; two daughters, Dawn and Twila; and 11 grandchildren. (TAB)
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