Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor Clinton Wood died April 3. He was 93.
After serving in the U.S. Navy, Wood graduated from Howard College (now Samford University) and went to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
He began his pastoral ministry at 66th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham. They planted South Roebuck Baptist Church, Birmingham, in 1954, and Wood became its founding pastor. He later served as pastor of First Baptist Church, Albertville; Northport Baptist Church; South Avondale Baptist Church, Birmingham; and First Baptist Church, Sandusky, in Birmingham. He retired in 1993.
Wood also served on several Alabama Baptist State Convention entity boards.
He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Dot; son, Clinton Wayne; daughters, Cathy, Beth and Lynn; six grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
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