RALEIGH, N.C. — Marse Grant, editor emeritus of North Carolina Baptists’ state paper, Biblical Recorder, died Oct. 17 at his home in Raleigh. He was 88. Grant edited the Recorder from 1960–1982, longer than any other editor in the paper’s history. He previously was editor of Charity and Children, a North Carolina Baptist Children’s Homes publication, from 1949–1959.
Grant became one of the best-known North Carolina Baptists, attending more than 50 North Carolina Baptist State Convention annual meetings. Under his leadership, the Recorder’s circulation peaked at more than 120,000 in 1978.
He had previously served as editor of two secular North Carolina newspapers, the Lincoln County News and the Morgan News-Herald. After his retirement, he wrote columns for the Charlotte Observer and the High Point Enterprise.
Grant, whose first name was James, was born Sept. 13, 1920 in High Point, N.C. In addition to Marian, his wife of 66 years, Grant is survived by three daughters, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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