June Whitlow, former senior associate executive director of national Woman’s Missionary Union, died Feb. 20. She was 87.
Born in Arkansas and raised in Illinois, she was a member of every WMU age-level missions discipleship group in her local church. Her father was a Baptist minister, and her mother actively served in local, associational and state WMU organizations.
Whitlow attributed her life’s work through national WMU to her parents’ love for missions and the Southern Baptist Convention.
Whitlow was a graduate of Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi (now Blue Mountain Christian University). She received a master’s degree in religious education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Variety of WMU roles
Whitlow worked with Georgia WMU in Atlanta before beginning her service with national WMU in Birmingham. She served with national WMU for 36 years, retiring as senior associate executive director. In her tenure at WMU, Whitlow worked with four WMU executive directors and served as executive director of Baptist Nursing Fellowship. A member of Mountain Brook Baptist Church, she also served as a mentor through Christian Women’s Job Corps, a compassion ministry of national WMU, and as Birmingham Metro Baptist Association’s WMU director.
Whitlow was predeceased by her parents, John P. and Agnes Griffin Whitlow; and brothers, Samuel Whitlow and James Whitlow.
She is survived by her sister, Nancy Whitlow; longtime friend, Patricia Ferguson; and CWJC mentee, Janet Gillispie, and Gillispie’s daughter, Brittany.
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