• Obituary: Hal Reese Kirk

  05/18/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Hal Reese Kirk, a deacon and Bible study leader, died May 9 in Plano. He was 86.

• Constance “Connie” Gayle Billinger Davis

  05/13/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Constance “Connie” Gayle Billinger Davis of Abilene, teacher and social worker, died May 8. She was 70.

• Musician Squire Parsons moves on to ‘Sweet Beulah Land’

  05/08/2025 - By Staff / The Baptist Paper

  Squire Parsons Jr., longtime Southern Gospel singer-songwriter, died May 5. He was 77.

• Obituary: Freddy Mason

  05/06/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Freddy Mason of Carthage, who served the same rural Panola County church as pastor more than five and a half decades, died May 5. He was 79.

• Obituary: Melvin William Clinton Jr.

  04/15/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Melvin William Clinton Jr. of Turkey, longtime Texas Baptist pastor, died April 11 in Silverton. He was 88.

• Obituary: Marguerite Gaston Garrett

  04/15/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Marguerite Gaston Garrett, former member of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board, died April 8. She was 98.

• Obituary: F.B. Huey

  04/14/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  F.B. Huey Jr., longtime seminary professor and former missionary, died April 7. He was 100.

• Obituary: Bertha Dell Mieth

  04/14/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Bertha Dell Mieth, supporter of global evangelism and Wayland Baptist University, died April 9 in Fort Worth. She was 88.

• Obituary: Clifford Dane

  03/25/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Clifford Dane, a Southern Baptist missionary emeritus who served in Belize and Brazil, died Jan. 7. He was 86.

• Obituary: Lurae ‘Looie’ Biffar

  03/22/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Lurae “Looie” Biffar, who served Texas Baptists and Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas more than a half-century as a graphic designer, died March 21 in Chico. She was 79.

• Obituary: T. Farrar Patterson

  03/22/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Travis Farrar Patterson, Baptist minister and former seminary professor, died Feb. 16 in Aledo. He was 91.

• Church historian and columnist Martin Marty dead at 97

  02/28/2025 - By Bruce Buursma / Religion News Service

  Martin E. Marty, an eminent church historian, prolific chronicler and interpreter of religion and its role in public life, died at the age of 97 on Feb. 25 in a Minneapolis care facility where he spent his final years.