• Former Sunday School Board President Lloyd Elder dies

  11/07/2023 - By Baptist Press Staff

  Lloyd Elder, seventh president of the Baptist Sunday School Board—now known as Lifeway Christian Resources—died Nov. 3 at age 90. He led the board from 1984 to 1991.

• Obituary: Betty Ann Kelton Howell

  10/16/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Betty Ann Kelton Howell, lifelong missions supporter and former church secretary, died Oct. 9, 2023, at home in Elysian Fields. She was 87.

• Obituary: Margaret P. Lawson

  10/16/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Margaret P. Lawson, retired professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died Sept. 29. She was 79.

• Obituary: Shantavia Briana “Bree” Reddick

  09/26/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Shantavia Briana Reddick—affectionately known as Bree—died Sept. 9 in Spring. She was 26 and a faithful follower of Jesus Christ.

• Obituary: Dorothy Bernice “Bea” Cromer

  09/25/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Dorothy Bernice “Bea” Cromer, a former missionary and Baptist Standard employee, died Aug. 12 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. She was 96.

• Obituary: Wilbert H. Long

  09/20/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Wilbert Henry Long of San Antonio, longtime Texas Baptist pastor, died Sept. 6. He was 93.

• Obituary: Gil A. Stricklin

  09/14/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Gil A. Stricklin, founder of Marketplace Ministries and former military chaplain, died Sept. 10 at his home in Dallas, one day before his 89th birthday.

• Obituary: Sue Evelyn Snider

  09/02/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Sue Evelyn Snider, former missionary to Ghana, Africa, and retired IT director for the SBC’s Annuity Board—now GuideStone—died Aug. 31. She was 95.

• Obituary: Brandon Rea Followell

  08/25/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Brandon Rea Followell of San Marcos died Aug. 20 in a car accident in Buda. He was 22. Both of his parents are ministers at First Baptist Church in San Marcos.

• Obituary: Gloria Veals

  08/23/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Glorioustean “Gloria” Veals, the “first lady” of City Church in Tulia, died Aug. 18. She was 74.

• Obituary: Faye Jennings Henthorn

  08/23/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Faye Jennings Henthorn, a lifelong Tulia resident who served First Baptist Church there more than four decades as church secretary, died Aug. 13 in Lubbock. She was 91.

• Obituary: Dean Nolan Finley

  08/22/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Dean Nolan Finley, a national Southern Baptist leader in youth evangelism more than three decades, died July 27 after an extended battle with Parkinson’s. He was 71.