Obituary: Katherine Dawn Holster
Katherine Dawn Holster of Levelland, educator and pastor’s wife, died Sept. 29. She was 63. She was born in Tucumcari, N.M., on Nov. 23, 1956, to H. Don and Joan Smith. She graduated from Robertson High School in Las Vegas, N.M., in 1974. She attended college at West Texas State University and graduated magna cum laude in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science degree and a certificate in secondary education. She married Michael Holster on July 29, 1978, in Canyon. She served faithfully as the wife of a minister as her husband served churches in Hobbs, O’Donnell, Slaton, Memphis, Floydada and Midland, and for the past 17 years, Second Baptist Church Levelland. Holster was devoted to making disciples and to teaching the Bible, serving as Sunday school teacher, Vacation Bible School leader and Bible Drill instructor. She baked countless casseroles and loaves of bread to serve those in need. She was an educator and a life-long learner who believed math is the foundation for problem-solving and critical thinking. She taught in the Amarillo, Tulia, Floydada, Stanton, Greenwood and Levelland school districts. Holster obtained her master’s degree in education from Wayland Baptist University in 2006, and she served on faculty in the mathematics department at South Plains College for 14 years, retiring in 2017. She loved reading, baking, going on nature walks and making crafts with her grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a sister, Della Boley. She is survived by her husband of 42 years, Michael Holster; son, Scot Holster and wife Mindy Michelle of Abilene; son, Sean Holster and wife Mindy Alaine of Brenham; five grandchildren; mother, Joan Smith of Levelland; sister, Donna Hinders of Los Lunas, N.M.; and brother, Robert Smith of Okmulgee Okla. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the lighting fund at Second Baptist Church, Levelland, South Plains College Scholarship Foundation, or to the charity of choice.
Marvin C. Delaney of Houston, a Texas Baptist pastor, died Oct. 6. He was 72. Delaney was born Oct. 12, 1947, in Le Compte, La., to Rogers Delaney and Marion Thompson Delaney. He graduated from LaMarque High School in 1966 and went to work for Shell Oil Company in 1968, where he met his future wife Georgia Gary. They had three children—Christopher, Demetra and Michara. He was licensed to the gospel ministry in 1989 and became associate pastor of South Park Baptist Church in 1990. After he left Shell Oil in a voluntary restructure program, he was named interim pastor of South Park Baptist Church in July 1992 when Pastor George May retired. Delaney was ordained the following year and was installed as pastor of South Park Baptist Church on March 27, 1993. His educational background included studies at Alvin College, Texas Southern University, the University of Houston and the Houston Graduate School of Theology. He served on the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board and was a past moderator of Union Baptist Association and officer of Texas Baptists’ African American Fellowship. He was involved in mission teams to Jamaica, Dutch Antilles, Colombia and Haiti. He was chair of the board of directors for the South Central Houston Community Health Center, in addition to other community involvement.
Lori Michelle Dockrey of Colorado City, minister to youth and children, died Sept. 10. She was 43. She was born Nov. 25, 1976, in Colorado City to Jim Dockrey and Christy Stubblefield Dockrey. She earned a Masters of Arts in Christian Education degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. She not only was the longtime youth and children’s minister at First Baptist Church in Colorado City, but also was a friend, role model and No. 1 fan to all her students, past and present. She was an avid sports fan and attended the games of all her students whenever possible. She served as secretary for the board of the West Texas Children’s Advocacy Center, on the executive staff at Super Summer camps, on the board for Texas Baptist Conclave and as Fellowship of Christian Athletes huddle coach for the Colorado City Independent School District. She also was involved in the Mitchell County Ministerial Alliance, Rachel’s Challenge for Anti-bullying and RAD Self Defense Training. She is survived by her father Jim Dockrey and wife Sherry of Colorado City; her mother Christy Dockrey of Granbury; her brothers Justin Dockrey and wife Shane of Midland and Lance Dockrey and wife Caroline of Kandern, Germany; step-brothers Zach Anderson and wife Ashley of Corpus Christi and Jed Anderson and wife Misti of Canyon; and grandmothers, Dorris Dockrey and Ernestine O’Dell.
Randall “Randy” Lee Gallaway of Lubbock—collegiate minister, missions volunteer and motivational speaker—died Sept. 10. He was 73. He was born Sept. 9, 1947, to Norris Weaver and Mary Virginia (Moore) Gallaway in Austin. Weeks before his high school graduation, he suffered a devastating injury while assisting an electrician at his part-time job as an intern for American Manufacturing in Fort Worth. Doctors initially said there was no chance of recovery. After a lengthy hospitalization, 38 surgeries and rehabilitation, he graduated from Amon G. Carter Riverside High School in Fort Worth in 1967. Although he lost all of one arm and part of another, he was motivated to make the most of his second chance at life. He earned an engineering degree with honors at the University of Texas at Arlington before pursuing a lifetime of missions and ministry work. He met Mary Ann Milliken of Lubbock while leading evangelism workshops for the Baptist Student Union at Texas Tech University. They married in 1975. He graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1978 and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in 1987. In the mid-1980s, the Gallaways moved to Canada to plant a church and minister to college students. As self-supporting Mission Service Corps volunteers, they worked first in Vancouver, British Columbia, before launching student ministries in Toronto at the invitation of the Canadian National Baptist Convention. The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board appointed them as their first career missionaries to students in Canada. Their joint biography, Death Knocking, Life Calling, was published in 2014. In print and in numerous presentations around the globe, Gallaway presented his life motto: “Never give up! As long as there is breath in you, you must hold onto hope.” Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Gallaway; children, John Gallaway and wife Chelsea of Casper, Wy., and Sage Gallaway of Lubbock; four grandchildren; sister Nancy Cooper; and brother Rex Gallaway.
Annie Sue Painter Inmon, one of the original Flying Queens women’s basketball team at what was then Wayland Baptist College, died Sept. 18 in Denton. She was 92. She was born on Easter Sunday, April 8, 1928, to L.M. and Elizabeth Ann Crow in Friona, the youngest of nine children. After graduating from Friona High School, she went to Wayland Baptist College, where she played for the Flying Queens from 1946 to 1949. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Wayland in 1950 and later earned a master’s degree from West Texas State University in Canyon. She started her teaching career in 1950 at Kress, teaching math. She spent the next 34 years teaching at O’Donnell; Westlake, Ark.; Littlefield; Wellington; Quail; and Hereford. As a member of Temple Baptist Church in Hereford, she sang in the choir, taught a women’s Sunday school class and participated in four mission trips to Central and South America. She was preceded in death by her first husband Tobb Painter and her second husband Vernon Inmon.
Jesse L. Kidd, retired Baptist missionary to Brazil, died Sept. 24, 2020, in Robert Lee. He was 97. He was born to Ida Kidd and John Kidd on Sept. 20, 1923, in their farmhouse near Urbana, Ark. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on May, 10, 1944, and served in the China/Burma/India Theater. He was honorably discharged April 14, 1946. Kidd surrendered to the gospel ministry while he was a student at Ouachita Baptist College and was ordained by Urbana Baptist Church on Jan. 11, 1948. He served two student pastorates while completing his undergraduate degree at Ouachita. He studied at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary while traveling each weekend from Fort Worth to El Dorado, Ark., to serve Ebenezer Baptist Church as pastor. At seminary, he responded to God’s call to serve as a foreign missionary. He completed the Master of Divinity degree at Southwestern Seminary, and he began service as a missionary to Brazil beginning in March 1958. He served in Volta Redonda in the state of Rio de Janeiro nine years, supported by churches of Liberty Baptist Association in Arkansas. He met Wilma Alice Gemmell, associate missionary with the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, who was working in the mission board’s financial office in Rio de Janeiro. They married Oct. 14, 1967 in St. John’s Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C. They were named associate missionaries of the Foreign Mission Board on March 13, 1969, and returned to Brazil in July. They served six years in the state of Santa Catarina in pioneer evangelism before health reasons compelled them to move to the state of Minas Gerais, where he became director of missions of the North Association of Baptist Churches, serving the area around Montes Claros. He was granted honorary citizenship by the city council of Montes Claros on Sept. 22, 1988—the first time the council had so honored a non-Brazilian. Missionary service in Brazil continued until 1989 when the Kidds retired to Baptist Retirement Community in San Angelo. They wrote The Kidds of Brazil, their joint autobiographies. Kidd continued ministry by preaching, promoting the Lottie Moon Offering for International Missions and teaching the Bible in the chapel of Baptist Retirement Community. He was preceded in death by siblings George Kidd and Willie Mae Pelham. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Wilma Alice Gemmell Kidd. Memorial gifts may be made to the Wilma Alice Gemmell Kidd and Jesse Kidd Endowed Scholarship at Howard Payne University.
Helen Lucille Hoy of Cedar Park, a lay preschool ministry leader for more than four decades, died Sept. 12. She was 98 years old. She was born in McGregor on Nov. 23, 1921, to Ernest and Tillie Brandes. In 1951, she and her husband Horace joined Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin. Eight years later, she became a preschool division director at the church enlisting and training teachers for Sunday School and Vacation Bible School for 29 years. Helen retired from the position in 1987 to attend Sunday School with her husband. When Hyde Park’s south educational building was completed, she served as director for a 4-year-old department for two and half years. In 1995, after her husband of 54 years died, she again found her place of service as greeter and secretary in the preschool. In all, she served 44 years in Hyde Park Baptist Church’s preschool ministry. She also led conferences for the Baptist General Convention of Texas related to Sunday school and Vacation Bible School. She served 13 years as co-director of Hyde Park’s Widowed Persons Support Group. She is survived by her brother Max Brandes of McGregor; daughter Kristy Fisher and her husband Dennis of Austin; daughter Judy Crooks and her husband Larry of Round Rock; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Raymond Vickrey, longtime Texas Baptist pastor, died Sept. 17 of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 86. He was born in Temple to Irian and Bernice Vickrey and grew up in Galena Park. At Baylor University, he was a two-time Southwest Conference long jump champion and a member of the 440-yard relay team that broke the existing world record in 1956. His achievements in track and field earned him induction into the Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002. After completing his undergraduate degree at Baylor, he earned a Master of Divinity degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and later a doctorate from the Graduate Foundation of Notre Dame. He felt a call to pastoral ministry early in life and was ordained at Memorial Baptist Church in Temple at age 20. After serving as the pastor of Memorial’s mission congregation as a freshman at Baylor and later as a part-time pastor in Honey Grove during seminary, he would not serve another church as pastor until a few decades later. He worked in student ministry at Baylor University and was executive director of the Baylor Alumni Association in the mid-1960s. After several years as minister of single adults at First Baptist Church in Richardson, Royal Lane Baptist Church in Dallas called him as senior pastor. The call came after a divorce from his first wife put his candidacy as pastor of any Baptist church in doubt—an experience that reinforced his empathy for the marginalized in church and society, his family observed. He served Royal Lane from 1981 until his retirement in 2008—more than half of the 50 years he spent in ministry. He used his time at Royal Lane to bring others who felt marginalized by the church into leadership roles and to build interfaith friendships to support religious liberty for all. He is survived by his wife Sharon Vickrey; brother Robert Vickrey; children Larry Vickrey, Blake Vickrey, Raelynn (Dan) Olson and husband Dan, and Garrett Vickrey and wife Cameron; and four grandchildren. A virtual memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. on Nov. 1 and can be viewed on the 
L.E. “Chief” Lawson of Lucas, Baptist evangelist and denominational leader, died Sept. 16. He was 90. Lawson was born March 12, 1930, to Eual and Audra Lawson. He graduated from Hardin-Simmons University and earned his Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Lawson was a high school football coach and a pastor in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado before becoming evangelism director for the Baptist Convention of Indiana. He went on to serve 21 year as director of evangelism with the Baptist Convention of New Mexico. He represented the Southern Baptist Convention’s Home Mission Board in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and at the Baptist World Alliance in Japan. He directed crusades in the Philippines in 1980 and in England in 1983. Lawson served as president of the State Directors of Evangelism for the SBC in 1984. He was involved nationally with the Bill Glass Prison Ministry. He received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award at Hardin-Simmons in 1980 and the Distinguished Leadership Award in 1988 from the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership. He was preceded in death by brothers Eual Lawson Jr. and Bill Lawson. He is survived by wife; Sue; son Mark Lawson; son Monty Lawson and wife Dianna; and three grandchildren.
Royce Lee Measures, a Texas Baptist pastor and chaplain emeritus of the Pasadena Police Department, died July 29 of COVID-19. He was 85. He was born in Odessa on June 27, 1935, to William “Bill” Henry and Clara Cordelia (Crowe) Measures. At age 15, he devoted his life to full-time vocational Christian service. After he graduated from Midland High School, he attended Wayland Baptist College where he met his wife Hilda Christine “Chris” Rice. They married on Dec. 27, 1955, in Cockrell Hill. At Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he earned Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Theology and Doctor of Theology degrees. He was pastor of Golden Acres Baptist Church in Pasadena from 1986 to 2007. Previously, he served Baptist churches in Perley, Cumby, Wolfe City, Princeton, Kemp and Kerens. For more than 30 years, he was volunteer chaplain for the Pasadena Police Department. He taught religion at San Jacinto Community College and was involved with Union Baptist Association and the Texas Baptist Historical Society. In retirement, he continued to serve as an interim pastor at several Houston-area churches, including Uvalde Baptist Church in Houston, and South Main Baptist Church and Market Street Baptist Church, both in Pasadena. He was preceded in death by his son Mark Carter Measures and his brother Lenard Measures. He is survived by his wife of 63 years Chris Measures; daughter Lydia and husband David Ramirez; grandson James Royce Measures; and brother Leon Measures of Livingston.