Obituaries

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  • Obituary: Jorge Sotomayor Contreras

    11/19/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Jorge Sotomayor Contreras, longtime pastor and ministry leader, died Nov. 2 in Harlingen. He was 65.

  • Obituary: Patricia Wood

    11/13/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Patricia Ann Alexander Wood, former pastor’s wife and ministry partner, died Oct. 27 in Waco. She was 91

  • Obituary: Edna Huskison Wood

    11/13/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Edna Huskison Wood, longtime ministry and organizational leader, died Nov. 5 in Waco. She was 79.

  • Obituary: Clyde Hart

    11/13/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Clyde Hart, longtime Baylor University track and field coach and deacon at First Baptist Church of Waco, died Nov. 1 in Waco. He was 91.

  • Obituary: Joe E. Trull

    11/12/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Joe E. Trull, former Texas Baptist pastor and seminary professor, died Nov. 2 at his home in Lake Wylie, S.C. He was 89.

  • Obituary: Carroll O. Prewitt Jr.

    11/05/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Carroll O. Prewitt Jr., a longtime volunteer in Texas Baptist Men disaster relief and prison ministry, died Oct. 31. He was 80.

  • Obituary: Charles Fake

    11/03/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Charles Fake, longtime Texas Baptist pastor and former member of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board, died Oct. 18. He was 94.

  • Obituary: Donald E. Lewis

    11/03/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Donald E. Lewis, Texas Baptist pastor and denominational worker, died Oct. 27. He was 91.

  • Obituary: Robert Lewis Newman

    11/03/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Robert Lewis Newman, minister of pastoral care at Baptist Temple Church in San Antonio, died Oct. 24. He was 79.

  • Morris Chapman, longtime SBC leader, dead at 84

    10/21/2025 - By Erin Roach

    Morris H. Chapman, former pastor, former Southern Baptist Convention president, former SBC Executive Committee president and champion of the Cooperative Program, died Oct. 20, at age 84.

  • Obituary: Eleanor Davis

    10/15/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Eleanor Frances White Davis, a missions advocate, musician and former officer of Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas, died Oct. 8 in Granbury. She was 92.

  • Obituary: Charles ‘Chuck’ Davis

    10/13/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Charles “Chuck” William Davis Jr., chair of the board of trustees at Hardin-Simmons University, died Oct. 1 in McKinney. He was 67.