• Obituary: Jimmie Nelson

  05/23/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Jimmie L Nelson, , longtime Baptist pastor and seminary professor, died May 14. He was 97.

• Obituary: James Edward Tye

  05/21/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  James Edward Tye of Allen, longtime Baptist missionary to Ecuador, died May 16. He was 89.

• 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.