Obituaries

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  • 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.

  • Obituary: Levi Weldon Price

    02/24/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Levi Weldon Price Jr., Baptist missionary, pastor and seminary professor, died Feb. 19. He was 83.

  • Obituary: J. Melburn Sibley

    02/11/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    J. Melburn Sibley of Grapevine, a Texas Baptist pastor and denominational worker, died Dec. 16. He was 89.

  • Obituary: Jerry R. Stratton

    02/11/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Jerry R. Stratton, a Texas Baptist minister, associational director of missions and retired U.S. Army officer, died Jan. 18. He was 91.

  • Obituary: Melissa Kaye Yeary Wells

    02/11/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Melissa Kaye Yeary Wells, children’s Sunday school teacher and daughter of one Baptist pastor and wife of another, died Feb. 4 in Houston. She was 59.

  • Obituary: Harold Wayne Temple

    02/04/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Harold Wayne Temple of Plainview, longtime professor at Wayland Baptist University and onetime pastor of Old Rock Baptist Church in Somerset, died Jan. 27. He was 86.

  • Obituary: Salvador Castorena Bernal

    01/22/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Salvador Castorena Bernal of Vernon, pastor of Primera Iglesia Bautista in Lockney, died Jan. 19 in Wichita Falls. He was 64.

  • Obituary: Margie Ann Mines

    01/16/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Margie Ann Mines, long-time Southern Baptist missionary, died Dec. 29. She was 89.

  • Obituary: Todd Condell Hamilton

    01/09/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Todd Condell Hamilton Sr., retired missionary and pastor, died Dec. 17 in Houston. He was 96.

  • Obituary: Marci Lynn Parrott Chaddick

    01/08/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Marci Lynn Parrott Chaddick of San Marcos, a pastor’s wife and former missionary to Ethiopia, died at home Jan. 4 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 53.

  • Obituary: Robert Owen Rachuig

    01/03/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

    Robert Owen Rachuig, Texas Baptist pastor and home missionary, died Dec. 19 in Garland. He was 85.