Obituaries

  • 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.

  • 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.