• Obituary: Louis Palmer McCown

  01/10/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Louis Palmer McCown, longtime collegiate minister and later minister to senior adults, died Dec. 25 in Midland. He was 83.

• Obituary: Joe Vernon

  12/21/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Joe Vernon, a Texas Baptist pastor more than four decades, died Dec. 20 in Beeville. He was 91.

• Obituary: Craig Bird

  12/21/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Craig Bird, Baptist journalist and educator, died Dec. 12 due to complications from a fall the week before. He was 73

• Obituary: Gene Rotramel

  12/05/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Harvey Gene Rotramel, a Texas Baptist pastor more than three decades, died Nov. 25 in El Paso. He was 83. 

• Obituary: Lawson James Hager Jr.

  11/24/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Lawson James Hager Jr., former director of Hardin-Simmons University’s Cowboy Band and dean of the HSU School of Music and Fine Arts, died Nov. 19. He was 78.

• Obituary: Lynda Ballou

  11/11/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Lynda Ballou, longtime teacher and children’s ministry volunteer at First Baptist Church in Arlington, died Oct. 24 after a prolonged illness. She was 80.

• Obituary: Ed Rogers

  10/26/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Edward “Ed” Rogers of Georgetown, Texas Baptist pastor and denominational leader, died Oct. 23. He was 88.

• Chaplaincy Relations Director Bobby Smith dies

  10/19/2022 - By Texas Baptists Communications

  Bobby Smith, founding director of Chaplaincy Relations with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, died Oct. 18.

• Obituary: Santos Rodriguez

  10/19/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Santos Rodriguez, a pastor and a mentor to other ministers, died Oct. 15. He was 68.

• Obituary: Nathan J. Porter

  10/10/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Nathan Johnson Porter of Waco, former home missionary, pastor and advocate for the poor, died Oct. 3. He was 90.

• Obituary: Robert G. Russell

  09/28/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Robert “Bob” Glynn Russell, longtime coordinator of technical services for the Baptist General Convention of Texas, died September 21 in hospice care in Dallas. He was 91.

• Former Baylor President Ken Starr dies at 76

  09/13/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

  Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the Clinton administration Whitewater investigation who later became president and chancellor of Baylor University, died Sept. 13 at age 76.