• Obituary: Rebekah (Becky) Louise Latham

  09/06/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Rebekah (Becky) Louise Latham, missionary supporter and devoted wife to a longtime pastor, died Aug. 30 in Houston. She was 94.

• Obituary: Floyd Allen Craig

  09/05/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Floyd Allen Craig of Franklin, Tenn., who influenced and encouraged an entire generation of Baptist communicators, died Aug. 30 in Nashville. He was 91

• Obituary: Jo Alice “Jody” Darden

  09/04/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Jo Alice “Jody” Darden, a former employee of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Radio & Television Commission, died Aug. 23. She was 95.

• Obituary: Glenn Lanier Ward

  09/03/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Glenn Lanier Ward, longtime Texas Baptist pastor and director of missions, died Aug. 31. He was 78.

• Obituary: Dorothy Louise Welch

  08/23/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Dorothy Louise Welch, longtime educator and faithful church member, died Aug. 14. She was 93.

• Texas Baptist Sunday school leader Bernie Spooner dies

  08/14/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

  Bernie Spooner—considered “Mister Sunday School” to a generation of Texas Baptists—died Aug. 9 in Dallas. He was 89.

• Obituary: Joe Keith

  08/12/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Joseph Francis “Joe” Keith, longtime Texas Baptist church musician and denominational worker, died Aug. 3 in Conroe. He was 83.

• Obituary: Nina Flo Roe

  08/08/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Nina Flo Roe of Cleburne, supportive wife to a pastor and associational director of missions, died Aug. 4. She was 91.

• Obituary: Dennis Brooks Linam

  08/07/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Dennis Brooks Linam, who served more than three decades in various administrative roles at Dallas Baptist University, died Aug. 3 in Arlington. He was 83.

• Obituary: C.C. Risenhoover

  08/07/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Carmel Credille (C.C.) Risenhoover, Baptist pastor, accomplished author and professional communicator, died Aug. 2 in Temple. He was 88.

• Obituary: Steve and Ann Storie

  07/31/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Steven Craig Storie, longtime director of media services at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and his wife Ann Nichols Storie died July 23 from injuries sustained in a head-on collision. He was 68, and she was 65.

• Obituary: Mickey Burleson

  07/30/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Mickey Ruth Fulwiler Burleson, an avid conservationist and supporter of Texas Baptists’ River Ministry who assisted women in the Mexican village of La Caldera by helping market their handmade quilts to buyers in Texas, died July 13. She was 87