 April 7, 1999
Texas Tidbits
___ Lodging available. First Baptist Church of Quanah will make its facilities available to any church group in need of overnight accommodations. The church is located on a primary route from Texas to Colorado and New Mexico, on Highway 287. An earlier notice in the
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FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher receieves a framed page from an original 1611 edition of the King James Bible printed in England in a presentation from Houston Baptist University Presi-dent E.D. Hodo. The gift came from a collection of rare leaves from Bible fragments in HBU's Bible in America Museum. That-cher visited Houston to speak at an HBU-sponsored event that raised $555,000 for a special project.
| Standard gave the wrong e-mail address. The correct one is trammell@chipshot.net. Or call the church at (940) 663-5331.
___ Dallas Lee dies. Dallas Lee, 91, retired secretary of language missions with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, died March 29 in Denton. During his time with the BGCT, Lee was involved in launching Texas Baptist River Ministry and the Ethnic Missions Scholarship program. Previously, he had been a district mission secretary for the San Antonio area and was a pastor in Graham, Quanah and Edinburg.
___ Morrow dies. Aurora Lee Hargrove Koon Morrow, emeritus Southern Baptist missionary to China and Hawaii, died March 25. She was 96. Born in New Haven, Conn., Morrow lived in Texas, Europe and China during her childhood. She was a graduate of Baylor University in Waco and George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn.
___ Crane dies. Edith Eleanor Carden Crane, an emeritus Southern Baptist missionary to Mexico, died March 16 at age 83. She and her husband, James, retired in 1981. She was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
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