Obituaries: Don McGregor, Roger Duck

Don McGregor, 91, June 30 in Mesquite. McGregor, editor of the Baptist Record in Mississippi from 1976 until his retirement in 1990, was a founder of Associated Baptist Press—now Baptist News Global—and served as the news service’s first executive director. Don McGregorHe previously was president of the Southern Baptist Press Association and chairman of the public relations advisory committee that related to the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. A World War II prisoner of war, he weighed less than 100 pounds when he reached the American lines after V-E Day. After his military service, he returned to Baylor University. His journalism career was launched in 1948 with the Reporter-Telegram in Midland, and later he was an editorial associate at the Baptist Standard. After four years at the Dallas Times Herald, he returned to the Baptist Standard, leaving the associate editor’s post after 15 years to become editor of the California Southern Baptist in 1971. In 1976, he made the move to Mississippi. He was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Carlene. Survivors include his three children, Alice Tyrone, Bob McGregor and Wayne McGregor and his wife, Kayla; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. 

Roger Duck, 87, May 16 in Austin. A graduate of Hardin-Simmons University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he was pastor of Roger DuckHamby Baptist Church in Abilene and First Baptist Church in Cranfills Gap before serving 18 years as a missionary with the Southern Baptist Convention Foreign Mission Board. In 1975, he moved to Houston and served as a marriage and family counselor until his retirement in 2010. He was a member of Tallowood Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Lavonia; sons, Roger and Charles; daughter, Karen; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.