Obituaries: Stanley Stamps and Daniel Williams

Obituaries for Stanley D. Stamps and Daniel Lee Williams.

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Stanley D. Stamps, 83, a retired missionary to South America, died April 10. He was born in Prentiss, Miss., and graduated from Mississippi College. He also earned a master of divinity degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, Calif. There, he met and fell in love with Glenna Morgan of Hillsboro, where they were married in 1955. As a collegiate and seminary summer missionary, he was a counselor and leader in boys’ camps in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and California. He later was a music, youth and education minister in California and pastor of churches in California and Mississippi and associational director of missions in Mississippi. From 1962 to 1996, the Stampses were Southern Baptist missionaries, serving in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Honduras. They returned to Hillsboro in 1996 and officially retired in 1997. He is survived by his wife of more than 60 years; sons, Keith and Mark; daughter, Rhonda Cole; four grandchildren, Timothy Stamps, Angela Stamps, Clint Cole and Sarah Cole; and three great-grandchildren, Sahara, Tristan and Silas Stamps.

Daniel Lee Williams, 62, died April 28 in San Marcos after a battle with cancer. Williams was born Aug. 20, 1953, in Fort Worth. His pastoral ministry spanned 38 years and included Southland Baptist Church in San Angelo, along with other congregations in Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Kentucky and Hong Kong. He served five years as president of the Baptist Laity Institute. After graduating from Abilene High School in 1971, he earned an undergraduate degree from Baylor University and master of divinity and doctor of philosophy degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. He was a world traveler, loved to write and play guitar, and was a skilled craftsman and oil painter. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Anita, and their three children, Clayton Williams, Anna Broome and Nathan Williams. He also is survived by his father, Bill M. Williams; sisters, Donna McCartney of Merkel and Debbie Steele of Abilene; and brothers, David Williams of Austin and Daryl Williams of Abilene.


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