F.B. Huey Jr., longtime seminary professor and former missionary, died April 7. He was 100. He was born in Denton on Jan. 12, 1925, and attended the University of North Texas before graduating from the University of Texas in Austin. He worked in a family-owned business in Denton for 10 years before entering the ministry in 1955. While a seminary student, he served as pastor of churches in Bolivar and Denton. After graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with the Master of Divinity and Ph.D. degrees, he and his family served as Southern Baptist missionaries in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1961 to 1965, where he was professor of Old Testament at the South Brazil Baptist Theological Seminary. From 1965 until his retirement in 1990, he was professor of Old Testament at Southwestern Seminary. He served as editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology from 1975 to 1978, was associate dean for the Ph.D. degree from 1985 to 1990, and served as interim pastor of 27 churches. He also was guest professor at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, in 1970-71, and at the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in 1996. After his retirement, he continued as adjunct professor of Old Testament at Southwestern Seminary and as pastor of the Rush Creek Baptist Church in Arlington. He was the author of eight books, four of which were translated into Chinese. He served as one of the translators for the New American Standard Bible, the New International Version and the International Children’s Bible. He contributed numerous articles to scholarly and popular religious publications, Bible commentaries, theological dictionaries and encyclopedias. He was named as a distinguished alumnus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2001. He was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Nonna Turner Huey; grandson, Jonathan David Huey; and great-granddaughter, Brynlee Anne Bitton. He is survived by his daughter, Mary Anne Lisbona and her husband Alberto; daughter Linda Miller and her husband Darrell; son David Huey and his wife Debbie; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at Travis Avenue Baptist Church, where he was a member, at 11 a.m. on April 15. The family will receive friends beginning at 10 a.m. prior to the memorial service.
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