• Obituary: Gloria Veals

  08/23/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Glorioustean “Gloria” Veals, the “first lady” of City Church in Tulia, died Aug. 18. She was 74.

• Obituary: Faye Jennings Henthorn

  08/23/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Faye Jennings Henthorn, a lifelong Tulia resident who served First Baptist Church there more than four decades as church secretary, died Aug. 13 in Lubbock. She was 91.

• Obituary: Dean Nolan Finley

  08/22/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Dean Nolan Finley, a national Southern Baptist leader in youth evangelism more than three decades, died July 27 after an extended battle with Parkinson’s. He was 71.

• Obituary: Taylor Rankin

  08/15/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Taylor Rankin, longtime faculty member at Hardin-Simmons University, died Aug. 11 in Abilene. He was 89.

• Obituary: Shirley Ann Fannin

  07/11/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Shirley Ann Fannin, former kindergarten teacher and equipper for Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas, died June 22 in Dickinson. She was 86

• Obituary: Wilma Alice Gemmell Kidd

  06/26/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Wilma Alice Gemmell Kidd, former Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil, died June 24 in Robert Lee. She was 101.

• Russell Dilday, Baptist statesman, dead at 92

  06/21/2023 - By Scott Collins and Russ Dilday

  Russell H. Dilday, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth during its greatest period of growth, died June 21. He was 92.

• Obituary: Rodney Roy DeLoach

  06/14/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Rodney Roy DeLoach, a longtime Baptist pastor and chaplain, died March 28 in Tyler. He was 100.

• Obituary: Robert Dee Longshore

  06/12/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Robert Dee “Bob” Longshore, Texas Baptist pastor and development officer, died June 10 in Mesquite. He was 100.

• Interfaith leader, Baptist pastor Welton Gaddy dies at 81

  06/09/2023 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

  C. Welton Gaddy, a Baptist pastor who became an advocate for interfaith relations and progressive causes, died June 7. He was 81.

• Obituary: Addie Ruth Fox Parker

  06/06/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Addie Ruth Fox Parker—a longtime elementary schoolteacher, civil rights advocate, pastor’s wife and pastor’s mother—died May 30. She was 105.

• Obituary: José Isaac Soria

  05/22/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  José Isaac Soria, a longtime Texas Baptist pastor and public schoolteacher, died May 20. He was 91.