• Obituary: David Blanton

  David Arlen Blanton, longtime minister of music, died March 21. He was 83.

• Obituary: Mark Chew

  Mark Rogers Chew, pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Denton five decades, died April 6. He was 76.

• Obituary: Charlie Elliott

  Charles Edwin “Charlie” Elliott of Brady, former youth minister at First Baptist Church in Midland, died Jan. 19. He was 77

• Obituary: David Shuttlesworth

  David Shuttlesworth of Waco, longtime Texas Baptist minister, died April 20. He was 82.

• Obituary: Barbara Gage

  Barbara Gage, a wife and mother to evangelists and partner in their ministries, died April 10 in Houston. She was 82.

• Obituary: Betty Ross Priesler Kelley

  Betty Ross Priesler Kelley of Wharton, who served Texas Baptists in a variety of volunteer capacities, died March 3. She was 86.

• Obituary: Ted Cromer

  Ted Cromer, retired Baptist missionary and minister, died March 1 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was 93.

• Obituary: Dick Moody

  Richard “Dick” Moody, retired minister and artist, died Feb. 27 in Southlake. He was 87.

• Obituary: Ray Rust

  Ray P. Rust, former Baptist college president and denominational executive, died Feb. 2 in Richardson. He was 92.

• Obituary: Bennie Joe Camp

  Bennie Joe Camp, a deacon and longtime Bible study teacher at First Baptist Church in Bryan, died Feb. 19 in College Station. He was 90.

• Obituary: Joe Neil Smith

  Joe Neil Smith of McKinney, retired Texas Baptist bivocational pastor, died Feb. 15. He was 80.

• Obituary: Ron Ellison

  Ron Ellison, a Texas Baptist historian, died Feb. 9 in Vidor after a lengthy illness. He was 85.