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DEATHS
T. T. Crabtree (‘49, ‘53, ‘74) on
Sept. 18, 2007. He pastored
several churches in Kentucky,
Tennessee and Oklahoma before
spending 19 years at FBC Springfield,
Mo. He served on Southern
Seminary’s board of trustees from 1959-1983
including a term as chairman.
Wilson Alvis Herring died April 22. He was the
founding superintendent of Sunny Crest Children’s
Home in Bakersfield, Calif.
1940s
Olivia Stephenson Lennon (’45) wife of John
Lennon (’48) died June 6. Dr. E. Lowell Adams’
(’45) wife died Feb. 2.
1950s
William Travis Bassett’s (’51) wife, Eva, died
Aug. 25, 2006. The Bassetts were married
for 54 years. Rev. H. Grady Jarrard, Jr. (’53)
died July 3, 2005. Capt. Joseph G. Lerner
(’54) died May 2, 2007 at the age of 91 after
a major stroke. He had been living in
Maple wood, NJ for seven years. Donations
may be made in memory of Joe Lerner by
making a tax-deductible gift to: The Joseph
G. Lerner Memorial Visitation Ministry, c /o
Morrow Memorial Church, 600 Ridgewood
Road, Maplewood, New Jersey 07040. James
A. Cates’ (’55) wife, Olivia, died Feb. 18.
Mervin A. Brown, Jr. (’56) died April 19.
V. William Tanyas (’58) died Jan. 9.
1960s
Monte “Tommy” Starkes (’64) died May 19 at
the age of 67 in Las Vegas, Nev. James F. Walters
(’64) died May 22 of a brain tumor. He
was the retired pastor of First Baptist Church
Mobile, Ala.
1970s
Eddie Ashmoore (’70) died June 18 at the age
of 64. Mr. Ashmoore was an employee at
Southern Seminary for 18 years.
CORRECTION:
Paul S. Carter (’50) died on Oct. 4, 2006 at
the age of 85. He pastored several churches
in the Baptist General Association of
Virginia during his ministry of 35 years.
Upon retirement he also served as interim
pastor of churches within the association.
Southern alum
becomes
college president
David Olive, a 1993 master of divinity graduate,
became the President of Bluefield College in Bluefield,
Va., July 1.
Olive served previously as an executive vice president
and chief operating officer at Pfeiffer University in Charlotte,
N.C. He is also an attorney and a licensed minister
who served as an interim and associate pastor at First
Baptist Church in Georgetown, Ky.
“The educational opportunities I had at Southern
certainly helped shape my ministry and my theological
underpinnings,” Olive said.
Army Chief
of Chaplains a
Southern alum
Douglas L. Carver was promoted to Major General during
ceremonies at Fort Myer, Va., on July 12. He is the
first Southern Baptist to hold the position of chief of
chaplains since Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Ivan L. Bennett
held the post in 1954.
“The Scripture talks about how God is the One who
raises up leadership,” Carver said. “For such a time as
this, it has appeared that God has raised me up as a
Southern Baptist chaplain to provide spiritual leadership
for our chaplains in the Army.”
Carver earned an M. Div. degree from Southern
Seminary.
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