Obituaries

Retired pastor Raymond D. Watt Jr. died April 19 at the East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. He was 74.

At 6 feet and about 170 pounds, Pastor Bill Olvey’s physical stature was average. But to those he served, he

Longtime Alabama pastor and educator John Harvey Thomas Jr. died March 30. He was 83. After graduating from Auburn University

Felicia Lacy, wife of Steve Lacy, pastor of The Brook Church, Madison, in Madison Baptist Association, died April 1. She

Retired missionary and Alabama pastor Loyd Moon died March 28. He was 83. A graduate of Howard College (now Samford

Lolla Catherine Wurtele Wright, widow of the late Samford University president Leslie S. Wright, died March 16 in Birmingham. She

Longtime Alabama minister William Arthur Carter died Feb. 20 in Columbiana. He was 79. Carter was a full-time minister for

Retired Alabama Baptist pastor James David Kelly died Jan. 14. He was 79. Kelly, a Greenville native and Mobile resident,