Carl F. Whirley, retired Southern Baptist missionary to Nigeria, died Jan. 8 in Florence after an extended illness. Whirley, 85, was born July 28, 1914, in Southport, Fla., and grew up in Bagdad, Fla. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Howard College, now Samford University in Birmingham in 1943. He eared his master of theology from Southern Seminary…