Richard Alan “Ricky” Coburn, pastor of Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Plantersville, was killed early Oct. 19 in a motorcycle crash. He was 53. Coburn grew
Sammy Brister, former Alabama Baptist pastor, died Sept. 10. He was 66. Brister, a native of Brookhaven, Miss., attended Clarke Memorial College in Newton, Miss.,
William W. “Bill” Causey Sr., longtime Mississippi Baptist pastor and retired executive director-treasurer of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, died Sept. 6. He was 81.