RICHMOND (BP) — The International Mission Board's oldest emeritus missionary, Howard McCamey, was honored in a memorial service in Dallas Dec. 5. He died Nov. 26 at age 102.
Longtime members of Gaston Avenue Baptist Church in Dallas, Howard and his late wife, Georgia, were commissioned by the former Foreign Mission Board April 10, 1940 — one day shy of Howard's 34th birthday. Born April 11, 1906, Howard served as a missionary dentist in Nigeria for nearly three decades.
The McCameys' careers as missionaries started when they felt the Lord calling them to work at a hospital in Nigeria. They set sail in 1940, one year after World War II started.