Here are some notable Baptist newsmakers who died during 2010.
— Bill Hogue, 82, former executive director of the California Southern Baptist Convention, Jan. 13.
— Max Lyall, 71, a concert and church pianist who taught for 25 years at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Feb. 18.
— Emmie Cecelia Mears Webb, 8, daughter of Amy Mears, co-pastor of Glendale Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn., killed Ash Wednesday when a deer crashed through the windshield and fatally injured her as she sat between two siblings in the back seat of a sedan driven by her father.
— Fletcher Allen, 78, former editor and associate editor of Baptist state newspapers in South Carolina, Maryland/Delaware and Tennessee, Feb. 27, after a long battle with cancer.
— Tom Logue, 88, who led Baptist Student Union work in Arkansas for more than three decades and in retirement was founding coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas, March 6.
— Nancy Schaefer, 74, a conservative Christian activist and former two-term state senator in Georgia, found dead with her husband March 26 in their north Georgia home in what was described as a murder-suicide.
— David Mueller, 80, longtime theology professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, March 26.
— Michael Spencer, 53, acclaimed "Internet Monk" blogger, April 5, following a four-month battle with cancer.
— Cecil Sherman, 82, one of the most visible moderate leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention controversy of the 1980s and first coordinator of the breakaway Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, April 17, from complications of a heart attack. At a memorial service in Asheville, N.C., attended by hundreds, historian Walter Shurden recalled Sherman as someone who "stood on a higher hill" than his contemporaries.
— Douglas Green, 85, husband of seminary president Molly Marshall, May 23.
— Stephen Carter, 51, a former Baptist camp director awaiting trial on six child-sex charges, of an apparent suicide May 24.
— Andy Lester, 70, a professor of pastoral care and counseling popular with a generation of Baptists who attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1970s and 1980s, June 10, after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.
— Robert Bratcher, 90, the New Testament translator for the Good News Bible, July 11.
— Avery Willis, 76, a former Southern Baptist missionary and administrator best known as developer of the MasterLife discipleship materials used around the world, July 30, nearly eight months after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.
— Clark Pinnock, 73, an influential theologian whose spiritual pilgrimage led him from a fiery fundamentalism as a young professor to an openness that caused some to brand him a heretic, Aug. 15, of a heart attack.
— Warren Hultgren, 89, pastor of First Baptist Church of Tulsa, Okla., from 1957 until 1992, Nov. 14.
— Edgar Cooper, editor of the Florida Baptist Witness from 1971 until 1983, Nov. 14, one day shy of his 92nd birthday.
—Morgan Patterson, 85, a historian who taught at four Southern Baptist seminaries and was president of a Georgetown College, Nov. 19.
Bob Allen is senior writer for Associated Baptist Press.