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Former Alabama Baptist Convention presidents, Rev. Dewey Corder 80, (L) and the Rev. Harper Shannon, 89 (R). | Alabama Baptist Convention
The Alabama Baptist Convention recently lost two former presidents just days apart to complications from the new coronavirus and dementia. The Rev. Harper Shannon was 89 when he passed from progressive dementia Wednesday while the Rev. Dewey Corder was 80 when he died from COVID-19 on Christmas Day.
Rick Lance, state missionary and executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions remembered both men in a statement Thursday.
“Dewey Corder was a true gentleman. He was one of the most cheerful men I have known. Every time I talked to him, he was upbeat as he talked about how the Lord was blessing him and his ministry,” Lance wrote of Corder.
Michael “Mike” Stancil, 49, was pastor of Fulton Bridge Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ala. He died on Dec. 26, 2020 from COVID-19. | Facebook/Fulton Bridge Baptist Church
An Alabama pastor, who urged his congregants to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded in March, is now being mourned by his family and church after he died from the virus Saturday.
Pastor Michael “Mike” Stancil of Fulton Bridge Baptist Church in Hamilton was 49 when he died after a six-week battle with the new coronavirus, TAB Media reported.
And the loss was palpable as Gary Mixon, chairman of the church’s deacon board, talked about Stancil’s passing during an online service on Sunday.