Lloyd Householder,


a past assistant vice president for the Office of Communications of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (now LifeWay Christian Resources), and a former member of the Communications Committee of the Baptist World Alliance, died on January 30. He was 82 years old. Householder was named director of the Sunday School


Board’s Office of Communications in 1977 before being promoted to assistant vice president in 1987. He served as president of both the Religion Communicators Council and the Baptist Communicators Association and held membership in the Public Relations Society of America, among other professional public relations organizations. He earned degrees from Carson-Newman College in


Jefferson City, Tennessee, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to being a member of the BWA Communications Householder


Committee, Ashley. served on the Congress Program


Committee that helped plan the 1995 Baptist World Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He leaves wife, Rose Marie, son, Thom, and daughter,


A. H. Jeffree James,


president of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa (BUSA) from 1971-1972, has died. Born in England in 1915, James served with the Protestant


Truth Society in that country before migrating to South Africa in 1945, continuing his work with the Protestant Association of South Africa. In addition to being president of the BUSA, James served


on its National Executive Committee for many years. He played a key role in the promotion of Baptist ministry within the Western Province Baptist Association, including the development of the Cape Town Baptist Seminary in its formative years. He helped to found Pinelands Baptist Church and other Baptist congregations. A former chairman of the Bible Institute of South Africa,


James also was instrumental in the formation of the Cornerstone Christian College, formerly known as the Cape Evangelical Bible Institute, and of George Whitfield College. James opened a Christian bookshop in the heart of Cape


Town and developed a partnership with InterVarsity Press which included printing locally and co-publishing several titles. He authored the book, A century of witness against racial discrimination and social injustice: Resolutions of the Baptist Union of South Africa 1895-1987. He was predeceased by wife, Irene, in 1989, and leaves sons, Ivan, Hugh and Martin.


William Isbell, Jr.,


a former director of the Baptist World Alliance Men’s Department, died on October 4, 2011, in Bessemer, Alabama, in the United States. He was 89 years old. Isbell, a veterinarian, served Baptist men in various capacities


over the years, including as secretary of the Baptist Brotherhood of the Alabama Baptist Convention for 13 years, during which time he developed the Royal Ambassadors Boys’ Camp at Shocco Springs; as director of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Brotherhood department from 1968-1977; and as an executive of Texas Baptist Men, where he was instrumental in building a hospitality house for prisoners’ families to use during visits to Huntsville, location for the headquarters of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Isbell was BWA Men’s Department Director from 1987-


1991. During this time a Baptist Men’s Manual for Baptist men’s groups around the world was published. He is survived by his wife, Marynel; son, William III; and


daughter, Marcia Faye.


Funeral services were held on October 7 at Hunter Street Baptist Church and October 8 at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Auburn, Alabama.


Lewis May,


a former president and general secretary of the Seventh Day Baptist (SDB) General Conference, died on October 4, 2011, in Arcadia, California, in the United States. He was 82 years old. May, a former member of the General Council of the Baptist


World Alliance, was a physician who, among other appointments, was chief of staff of the Methodist Hospital in Arcadia. He previously served as a flight surgeon in the US Air Force from 1954-1956 and worked in his own private practice for more than 50 years. Active in his community, he was a member of the board of the Arcadia School District from 1971-1983. He was elected president of the SDB General Conference in 1967 and served that body as its part time executive secretary from 1999-2003. May earned his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He leaves wife, Nancy, and sons, Charles, Cass, Matthew,


and Pete.


Funeral services were held October 22 at the Riverside SDB Church in California.


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