Historical March 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The Rev. Dr. Max W. Morgan, senior pastor of the Delmar Baptist Church, died of a heart attack on February 8, 1980.
Dr. Morgan was a native of Downing, Mo. and graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. and then from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
He came to the Delmar Church in 1972 after pastorates in eight other cities.
Dr. Morgan was an active proponent of the ecumenical movement and in 1977 he was elected chairman of the Interfaith Clergy Council of Greater St. Louis.
Dr. Morgan was president of the Christian Civic Foundation, chaired the personnel committee of the Great Rivers Region American Baptist Churches, served on the boards of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kan., Central Baptist Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri Baptist Hospital and the hospital’s Pacesetter fund drive.
In the Skinker-DeBaliviere community
Dr. Morgan will be particularly remembered for his efforts to maintain the church at its present location and for enlarging the role of the church in the neighborhood.
On behalf of the neighborhood, The Paper extends sincere condolences to his wife, Betty, and to the Delmar Baptist congregation and recognizes the loss to our community.
Originally published in The Paper, March 1980.
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