Pastors of First Baptist Church LaBelle

As we prepare for our 100th Anniversary, we have been searching for all the Pastors who have served at First Baptist Church LaBelle. This past Wednesday we publish a list of Pastors as we knew it at that time. With the help of the Florida Baptist Historical Society we now have a more complete list of names.

C.B. Glaize – 1912 – 1913
J.N.A. Downey – 1914
F.W. Nolte -1919
O.O. Roberts - 1920
C.E. Hendry – 1921
E.L. Williams – 1922
W.D.M. Hays – 1923 -1925
W. Barnes – 1926
W.T. Dennington – 1927 – 1928
Gus Padget – 1930 -1932
DC Mountford – 1933 - 1934
A.M. Glisson – 1936 - 1944
C.B. Althoff – 1945 -1946
E.A.Burnett - 1948 - 1950
Hugh H. Walters – 1951 -1953
J. Roy Crosby – 1954 – 1956
Ewell Sexton – 1958 - 1960
Reeves C. Dean – 1961 -1963
S.F. Beard (Interim) - 1964
M. Glenn Smith – 1965 - 1969
Benny Baker - 1970
W. Floyd Yarbrough – 1971
Richard E. Whipple - 1972
Eugene Abernathy – 1973 - 1985
Roger Bradley, Interim
Frank Claycomb - 1988
Bill Kaufman - 1989
Roger Bradley, Interim
Jim Daniels – 1990-1994
Bob Rowe, Interim
Frank Deerey, Jr. – 1995 to present