Jeanette, 79, died today (Feb. 4) when you look at the morning hours in Orlando, Fla.; Kathryn, 100, passed away Thursday, Jan. 31, in Nashville.

Jim Henry ended up being president associated with Southern Baptist Convention from 1994-1996; pastor of First Baptist Church in Orlando from 1977 until their your retirement in 2006, or exactly what he called his “redeployment”; and pastor of Downtown Baptist Church in Orlando from 2015 until recently.

Jeanette Henry ended up being honored by the Southern Baptist Ministers’ spouses Conference throughout the 2002 SBC yearly conference in St. Louis, getting the Willie Turner Dawson Award for “distinct denominational share beyond the neighborhood church.”

In a March 2006 event honoring the 28 years she and Jim served in the beginning Baptist Orlando, an endowment in her own title ended up being established to aid pastors’ wives in going to the Florida Baptist State Convention’s yearly meeting.

Henry, inside the 2006 your retirement from First Baptist Orlando, cited two reasons. One, he wished to save money time with Jeanette that has faced health issues in the last few years.

“she actually is been a trooper that is great. I would like to offer her just just just what she therefore richly deserves,” Henry said.

Two, Henry stated he did not like to remain during the church “until I happened to be therefore exhausted and spent that we had nothing kept to provide back once again to the following generation of leadership.”

Steve Smith, who served as First Baptist’s communications pastor from 1994-2007, stated Jeanette Henry had been “one of the most extremely gracious women i have known, and she possessed a fantastic love of life. Though a consummate southern lady from Kentucky, she had been also a ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ individual. She did not mince terms. She enjoyed and supported Jim’s ministry as a passionate mother and wife for their young ones and grandchildren.”

Smith, now communications minister during the Brentwood that is nashville-area Baptist, recounted “the privilege of producing a video clip of Jim’s and Jeanette’s life tale included in Jim’s ‘redeployment’ from First Baptist Orlando. That experience offered me personally a look that is intimate their everyday lives and their loved ones. Their devotion one to the other through the tougher times plus in the very best of times had been therefore evident.

“That video clip task additionally included planing a trip to Nashville to interview Jim’s valuable mom, Kathryn,” Smith stated. “At the period, she could have been about 87 years of age and had been nevertheless residing alone inside her own house, maybe perhaps not not even close to the Opryland resort where she had worked in a retail store well into her eighties. It absolutely was obvious where Jim Henry had gotten his genes that are good while he, now in the 80s, is a photo of health and vigor.”

Along with her spouse, Jeanette Henry is survived by three kids, Kate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWV6p1LZG0U Campbell, Betsy de Armas and Jim; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Kathryn Henry, based on a household obituary, had been an indigenous of Robertson County, Tenn., whom accepted Jesus as her individual Savior at age 9 “and had the initial joy to be baptized along with her daddy” at Hopewell Baptist Church.

In church, she worked in Sunday class with pupils and had been a church assistant to start with Baptist in Nashville and Eastland and Dalewood Baptist churches.

The funeral solution for Jeanette Henry are going to be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, into the worship center of First Baptist Orlando, accompanied by a reception. Visitation would be from 6-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, to start with Baptist’s Henry Chapel.

The family has requested gifts to the First Academy student scholarship fund at First Baptist; the Jeanette Henry Ministers Wives Endowment Fund care of the First Orlando Foundation; and the Henry-Sturgeon Presidential Scholarship at Gateway Seminary in Ontario, Calif in lieu of flowers.

The funeral solution for Kathryn Henry will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, to start with Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tenn. Visitation will soon be from 6-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville.

Instead of plants memorial gift ideas for Kathryn Henry is designed to the Henry-Sturgeon Presidential Scholarship at Gateway Seminary while the missions ministry in the beginning Baptist Church in Hendersonville.