RETIRED PASTOR, DOM DIES

RAVENNA — James Franklin Smith, 87, died March 8, 2023. He was retired director of missions of the Enterprise Baptist Association and Boone’s Creek Association. In 1999, he was named Director of Missions for the Year by the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He pastored Heidelberg Baptist Church, Stone Coal Baptist Church, Friendship Baptist Church and Nada Baptist Mission and also taught school in Wolfe and Lee counties and was a substitute teacher in Estill County.