
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 21, 1991                   TAG: 9104210166
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C7   EDITION: METRO 
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LYNN DICKERSON, FORMER PASTOR, DIES AT AGE 95

Dr. Lynn C. Dickerson, former pastor of Baptist churches in Roanoke, Pulaski, Radford and Harrisonburg, died Friday.

Dickerson, a Henrico County resident, was 95.

A native of Charlotte County, Dickerson was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Pulaski from 1918-22, the First Baptist Church in Radford from 1922-34 and the Harrisonburg Baptist Church from 1938-60. He was interim pastor of Grandin Court Baptist Church from 1960-61.

He also was pastor of the Greenbrier Baptist Church in Alderson, W.Va., and chaplain of the Federal Prison for Women in Alderson from 1934-38.

Dickerson was a graduate and trustee emeritus of the University of Richmond. The university conferred upon him an honorary doctor of divinity degree in 1954.

Dickerson also was a member of the board of the General Baptist Association of Virginia and in 1944-45 was district governor of Rotary clubs for the district extending from Winchester to Greeneville, Tenn.

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