CHARLIE R. BAXLEY

Our Love and prayers reach out to you the family at this time. Charlie Ray's was a role model. Always looked forward to his visits to the old home place and the Preston reunion. He was such a delight to around. We are sadden but yet rejoice that he is in Heaven.

Charlie was a dear friend to my husband, Jack Burns and myself(Shirley Burns), from the time he started as music director at Southwest Baptist Church almost 25 years ago. He served as music director two different times for four years each. We shared many a meal with Charlie, Jennie Ve and Nan Jones, sharing our faith and beliefs and many laughs along the way. Charlie was a very positive person, very friendly and very caring, a hard and diligent worker in the Lord's work. Even in retirement...

Rita and I offer our sympathy to the family and celebrate Charlie Ray's life which touched us often. My family lived with his when he was in high school. He was a youth of integrity, faith, and responsibility at home and school. He played basketball and drove a school bus! Our paths crossed again during seminary where I enjoyed the Baxley family and followed Charlie Ray as music director, Hilltop Baptist, Weatherford, Texas. Later traveling from Japan we visited in San Diego twice. After...