Dr. F.B. Huey Jr.

1925 - 2025

Dr. F.B. Huey Jr.

January 12, 1925 - April 7, 2025

Fort Worth, Texas - Dr. F.B. Huey Jr., Emeritus Associate Dean for the Ph.D. Degree and Professor of Old Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died April 7, 2025, in a local hospital. He was 100 years old.

Funeral services will be held at Travis Avenue Baptist Church, where he was a member, at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2025, with Elder Jim Smith officiating. Burial will take place in the Roselawn Memorial Park in Denton. The family will receive friends for his visitation beginning at 10:00 a.m. prior to his service at Travis Avenue Baptist Church.

Dr. Huey was born in Denton, Texas, on January 12, 1925, and attended the University of North Texas before graduating from the University of Texas in Austin with a B.B.A. degree, and was in a family-owned business in Denton for ten years before entering the ministry in 1955. While a seminary student, he served as pastor of churches in Bolivar in Denton County and in the City of Denton. After graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with the M. Div. and Ph.D. degrees, he and his family served as missionaries of the Southern Baptist Convention in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961-1965, where he was Professor of Old Testament at the South Brazil Baptist Theological Seminary. From 1965 to his retirement in 1990, he served as professor of Old Testament at Southwestern Seminary, editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology, 1975-1978, as Associate Dean for the Ph.D. degree, 1985-1990, and as interim pastor of 27 churches. He also served as guest professor at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, 1970-1971, and at the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary, 1996. After his retirement, he continued as adjunct professor of Old Testament at Southwestern Seminary, 1990-1995, and as pastor of the Rush Creek Baptist Church in Arlington, 1990-1993.

Dr. Huey did additional studying at Cambridge University in England, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Texas at Arlington, He was the author of eight books, four of which were translated into Chinese. He served as one of the translators for the New American Standard Bible, the New International Version, and the International Children's Bible. He contributed numerous articles to scholarly and popular religious publications, Bible commentaries, theological dictionaries, and encyclopedias.

He was a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, Southwestern Association of Baptist Teachers of Religion, National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Beta Gamina Sigma, and Delta Sigma Pi. He has been included in Who's Who in Texas, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in Religion, Who's Who in America, and International Who's Who in Education. He was named as a Distinguished Alumnus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2001.

Dr. Huey was preceded in death by his parents, F. B. and Gwendolyn Huey, Sr.; his wife of 62 years, Nonna Turner Huey; grandson, Jonathan David Huey; and great-granddaughter, Brynlee Anne Bitton.

He is survived by his daughter, Mary Anne and son-in-law, Alberto Lisbona; daughter, Linda and son-in-law, Darrell Miller; son, David and daughter-in-law, Debbie Huey; five grandchildren, Amanda and her husband, Jason Lingle, Michael and his wife, Angela Miller, Sara and her husband, Cameron Bitton, Michelle Miller, and Rebecca Huey; five great-grandchildren, Riley Paige Miller, Judah Bradley Miller, Addison Louise Miller, Dylan Cole Lingle, Bradyn Dexter Disman, and Parker Cameron Bitton; and a number of extended family.