Virginia Baptist treasurer dies

by  Robert O'Brien                                                                                                                                    Vol. XIV, No. 9, October 2001

Nat Kellum, treasurer and director of business management for the Virginia Baptists for 19 years, died Sept. 12 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Ashland, VA. He was 56 years old. Kellum, widely active in Baptist church and denominational life, was an insurance executive in Roanoke for 12 years before joining the Virginia Baptist Mission Board of the Baptist General Association of Virginia in 1982.

A former two-term trustee of the Southern Baptist Foreign (now International) Mission Board, 1982-91, Kellum was chairman of deacons at Cool Springs Baptist Church in Mechanicsville, VA. Kellum, a native of Gloucester, VA, also formerly taught in the Hampton City Schools in Hampton and served as a houseparent for the Virginia Baptist Children’s Home in Salem.

Survivors include his wife, Doris Ann Daughtry Kellum of Ashland; a son, Wendell Kellum of Allentown, PA; a daughter, Andrea Kellum, a student at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg; and a sister, Lucille Warren of Gloucester. [BP]