W. A. Whitten

Willie Amzie Whitten, Jr., was born on August 14, 1929, in a small rural community in Choctaw County, Mississippi . His formal education began at Weir High School, from which he graduated in 1946 . He attended Mississippi College during the 1946-1947 academic year and served in the United States Army in 1947 . Whitten married Anna Lucille Stinnett from Addison, Kentucky, on June 6, 1948 . They enrolled in Mississippi College together in September, 1948, and graduated in June, 1951 . Thereafter, Willie attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and received a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1954 .

From 1956 to 1963, Whitten served as associate director of the Seminary Extension Department of the Southern Baptist Convention . His main duties were establishing and operating adult religious education learning centers in Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas . Other duties included curriculum development and the preparation of course-writing guides.

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