Donnie Gene Wiltshire, a Baptist pastor and leader who spent more than five decades ministering to the Deaf community, died Wednesday, Oct. 21, after more than a year of battling brain cancer. He was 73.
Wiltshire, who lived in Jasper, Texas, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in the late summer of 2025.
From 1999 to 2019, Wiltshire served as senior consultant for special ministries with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, where he oversaw ministries to Deaf and blind people, those with developmental disabilities, and people learning English. Before joining the N.C. Baptist convention, he pastored churches in Tennessee and Louisiana. After retiring in 2019, he returned to his native Texas, where he became interim pastor and later pastor of First Baptist Church of Jasper.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Chad Austin and originally published by the Biblical Recorder.
