Hal H. Eaton

Hal H. Eaton has been a Baptist preacher for more than 65 years. Raised in Kansas City, Missouri, he attended Southwest Baptist University and William Jewell College, then attended Central Baptist Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas. He was pastor of three small churches in Missouri before becoming a Navy chaplain. He served during the Korean War on destroyers, in the 1954 H-Bomb tests, and with the Marine Corps during the Vietnam conflict. Upon his retirement from the Navy, he became the chaplain and religion teacher at Oak Hill Academy and the pastor of Young's Chapel Baptist Church adjacent to the campus in the tiny Appalachian town of Mouth of Wilson, VA, where he served for 21 years. He has had the opportunity (and continues) to talk theology with people of nearly every background and belief system. He and his wife of 67 years have 5 children, 13 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. Hal and Marjorie continue to live in the home they built "in the woods" at Mouth of Wilson, maintaining close ties to Oak HIll and Young's Chapel.

It's a great life, for which they are eternally grateful.