Background
Odle, Joe Taft was born on August 19, 1908 in West Frankfort, Illinois, United States. Son of Harry Logan and Winona (Dillon) Odle.
Odle, Joe Taft was born on August 19, 1908 in West Frankfort, Illinois, United States. Son of Harry Logan and Winona (Dillon) Odle.
Bachelor of Arts, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1930. Student Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1935. Doctor of Divinity, Mississippi College, 1949.
Ordained to ministry Baptist Church, 1925. Pastor Baptist Church Orient, Illinois, 1926, Baptist churches, Rossville and Gallaway, Tennessee, 1928-1929, Barlow, Bandana, Kentucky Bapt churches, 1930-1932. Pastor East Baptist Church, Paducah, Kentucky, 1932-1943, First Baptist Church, Crystal Springs, Mississippi, 1943-1947, First Baptist Church, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1947-1956.
Associate executive secretary Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, Jackson, 1956-1959.
Editor The Baptist Record, Jackson, 1959-1976. Vice president Mississippi Baptist Convention, 1954.
Member annuity board Southern Baptist Convention, 1949-1956. Member Baptist joint committee public affairs, Washington, 1963-1969.
Named Kentucky colonel, 1961.
Citations Broadman Press, Nashville, 1976, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1976, Mississippi College, 1976.
Member Evangelical, Southern Baptist (president 1971) press associations, Associate Church Press (honorary life). Clubs: Kiwanis, Lions, Civitan, Rotary.
Married Clara Mabel Riley, July 17, 1930. Children: Joe Thomas, Sarah Ann Odle Maddox.