Family
A native Texan, Dilday grew up in a Texas Baptist minister's home. His father, Hooper Dilday, served served a number of Texas churches, and was on the staff of the Baptist General Convention of Texas for 20 years years in Sunday school, discipleship training and church services, and was longtime minister of education at First Church in Wichita Falls. His mother Opal Spillers Dilday was born in Memphis, Texas, and was a children's educational specialist in Baptist churches in Amarillo, Port Arthur, Port Neches, Wichita Falls and Dallas.
Dilday's wife, Betty Doyen Dilday, a native of Houston, Texas, holds degrees from Baylor University and B.H. Carroll Theological Institute. A public school teacher, Bible lecturer, conference speaker, and author, she was recognized as the 2011 Woman of Distinction by the Baylor University Dallas Woman's Council.
The Dildays maintained a Baptist ministers' family that has succeeded to the following generation. Dilday and his wife, Betty, are parents of three children: son Robert is managing editor of the Religious Herald, the Virginia Baptist newspaper; daughter Nancy Dilday Duck is a fifth grade public school teacher in Allen, Texas, where she lives with her husband, pastor and businessman, Nolan Duck; and daughter Ellen Dilday Garrett is Director of Children & Family Ministries at Brentwood Methodist Church, near Nashville, Tenn., where her husband, Shannon, is Coordinator of Worship & the Arts.
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