David Crawford Stills Jr. was an acclaimed Atlanta organist, educator, and church minister of music.

He served as adjunct professor of organ at Georgia State University, associate organist-choirmaster at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, college organist at Morehouse College and teacher in the Atlanta public school system. Stills was the organist for the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Stills served as organist and director of music for 23 years.

In addition to teaching and performing, Stills worked as a sales associate for Chapel Music Company in Lithonia, Georgia, and consultant for the Schlueter Pipe Organ Co. He also was a dean of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and minister of music at Warren Memorial United Methodist Church.

Stills was born in Atlanta on February 18, 1932. A graduate of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, he was the protege of renowned musicologist, composer and folklorist Willis Laurence James, chair of the music department at Spelman College and director of the Spelman Glee Club. Stills also studied organ with Spelman organ professor Joyce Johnson and Hans Zimmerman of Munich, Germany.

The organist performed throughout the United States and Europe, including concerts at the Washington Cathedral and at Riverside Church in New York. In 1974, the U.S. Department of State sponsored him in a goodwill tour in Germany, France and Italy.

Stills is listed in Notable Americans, Personalities of the South and the Dictionary of International Biography. He died on October 5, 2018.