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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: By Word & Example
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Lynn Hoke Named Distinguished Woman The Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of North Carolina are pleased to announce the selection of Lynn Ramsay Hoke as their “Distinguished Woman” to be honored, along with others from throughout the wider church, on June 25th, during the ECW Triennial Meeting in Louisville, KY. Lynn currently serves as…
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Guidelines for Sharinga “By Word & Example” Sketch Women have always played a significant role in the life of the Episcopal Church. For nearly two hundred years women have devoted their time, energies, and talents to benefit their churches: donating land or money for buildings, raising money by the efforts of their own hands, organizing…
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It is with sadness that we report Mary Gordon, who served as interim and then elected president of the diocesan ECW Board from 2015-2018, passed away on June 7, 2024. Here is a link to her obituary. In her honor, the diocesan ECW Board offers this tribute: A framed version of the tribute resolution was…
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November 22, 1919 – October 11, 2005 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Margaret Mitchell Hay StallingsMargaret Mitchell Hay Stallings was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She was the daughter of Samuel Marion Hay and Mabel Sutherland Mitchell Hay. She was reared in Mount Pleasant, across the Cooper…
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February 9, 1923 – May 6, 2000 by Episcopal Church Women of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Hamlet, NC, 2014 Jean S. Smith was born in Richmond, Virginia. After her marriage to John B. Smith, Jr., Jean moved to Hamlet, North Carolina. Jean and John had two daughters, Gretchen and Gail. While living in Hamlet Jean…
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by Victor William Bustard, M.D., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, North Carolina, 2016 Ann Bustard was born in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, where she attended elementary, middle, and high school. Her family attended Trinity Anglican Church where she was baptized, confirmed and married. After graduation from high school, she continued her education at the University of…
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August 6, 1896 – May 7, 1993 by Nelson McDaniel, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Miss Gertrude Sprague Carraway was born in New Bern, North Carolina, in the same house where she died, yet she was a woman who was always on the move. Born at a time when women in America could…
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January 26, 1910 – August 4, 2005 By Julia White Nolan & Irma Crowell, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Hamlet, NC, 2014 Jeanette Godfrey White was a member of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Hamlet, North Carolina, for 65 years, but her early church years were spent at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Florence, South Carolina,…
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b. June 2, 1926 by Ann Victoria Harris Bustard, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Janet Josephine Latham was born in New Bern to Dr. Joseph and Mrs. Marjorie Latham. The Lathams raised four children with Janet being the third child. The family lived in a large brick home on National Avenue along with many…
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b. January 31, 1937 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Soon after Rosemary moved to New Bern in late 1991, Bishop Sid Sanders of the Diocese of East Carolina called her to establish a diocesan refugee ministry, because she had chaired one in Connecticut. He appointed a Board of…