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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: By Word & Example
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July 29, 1924 – August 12, 2016 by Rosalie Fonda, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Durham, NC, 2015 Joyce Wasdell was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, to Mary Elizabeth Garber Funkhouser and Ozais Tiffany Funkhouser. She received her undergraduate degree form Madison State Teacher’s College in Harrisonburg, and earned her Masters in Teaching from Duke University, where…
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June 17, 1922 – May 12, 2012 by Robert S. (Robbie) Millns, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, North Carolina, 2016 Jane Kinnison Millns was born in Canton, Ohio, to James Edgar and Kathryne Herbert Kinnison. Educated in the public school system, Jane graduated from Ohio University in 1944 with Bachelor in Science in Economics. She…
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b. November 27, 1934 by David Curtis Skaggs, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Typical of many of Christ Church members, Betty Cheek Clarke is part of the influx of retirees who have migrated to New Bern in the past third of a century. On the other hand, she has Cheek family ancestors who…
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b. March 8, 1946 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Alice Graham Underhill has been a member of Christ Episcopal Church since August 1978, when she and her husband, Dr. T. Reed Underhill, moved to New Bern with their three children. Reed was joining the New Bern Urology…
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December 5, 1928 – August 26, 2012 by Mary Faircloth Stowe, Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC, 2016 Anne Euretta Doar Stowe was born in Florence, South Carolina. She grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she was a member of The Church of the Good Shepherd. She was active in youth groups and…
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b. December 18, 1927 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Harriet Louise Gilbert Milde was born in Oneonta, New York. She graduated from Oneonta High School and attended the Wilson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Johnson City, New York. She received her BS and MS in Nursing…
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May 16, 1913 – January 18, 2004 by Episcopal Church Women, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Hamlet, NC, 2016 Mary Tarry Porter was born in Vance County, North Carolina, to parents, Albin Rawlins Tarry and Mary Alston Tarry. As a young child Mary had polio. Her parents bought her a pony to ride, so she could…
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b. 1943 by the Rev. Paul Canady, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 “When I heard the rector quote Scripture, saying ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart,’ I was riveted by those words, and I knew that I had never put God first in my life,” says Jane Merritt. That was…
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by Ellen C. Weig, Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, NC, 2012 Miss Rebecca Hill was the Treasurer of the Ladies Sewing Society (LSS) of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Hillsborough in 1866 and for many years. The daughter of Thomas Blount Hill and Maria T. Simpson she had been confirmed at St Mary’s School in…
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b. February 25, 1929 by Ann Victoria Harris Bustard, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Barbara was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona. A cradle Episcopalian, Barbara was baptized at Grand Canyon Village by the Bishop of St. Louis, William Scarlett. At age thirteen, Barbara attended Wasatch Academy,…