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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: By Word & Example
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May 11, 1904 – October 16, 2008 by Ellen Chesley Weig, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, N.C. May 18, 2016 She celebrated her 100th birthday with a pig picking, invited everyone from church, and drove herself to the party. Miss Sarah lived to be 104. Describing her as a “tiny little thing with snow white…
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January 9, 1897 – February 13, 1973 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Few New Bernians have exemplified Christian charity more than Dr. Lula M. Disosway, who served as a medical missionary in China and Alaska, the medical director of the Good Shepherd Hospital, and the operator of…
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January 2, 1926 – January 27, 2017 by Rosalie Fonda, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Durham, NC, 2016 Elizabeth Wade Grant (Betty) was born in South Bend, Indiana, and soon after the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents were Florence Peabody of Malden, Massachusetts, and Roderic Paul Wade of Howe, Indiana. She attended high school…
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January 23, 1890 – September 25, 1968 by David Curtis Skaggs, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Elizabeth Gordon Griffin’s parents were Camilla Cook Vaughn Griffin and William Joseph Griffin. Her maternal grandparents were Camilla Helen Cook and Maurice Hamilton Vaughn, who served as rector of Christ Church, Elizabeth City from 1859-60 and 1870-73.…
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b. 1937 by Mary Louise Burress, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Carolyn Garrison Duckett, born in Hamlet, North Carolina, to Ralph and Evelyn Blackley Garrison, was confirmed on Easter Eve 1957 by the beloved Bishop Matthew George Henry at St. Andrew’s, Canton, in the Diocese of Western North Carolina. Bishop Henry was a…
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November 24, 1921 – March 29, 2005 by Elizabeth G. (Bett) Hargrave, Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, NC, 2016 Winifred Noble Blanton, “Winsie” to all who knew her, was a true pioneer in forging social justice in a rural, Southern town. She was clear about her values of equality for women and African Americans and she…
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May 9, 1920 – October 9, 2012 by Gertrude Murchison, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, 2016 Miss Laura Louise Hooper, a lady who shared her gifts, was the daughter of Thomas Harrison Hooper and Willie Taylor Hooper of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was a lifelong member of Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, where she was…
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1860 – 1955 by Charles Hall Ashford, Jr., MD, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Caroline Ann Winder Hughes was born in Raleigh in 1860, the daughter of Maj. John Cox Winder and Octavia Maria Bryan. Her father was a civil engineer and Vice President of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Her mother was…
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b. May 19, 1926 by Audrey Congdon Harris, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, High Point 2017 Active church members Colleen and Charlie Hartsoe raised their children at St. Mary’s where she is a member of ECW, St. Cecilia’s chapter, and served as President in 1975. Colleen participated in ECW Diocesan Convocations, Annual Meetings and was instrumental…
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January 10, 1903 – April 24, 1991 by Barbara Sue Oglesby Nicholl, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Erwin, NC, 2016 The life of Maude Graham Bost is inextricably intertwined with the history of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. St. Stephen’s was built in 1905 under the leadership of W. A. Erwin, on land he contributed. Mr. Erwin,…