Episcopal Church Women in NC
b. March 7, 1955 by Mary Louise Burress, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Fifteen years ago, three women – Becky Clingman, Trudy Winstead, and Susan Uphoff, with help from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – started the Winston-Salem Augustine Project with six tutors and students at one school. They believed, as we still do,…
SARAH DIANE RALPH LANIER, b. June 26, 1937 SANDRA FAULKNER RALPH JOSEPH, b. November 7, 1942 SARAH PAULETTE LANIER WELLS, b. March 5, 1969 ALLISON ANN JOSEPH CRUMPLER, b. April 16, 1972 by Barbara Sue Oglesby Nicholl, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Erwin, 2016 In 2005, at the time of the 100th Anniversary of St. Stephen’s…
November 11, 1917 – December 27, 2008 by Barbara Sue Oglesby Nicholl, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Erwin, 2016 If there was ever anyone who appreciated God as the creator of the universe, and who took it on as her responsibility to keep our earth green, it was Pauline Ralph. She was appointed by the mayor…
December 21, 1919 – February 5, 2000 by Mary Louise Gregory Wilson, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Mary Louise Riddick was born December 21, 1919, to Louise Josey and Neusom Allsbrook Riddick in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. She was baptized (1920), confirmed (1931), and married (1946) at Trinity Church in Scotland Neck. In…
March 28, 1926 – June 14, 2014 by Ellen Chesley Weig, for Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, 2016 When Isabelle was a young girl, St. Matthew’s held Sunday School “in the church building and the different classes just went to different corners of the church.” Memories of her Sunday School teachers stayed with her, as…
by Carolyn Townsend, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Pittsboro, 2016 Nancy Pyle Simons has served the Episcopal Church for more than sixty years with the Altar Guild, as a choir member and as a volunteer in the church office. At. St. Bartholomew’s she was editor of the Grapevine newsletter and worked on the church grounds with…
Announcing Our NewDiocesan ECW Board Members President – Mary Gordon Mary Gordon has been serving as the Interim President of the Diocesan ECW since November 2015, before her election as President in November 2016. She has been a communicant for forty plus years at St. Mary’s, High Point. At St. Mary’s she proudly serves as…
b. 1947 by the Landscape Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Cynthia, along with her husband, Edwin E. Bouldin, Jr., has been a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem since 1974. Her longtime involvement in church activities includes serving as a Cub Scout and Webelos leader, a member of the…
October 16, 1912 – October 9, 2011 by Hanna Kitchin Herring, Trinity Church, Scotland Neck, 2016 Following the death of my mother in the fall of 2011, I learned that a few older priests in the diocese affectionately referred to her as ‘Ms. Episcopalian.’ My mother loved God, her family and her Church, in that…
March 1893 – January 1987 by Ellen C Weig, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, NC, 2016 The training to be a deaconess, director of education, or a parish worker at the Church Training and Deaconess House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, took two to three years of rigorous study and included courses on the Bible and Church…