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Episcopal Church Women in NC
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b. 1932 by the Archives Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Helen Ann Lerian is a cradle Episcopalian who grew up at St. Timothy’s parish in Catonsville, Maryland. She was very active with the Church during her early years. In 1956 she married Dudley Humphrey, from Wilmington, North Carolina. They moved to…
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1803 – 1864 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Arete Sitgreaves Ellis was the daughter of Maj. George Ellis and Amaryllis Sitgreaves Ellis, who were married in Craven County, NC, in 1792. George represented New Bern in the 1800 and 1801 House of Commons, and Amaryllis was the…
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b. April 3, 1933 by Richard Moore, St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Mary Louise spent her early Episcopal life in the Diocese of Washington, first at St John’s, Mt. Ranier, from age nine to thirteen, and then at Grace Church, Silver Spring, through high school and college. At St. John’s she set up…
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September 30, 1896 – April 24, 1978 by Ellen C. Weig, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, NC Miss Annie, as she was fondly known, was a beloved member of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and the Hillsborough community. In 1977, a “News of Orange Sketch” highlighted her life. She graduated in 1916 from St. Mary’s School…
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b. May 9, 1934 by Archives Committee, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 A cradle Episcopalian hailing from St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Jackson, Mississippi, Nancy has been a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church since she and her first husband Robert L. Neill moved to Winston-Salem. Through the years her activities at St. Paul’s have…
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b. 1959 by the Landscape Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Janice joined St. Paul’s with her husband, Charles, and her daughter, Mary. A licensed landscape architect, Janice was quickly recruited by the Landscape Committee, and, after three years, became Chair of the Committee. Under her leadership, a number of projects were…
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b. August 2, 1935 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Few women have had a more diverse and important leadership role in Christ Church, New Bern, than Elizabeth Ward. Elizabeth was born in High Point, North Carolina, where she was brought up in the Methodist Church and attended…
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b. October 17, 1929 by Eugenie Waddell (Genie) Carr, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Marjorie Joyner was born in Winston-Salem into a family of staunch Southern Baptists. It was in the Baptist Young People’s Union that she started her lifelong practice of serving God through the church. As a teenager, for instance, for…
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b. November 29, 1929 by Katherine Paramore Carman Field, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Born a Baptist, Bettye chose to become an Episcopalian in 1950, when she joined Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill where she was living with husband Walter, a student at the university. After Walter graduated, the couple lived…
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b. February 16, 1941 by Eugenie Waddell (Genie) Carr, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Carroll McCullough is a native of Alabama, born in the small town of Ozark. She and her two siblings “were blessed with a wonderful extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins.” Carroll received her higher education in Alabama at…