ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-NC
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October 2, 1922 – December 29, 2015 by Rosalie Fonda, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Durham, NC, 2016 The daughter of Mary Elizabeth Benton Spencer and Percy C. Spencer, Elizabeth Spencer Gray was born in Greenville, North Carolina in 1922. She completed high school and took college and graduate classes in Early Childhood Education at the…
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b. 1960 by the Archives Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Carol Campbell Davis grew up in the United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina while attending the Chapel of the Cross sporadically. After moving to Winston-Salem in 1991, Carol was invited by a work colleague, Marty Lentz, to join the…
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b. January 14, 1947 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Beverly Eaves Perdue, a member of Christ Church, served as the 73rd governor of North Carolina from 2009 to 2013. Christ Church in New Bern has a long and rich tradition of providing leadership in public service and…
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b. March 1936 by Mary Louise Burress, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Martha Ann McBrayer was born in Winston Salem and grew up in the First Presbyterian Church. In the mid 1990s she began going to St. Paul’s on a regular basis. Two dear friends, Barbara Douglas and Bill Carr, were instrumental in…
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August 16, 1912 – April 12, 2013 By Charles K. (Ken), McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Caroline Ashford was a lifelong member of Christ Church. She and her husband, Dr. Charles Hall Ashford, were the parents of Dr. Charlie Ashford, Caroline Smith and Tay Roberts, all regular attendees at Christ Church.…
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b. February 13, 1941 by Eugenie (Genie) Waddell Carr, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 According to Jocelyn Connors, “Being an Episcopalian has offered me a vision of the Gospel and a vocation that rewards and sustains me… I try to follow the teachings of Jesus as well as I can, and I am…
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b. August 19, 1941 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Susan Moffat-Thomas moved to New Bern in 1981, beginning a career of service and leadership. For 30 years, before retiring in December 2014, Susan was the Executive Director of Swiss Bear Downtown Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization established…
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b. 1942 by Eugenie (Genie) Waddell Carr, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Suzanne Baldwin Borum “Zanne” Baker was born into a family of Episcopalians. Like her mother, she was active in the Episcopal Church in tiny West Point, Va., (“small as your thumb”), including singing in the choir. That tradition of service has…
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December 17, 1876 – April 6, 1959 by David Curtis Skaggs, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Few Christ Church women have been more of a rebel against the norms of their day than a New Bern girl named Mary Bayard Morgan. She was one of the town’s first nationally known female entrepreneurs and…
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b. December 16, 1946 by the Archives Committee, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, 2016 Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Eugenie “Genie” Waddell Carr was baptized and confirmed at St. James Episcopal Church in Wilmington. In her own words, “I’ve loved church since I was little. I still can feel the press of Bishop Thomas Wright’s…