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Annual Meeting 2025
143rd Annual Meeting Episcopal Church Women,Diocese of North Carolina Saturday, November 15, 2025, 9 AM – 3:30 PM The Station at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church875 W. 5th St. Winston-Salem NC 27101 Special Guest: Lisa Bortner President, National Episcopal Church Women Sharing her vision for… ECW Reimagined! National ECW is a churchwide organization dedicated to empowering Episcopal…
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ANNE EURETTA DOAR STOWE
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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HARRIET LOUISE GILBERT MILDE
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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MARY TARRY PORTER
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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JANE FRANCES MERRITT
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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REBECCA HILL (1840-1913) & THE LADIES OF HER FAMILY
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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BARBARA ANN STEPHENS ODDERSTOL
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,…
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MARY BAYARD DEVEREUX CLARKE
May 13, 1827 – March 30, 1886 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Mary Bayard Devereux Clarke was born on May 13, 1827, in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Thomas Pollock Devereux and Catherine Anne Johnson Devereux. Her ancestors include revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards, clergyman and educator Samuel Johnson,…
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IRMA ELIZABETH GORDON WALKER CROWELL
October 25, 1920 – November 2, 2014 by the Episcopal Church Women, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Hamlet, 2016 Irma Crowell was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1920, to Delores Felice Perl and William St. George Walker. In 1941 she married Julius Alexander Crowell, Sr. (1916-2005), and they had a son and a daughter: Dr. Julius…
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PATRICIA MENNE THOMAS
b. October 6, 1936 by the Rev. Paul Canady, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 The Rev. Dr. Patricia Menne Thomas served as Rector of Christ Church from 1999-2002. She was the first woman (and only, thus far) to hold the title. Pat’s time at Christ Church was, by most people’s accounting, a tumultuous…
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MINNETTE CHAPMAN DUFFY
February 20, 1882 – October 1, 1951 by David Curtis Skaggs, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Beginning in the 1920s, Christ Church’s Minnette Chapman Duffy championed one of the longest running and most important projects in the history of New Bern – the rebuilding of Tryon Palace. The wife of New Bern physician…
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