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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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FRANCES JEAN COX-TAYLOR
May 8, 1914 – July 24, 2003 by Willard Seymour “Tom” Taylor, Jr., All Saints Episcopal Church, Hamlet, NC, 2015 Frances Jean Cox was born in Eden, North Carolina (then known as Leaksville-Spray), a daughter of Foster Nugent Cox and Virginia Mae Johnson. An attorney before his ordination to the Episcopal priesthood in 1945, Foster…
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CAROLYN TODD STOKES
b. September 20, 1944 by the Archives Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Carolyn Todd Stokes is a “cradle” Episcopalian. She was baptized on Christmas Eve of 1944 at Pinkney Memorial Church in Hyattsville, Maryland. Her family moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1947, where they became members of St. Paul’s Episcopal…
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MARY DAUCH DAVIS
b. February 12, 1930 by Page H. Onorato, Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, NC, 2016 Mary Dauch Davis came to Lexington, North Carolina, as a bride in 1956. Raised in Ohio, she met her future husband, Gray Davis, in Denver where she was teaching kindergarten after graduating from Oberlin College. She agreed to teach the young…
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ELIZABETH SPENCER GRAY
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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CAROL CAMPBELL DAVIS
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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BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE
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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MARTHA ANN McBRAYER HIGGINBOTHAM
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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CAROLINE WINDER DUNN ASHFORD
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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JOCELYN MARIE PALMER CONNORS
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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SUSAN MOFFAT-THOMAS
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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