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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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SUZANNE BALDWIN BORUM BAKER
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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MARY BAYARD MORGAN WOOTTEN
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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EUGENIE WADDELL CARR
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…
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ELIZABETH MARSSDORF JONES
b. 1924 by Ann Victoria Harris Bustard, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Elizabeth Marssdorf Jones, one of the Crown Jewels of Christ Church, was born in 1924 in New York. Beth’s parents saw to it that their five children attended the Episcopal Church from birth. As a young girl, Beth became a choir…
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PATRICIA O’BRIEN TANKARD BROWN
b. 1932 by the Archives Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Shortly before moving to Winston-Salem in 1966, Pat and Hal Brown met with Dudley Calhoun, rector of St. Paul’s in Winston-Salem. After meeting with him and the St. Paul’s staff, they were sure they had found their new church home. The…
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ANN MARGARET DONNELL
April 2, 1823 – March 7, 1908 by David Curtis Skaggs, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Ann Margaret Donnell was born in New Bern to Judge John Robert Donnell and Margaret Spaight Donnell. Governor Richard Dobbs Spaight was her grandfather, and her brother, Richard Spaight Donnell, was a United States Congressman. Few individuals…
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HELEN ANN LERIAN HUMPHREY
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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ARETE SITGREAVES ELLIS
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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MARY LOUISE HANSON MOORE
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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ANNIE SUTTON CAMERON
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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