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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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NANCY SALISBURY NEILL SPENCER
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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JANICE MIDDLETON LEWIS
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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ELIZABETH ANDERSON REESE WARD
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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MARJORIE ROMINGER JOYNER NORTHUP
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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BETTYE JO COOKE PARAMORE
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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CARROLL LISENBY McCULLOUGH
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…
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Naming Names – Join the Challenge!
Enjoy more historical vignettesat the ECW Annual Meeting NAMING NAMES – JOIN THE CHALLENGE! By Lynn Hoke, ECW Archivist/Historian For almost two hundred years now, women in North Carolina have been key players in getting many Episcopal Churches organized, built and maintained. Too often the historical accounts mention only a “devoted woman,” “several earnest church…
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Naming Names: The Founding of Holy Trinity Church
– Enjoy more historical vignettes at the ECW Annual Meeting – NAMING NAMES – JOIN THE CHALLENGE! For almost two hundred years now, women in North Carolina have been key players in getting many Episcopal Churches organized, built and maintained. Too often the historical accounts mention only a “devoted woman,” “several earnest church women,” or…
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SARAH MASTERS FARMER HORRELL
May 11, 1904 – October 16, 2008 by Ellen Chesley Weig, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, N.C. May 18, 2016 She celebrated her 100th birthday with a pig picking, invited everyone from church, and drove herself to the party. Miss Sarah lived to be 104. Describing her as a “tiny little thing with snow white…
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LULA MARJORIE DISOSWAY, M. D.
January 9, 1897 – February 13, 1973 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Few New Bernians have exemplified Christian charity more than Dr. Lula M. Disosway, who served as a medical missionary in China and Alaska, the medical director of the Good Shepherd Hospital, and the operator of…
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