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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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ELIZABETH WADE GRANT
January 2, 1926 – January 27, 2017 by Rosalie Fonda, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Durham, NC, 2016 Elizabeth Wade Grant (Betty) was born in South Bend, Indiana, and soon after the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents were Florence Peabody of Malden, Massachusetts, and Roderic Paul Wade of Howe, Indiana. She attended high school…
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Annual Meeting 2017
Annual Meeting 2017 Annual Meeting 2017 Invitation and Keynoter Annual Meeting 2017 Agenda Annual Meeting 2017 Lodging Annual Meeting 2017 Directions Annual Meeting 2017 Book of Remembrance Annual Meeting 2017 Neighbors in Need Annual Meeting 2017 History Focus
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ELIZABETH GORDON GRIFFIN
January 23, 1890 – September 25, 1968 by David Curtis Skaggs, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Elizabeth Gordon Griffin’s parents were Camilla Cook Vaughn Griffin and William Joseph Griffin. Her maternal grandparents were Camilla Helen Cook and Maurice Hamilton Vaughn, who served as rector of Christ Church, Elizabeth City from 1859-60 and 1870-73.…
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CAROLYN GARRISON DUCKETT
b. 1937 by Mary Louise Burress, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Carolyn Garrison Duckett, born in Hamlet, North Carolina, to Ralph and Evelyn Blackley Garrison, was confirmed on Easter Eve 1957 by the beloved Bishop Matthew George Henry at St. Andrew’s, Canton, in the Diocese of Western North Carolina. Bishop Henry was a…
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WINIFRED NOBLE BLANTON
November 24, 1921 – March 29, 2005 by Elizabeth G. (Bett) Hargrave, Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, NC, 2016 Winifred Noble Blanton, “Winsie” to all who knew her, was a true pioneer in forging social justice in a rural, Southern town. She was clear about her values of equality for women and African Americans and she…
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LAURA LOUISE HOOPER
May 9, 1920 – October 9, 2012 by Gertrude Murchison, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, 2016 Miss Laura Louise Hooper, a lady who shared her gifts, was the daughter of Thomas Harrison Hooper and Willie Taylor Hooper of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was a lifelong member of Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, where she was…
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CAROLINE ANN WINDER HUGHES
1860 – 1955 by Charles Hall Ashford, Jr., MD, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Caroline Ann Winder Hughes was born in Raleigh in 1860, the daughter of Maj. John Cox Winder and Octavia Maria Bryan. Her father was a civil engineer and Vice President of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Her mother was…
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One could tell that her spiritual life was enriched
I want to record my memories of Lillie Fulton and all the years that she played and pumped that little organ. I’m sure others who played the organ on occasion probably had studied music more than Lillie, but none that I heard enjoyed that contribution to the life of Christ Church more than Lillie did.…
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Preparation for Deaconess
The Mission school this year has been taught by Miss Theodotes Boykin, a most sincere Christian woman, who has done excellent work. I regret we shall lose her next year, as she will enter upon a course of preparation for Deaconess. (Source: The Rev. J. E. King, Parochial Report, St. James’ Church, Pittsboro, 1907 Journal…
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COLLEEN IVEY HARTSOE
b. May 19, 1926 by Audrey Congdon Harris, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, High Point 2017 Active church members Colleen and Charlie Hartsoe raised their children at St. Mary’s where she is a member of ECW, St. Cecilia’s chapter, and served as President in 1975. Colleen participated in ECW Diocesan Convocations, Annual Meetings and was instrumental…
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