She had an obsession for helping others

Aunt Nannie was superintendent, business manager, secretary, and treasurer of the school for 37 years, and the person with whom all business concerning the school was transacted. She did all the employing of school personnel; she was chief disciplinarian; and it was she who made the school the success it was. As one of her pupils says, “Education was almost her God, and she had an obsession for helping others.”

(Source: This excerpt was drawn from a profile of Mary Anna Davis Geffroy for “By Word & Example: Women Who Graced the Episcopal Church in North Carolina, 1817-2017.”