Joan Summerfield
Province IV – Diocese of Western North Carolina
Joan Summerfield, grew up in a Christian home and attended Sunday school every Sunday.
After marrying a priest, she joined Grace Episcopal Church in Morganton, NC. Her first experience with ECW was going to their wonderful Thanksgiving Bazaars, and later attending several weekend retreats sponsored by the ECW.
She worked as a Registered Nurse most of her married life in Mental Health and finally as Director of Infection Control at the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Hospital in Wingdale, NY.
Retiring to North Carolina in 1995, she joined the Episcopal Church Women’s group, serving the Diocesan Board of the Western North Carolina ECW, by first chairing the All Saints Day Memorial Offering (ASDMO). She became Vice-President for two years and then President for 2003-2004.
Their weeklong mission trip to San Palo Sula, Honduras in January 2005 to “Our Little Roses Ministries” was a highlight of her tenure. She later served as co-chair of the Foothills Deanery of Western North Carolina Diocese.
She says, “It has been a pleasure serving with such a fine group of women for so many years.”
