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Note #6840 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

13-September-2001
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Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

          The Rev. Zane Buxton, manager of judicial process in the
Department of Constitutional Services for the Office of the General
Assembly, has been named interim synod executive for the Synod of Rocky
Mountains.

	He will be formally introduced to the synod at its Oct. 5-6 meeting and
will begin his new work Nov. 1.

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     Nola Pease Vander Meer, a 108-year-old former Presbyterian missionary
who was honored by the recent 213th General Assembly has died at her home
near Berea, Ky.

          Vander Meer served as a missionary nurse in Wooton, Ky., from 1917
to 1927. She then served with her husband in Morris Fork, in remote eastern
Kentucky, until her retirement in 1969.

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         Edgar B.B. Mathews, a certified public accountant who served as
controller of the former United Presbyterian Church in the United States of
America for 24 years, died Aug. 31 at his home in Brick, N.J. He was 83.

          A native of Pitcairn, Pa., near Pittsburgh, Mathews was an
ordained Presbyterian elder and deacon. In addition to his time on national
staff, he also served as a mission treasurer in Ethiopia and as treasurer
for the Synod of the Northeast. He retired in 1987.

     Mathews is survived by his wife of 52 years, Diantha; children Jeffrey
Caven and Ann Riker Matthews, and Denise Mathews and David Thomas Bell; and
three grandchildren.

# # #

	The Rev. Sandra K. Edwards, 52, Director of the African American Ministries
Program at McCormick Theological Seminary and well-known community leader,
was found dead  Aug. 18 in her home in Hyde Park. The medical examiner
reported that the cause of death was heart failure, apparently the result of
degenerative lung disease.

	A native of Charleston, S.C., Edwards graduated from Florida State
University and Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. She also served
in the Peace Corps from 1976-80 in the Philippines.

	Edwards served as a pastor in Detroit, on the staff of Pittsburgh
Presbytery and taught at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary before going to
McCormick in 1996.

	Funeral services were held Aug. 23 at Emmanual African Methodist Episcopal
Church in Moncks Corner, S.C. A memorial service will be held at McCormick
in September when school reconvenes.

	Sandra Edwards is survived by her mother, Mrs. Lucille Edwards, of Moncks
Corner, her brother, Charles Edwards III, of Miami, Fla., an uncle, Richard
Roper, of Moncks Corner and other relatives.

# # #

	Ruth Ann Gill, a stalwart in the General Assembly Newsroom since the early
1980s, has joined the staff of Congregational Ministries Publishing in the
Congregational Ministries Division as associate for administration. Gill
formerly worked in the Global Education and International Leadership
Development office of the Worldwide Ministries Division and before that
worked in the office of the Chief Financial Officer of Corporate and
Administrative Services (now Mission Support Services) at the Presbyterian
Center.

# # #

	Tammy Wiens, soon to be ordained by Abingdon Presbytery, has joined the
staff of the Congregational Ministries Division as associate for curriculum
development. Wiens holds masters degrees in Hebrew Bible from Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary and in counselor education from North Carolina State
University. Her husband, Sheldon Sorge, also serves on national staff as
associate for theology and worship, also in the Congregational Ministries
Division.
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