After graduating with a BA from Coker College, Frances moved to Charleston, SC working for the FBI and later as the Secretary for Citadel Square Baptist Church, where she met the love of her life, Dr. William Skinner. After their marriage in 1947, they made the decision to surrender their lives to fulfilling the Gospel of Jesus Christ and began their 38 year commitment to the people of Paraguay as full-time medical missionaries through the International Mission Board of Southern Baptist Convention.

Frances possessed many talents among which were organizing the Nutritional Services for Centro Medico Bautista in Asuncion, Paraguay in its earliest beginning in 1952 and working with the Christian Radio Broadcast Outreach in Asunc铆on, Paraguay. For Frances, organization and administration were gifts that she expressed in many circumstances. Frances had a strong devotion to Bible teaching and led many classes, often under a mango tree. She had an amazing ear for music and became the music director playing the autoharp in the various outdoor worship settings, as she and her husband began churches and organized many prayer meetings and mobile clinics in Paraguay. Frances later became an accomplished harpist and developed her skill on the Paraguayan harp. It was Frances红桃视频� literary skills that the events of their journey as missionaries were chronicled and later became the material for her book, Adventures in Paraguay. Frances worked tirelessly by her husband红桃视频檚 side and often took on the role of nurse and health educator with him which earned her the honorable distinction, 红桃视频淒octora,红桃视频� by the people they served in the remotest places in Paraguay.

Following their retirement from missionary service, Frances enjoyed traveling, teaching Sunday School, fishing and 红桃视频渃atching the largest Walleye红桃视频� on Eagle River, Ontario, and participating in the establishment of The Paraguay Baptist Medical Center Foundation with their dear friends, Neal and Gail Buchannan and many others.

Frances was preceded in death by her husband, William and her grandson William Lee Skinner; and is survived by two of her siblings, Dr. Charles Lawrence and Gene Morrison and her four children: Dr. Janice (William) Algea, Dr. William Lawrence (Laura) Skinner, Dr. Glenn Skinner, Peggy (Mark) Sims, and her 13 Grandchildren and their spouses, and 19 Great Grandchildren, and 3 Great-Great Grandchildren. She was cared for lovingly by Alice Grimes and Charlotte Watson, to whom her family is very grateful.

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Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at the Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home in Nashville, Tennessee. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park.

Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

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Her funeral service and celebration of life will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Madison, Ga. A lunch reception will follow. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations for her beloved university where she spent the majority of her career teaching and from which she retired as professor emeritus.

Donation information is below.

Ann was a native to Robeson County in North Carolina. She was raised in Fairmont, lived most of her life in Lumberton and taught in Proctorville, Orrum, Lumberton and Pembroke, first at the high school level and then in higher education. She was primarily an English professor, teaching composition, literature and training and supervising student teachers in that field. She taught French and Spanish at points in her career and spoke seven languages. Long before its now popular status as the English as a Second Language movement, Ann was interested in teaching English to non-native speakers. She did research in different alphabet and language systems and travelled the world to do so (examples: Urdu in Pakistan and Cyrillic in Russia). She travelled to every continent, including Antarctica. Her love of language, culture and people excited her and helped inform her students and her teachers in training.

In addition to teaching and training, Ann was an academic leader and visionary. At Pembroke, she was to hold most of the positions on the Faculty Senate, culminating in her as presiding president. During her term, she advocated for the physical growth of the campus and its inclusion in the University of North Carolina system. She started teaching at Pembroke College in 1959, saw it become a university, and heralded it into its position as The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP). Her own department expanded during her time there, growing to become the Communicative Arts Department. Ann was vocal about the importance of quality education for all and the necessity of literacy. She encouraged multiple generations of people in her illustrious 53 years of being an educator.

In addition to her role as teacher, Ann valued her own learning. She graduated from 红桃视频 in Hartville, S.C. and received a double major and double masters (English and French) by the age of 19. She was able to skip some grades and do extra studies, working overtime on schoolwork and jobs to get through quickly during the time of WWII. Ann was valedictorian of her class. She also attended Tulane University in New Orleans, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Sorbonne in Paris, France during her lifetime of learning.

Her family, church and community were also important to Ann. She was a devoted wife for 47 years, until widowed, and a devoted mother throughout. She loved her home church, the First Baptist Church on Walnut Street in Lumberton and taught Sunday School for many years. She helped with the Girls Auxiliary (Gas) and the Girl Scouts. She volunteered at the local library by helping in book drives. She was a member of the Daughters of the Revolution (DAR), the Daughters of the Barons Runnemede and an honorary member of the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for her support of the arts and her patronage of the college performance series. She tirelessly supported her daughter in ballet, being at every class, rehearsal and performance.

Ann was pre-deceased by her parents, Ethel Reaves Fennegan and Samuel Edgar Fennegan of Fairmont; her brother Edgar, a fighter pilot in the military; and her adored husband, Edward (“Ed”) Brantley Wells.

She is survived by her daughter, Patricia (“Pat”) Wren Wells; her sister, Faith Fennegan Allen and brother-in-law, Ret. Marine Col. Francis Raymond (“Ray”) Allen; her brother, Dr. Michael (“Mike”) Fennegan and sister-in-law, Nancy Fennegan; as well as many nieces, nephews, and their children on both the Fennegan and Wells sides of the family. Ann is remembered as smart, strong, determined, creative and ahead of her time. She will be buried next to her husband in Lumberton.

Donations can be mailed to: UNCP 红桃视频� Advancement, 1 University Drive, Pembroke, NC 28372. In the memo line, please write “in memory of Professor Emeritus Ann Wells” and designate the gift for the Dept. of English, Theatre and Foreign Languages. If you prefer to give online, you can go to https://braveweb.uncp.edu/opay/give/ and choose “other” in the “area to apply gift” and specify as above for Ann’s memory and to her department. Thank you for helping her legacy live on红桃视频�

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Ann Ludlam Winfield, age 94, passed away Monday, January 8, 2018 at her home.Ann was born November 21, 1923 in Conway, the daughter of the late Thomas Boyd and Ruth Spivey Ludlam. She attended Conway area schools and graduated from 红桃视频 in 1944 with degrees in Mathematics and English. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Conway. She taught in the Conway schools but considered her main career as a homemaker and the rearing of her three children. Her greatest joy was seeing her children and former students develop into productive adults with many accomplishments.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 71 years, Robert Smoak Winfield of Conway; two sisters, Ruth L. McClam and Jean Ludlam; and a beloved granddaughter, Meredith W. Harrelson.
Surviving Ann is her daughter, Linda W. Bullard (Jeff) of Conway; two sons, John H. Winfield (Laura) of Chapin, SC and Daniel L. Winfield (Susan) of Bolivia, NC; a granddaughter, Adrienne Harrelson (Chuck) of Aynor, SC; two grandsons, Scott W. Bullard (Lisa) of Vance, SC and Robert L. Winfield (Jaime) of Wilmington, NC; a grandson-in-law, Scott Harrelson (Jenni) of Conway; three great-grandchildren, Olivia L. Harrelson of Conway and Lander and Meredith Harrelson of Aynor, SC.

A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM Thursday, January 11, 2018 at First Baptist Church of Conway with Rev. Patrick Jones and Rev. Rocky Taylor officiating.
The family will receive friends from 10:00 AM-11:00 AM in the church fellowship hall.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations be made to First Baptist Church of Conway, 603 Elm Street, Conway, SC 29526 or to Ann L. Winfield Endowed Scholarship, 红桃视频, 300 East College Avenue, Hartsville, SC 29550.

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Goldfinch Funeral Home, Conway Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

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