Molly was born in Buffalo NY, daughter of the late John C. Creadick and Laura Liles Creadick.

Growing up in Aiken Molly became a lover of horses and riding in the Hitchcock Woods. She eventually built a house on a hill where she would ride as a teen and dream of her future house. She not only loved to ride in the woods but was an avid nature photographer and loved spending time in the woods photographing the things she saw and was a member of the Aiken Camera Club. She was a sponsor of and a volunteer at the Horse Show in the Woods, one of her favorite events in Aiken. She always took a turn taking tickets at the gate and greeting everyone.

Molly was a graduate of Coker, then college but now University which she would proudly tell everyone. She began her teaching career on St. Simon������Ƶ�s Island but returned to Aiken to teach at the elementary school. If you visit the library and go to the Gray Family Reading Room you will be standing in her classroom. She also taught at Aiken Day School and Mead Hall and was an active member of St. Thaddeus Church for many years. She took great joy in creating beautiful arrangements for the altar. When Molly wasn������Ƶ�t teaching or riding in the woods, she could be found at the Aiken Community Playhouse, singing in Hopelands Gardens, or in one of the famous Aiken Heart Shows. Her love of the theater and of music was passed on to her children. She also loved a good party and was an amazing cook and hostess. Later in life she discovered court tennis and loved playing here in Aiken and going to Philadelphia and Rhode Island to watch friends play. Many people were blessed with the gifts of her latest passion which was to paint pictures of the pets of her friends. While she sporadically painted for years, in the last few years she joined an art class and loved the painting and camaraderie of the classes.

Molly, or Maja as the grandkids called her, loved her family with all her heart and was loved by all who knew her. While she is gone from this earth, she will forever be present in Aiken.

She is survived by her daughter, Lynne Gray, Aiken; her son, Geoffrey Liggett (Peggy) Gray, Ft. Mill, SC; grandchildren, Conner Reitz, Claire Smoot, Cameron (Karolina) Marple, and Cody (Kelly) Marple.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Peter L. Gray, and brother, John D. Creadick.

The funeral service will be at 11:00 AM, Saturday, August 17, 2024, at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church with the Reverend Marshall Jolly officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, please direct memorials to Hitchcock Woods Foundation, P.O. Box 1702, Aiken, SC 29802.

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Anne Glass, who taught piano at Austin Peay State University for decades and served as the organist for Trinity Episcopal Church for 60 years, has died at age 84.

Here is her obituary, shared through Neal-Tarpley Parchman Funeral Home:

If there is a patron saint of piano accompaniment, it is Elizabeth Anne Davis Glass.

Born in Marion, S.C., on May 30, 1938, Anne������Ƶ�s love of music began at the age of 5 when she said she wanted a piano. Her father bought her a baby grand. She attended Coker College and graduated from Stetson University with a Bachelor of Music degree. She held a Master of Music degree in piano performance from George Peabody College. Associated with the music department of Austin Peay State University since 1962, she became a full-time faculty member in 1975 and was later made full professor, retiring in 2019. During her tenure, she attended master classes at the Franz-Schubert Institute in Baden, Austria, and collaborated with every member of the instrumental and vocal faculty, including accompanying Dr. Sharon Mabry at Carnegie Hall. In 2011, Anne was presented the George Mabry Award which recognizes a living Tennessean who has made a significant impact on arts and culture in Montgomery County.

As legend has it, her career as church organist of Trinity Episcopal Church began one frosty Christmas Eve when then choir director, Dr. Thomas Cowan, asked her to sub at the last minute. They asked her to stay. Stay she did. This year is her 60th anniversary as church organist. She played services, weddings, funerals, concerts, and loved rousing Bach preludes that seemed to lift the pipes slightly from their casing. She could vamp like no one else. And for those in the know, her humor sometimes got the best of her, occasionally working ������Ƶ�Happy Birthday to You������Ƶ� or a pop song into a classical interlude during Communion.

She was a singer������Ƶ�s best friend. She could transpose on sight ������Ƶ� handy for lowering the key for raspy voices; was known to gently whisper lyrics to the forgetful and could jump around a score when people forgot their place. Even though it meant extra hours, she loved accompanying student recitals, opera rehearsals and auditions. An avid champion of the Clarksville Community Concert Association, she was honored for her support in 2022.

Her support of students was legendary. Always aware of struggling musicians������Ƶ� pocketbooks, she often lowered her fees or sometimes just said, ������Ƶ�Oh, I������Ƶ�d really rather you just come rake leaves.������Ƶ� She was generous to a fault.

Second to her desire to nourish the soul with music was her mission to feed everyone. She fretted about students who might not be eating enough and regularly plied them with muffins and banana bread. She made brownies for the mechanic and cookies for the handyman. One did not celebrate holidays with fewer than four dessert choices. Choir practice included baked goods in a basket.

She always remained true to her Southern upbringing of manners and decorum and was a vocal proponent for the proper use of the verbs ������Ƶ�lie������Ƶ� and ������Ƶ�lay.������Ƶ�

Trinity was her home away from home. She said it was the happiest place of her life.

She is preceded in her passing by her mother and father, Henry Jesse and Norma Davis; brother Carroll Davis; and her second husband, Charles Crist. She leaves behind children, Laurens Glass, Lucie Glass, Brian Glass, Charli Christ, Cindi Walters, and Vicki Gray; grandchildren, Jackson Craft and Davis Glass; sister Ellen Davis; brother, Derrick Davis and his wife, Ann; sister-in-law, Laura Davis; nieces, Patricia Davis and Jane Noyes; nephews, Walt Davis, Tim Davis and James Davis; in-laws Kathie and Chuck McLaughlin; kitty, Pinky; her beloved friends, Don Shelton and Shirley Marie Watts; and countless others we wish we could name.

Her family thanks everyone who cared for her over the years, and especially this past month.

������Ƶ�If music be the food of love, play on.������Ƶ�

Arrangements to be announced through Neal-Tarpley Parchman.

Though no gift is expected, Anne loved flowers. She also was devoted to supporting the singers and instrumentalists of Trinity Episcopal Church and donating to animal rescue.

Enjoy one of her last performances with her student and friend, Emmanuel Mejeun, at Trinity Episcopal Church on Jan. 14, Mozart������Ƶ�s ������Ƶ�Pieta, Signore.������Ƶ� Please scroll in to 1:00:40.

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Joan Watt Privette, 85, passed away recently. She was the wife of the late Colonel Jake Henry Privette. Mrs. Privette was born in Laurens, a daughter of Claude and Sallie Watt. She graduated from Hartsville High School and attended Coker College. A proud Army wife, she and the children moved around the country and overseas with Jake during his career before they retired to Columbia, SC.

Mrs. Privette is survived by her sister, Kay W. Yonce of Lexington, her son Jacob H. Privette III and her daughter Susan, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
Private family services will be held at a later date.

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Sharon grew up in Jefferson and was a lifelong musician forever thankful for beginning piano lessons at Coker College by sixth grade. She attended Furman University and graduated from Coker in 1959, where she was Miss Coker College, Miss Hartsville, and a Miss South Carolina runner-up.

Sharon shared her musical talents for many years as a choral director, church organist, and piano teacher. She will be remembered for her playing and singing at family gatherings; and for her joy and creativity in sewing, flower arranging, home decorating, and preparing delicious gourmet meals.

Survivors are daughters Sharon Kristen Gregory, Avril Gregory Franks, and Gracen Jennings Watts; and grandchildren Cooper, Emmy, and Rowan; all of Charleston County.

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Raised by her aunt and uncle, Viola and Jimmy Burton, in Conway, South Carolina, Shirley graduated from Coker College in 1959 with a B.S. in history and social science. She earned her master������Ƶ�s in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt in 1961.

After serving for two years as staff psychologist at Chattanooga������Ƶ�s Moccasin Bend Psychiatric Hospital, Shirley moved to Memphis in 1963 to join the psychology faculty of the University of Memphis (then Memphis State University). She met Michael Lupfer when he joined the faculty the following year. They married in 1967, and their son Eric was born two years later.

Shirley remained a member of the U of M faculty for 35 years, teaching courses in abnormal and developmental psychology, theories of personality, and women in American society. She was especially proud of the courses she developed on human sexuality and the conceptions and portrayals of ������Ƶ�deviance������Ƶ� in western culture.

Shirley served the department and university in multiple roles. She directed the psychology department������Ƶ�s master������Ƶ�s program from its inception in the early eighties until her retirement in 1998. She also supervised clinicians in training in the department������Ƶ�s Psychological Services Center, which provides critical counseling services to the Memphis community.

However, teaching was Shirley������Ƶ�s true passion. Her remarkable skill as a teacher and mentor touched countless lives. She was one of only a handful of faculty to receive The University of Memphis Distinguished Teaching Award twice (1974, 1983). In 1986, she received the W. Russell Smith Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences, and in 1990 the University College Advising Award.

In 2012, Shirley and Mike endowed an award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the U of M������Ƶ�s psychology department������Ƶ�an extension of their commitment to the university������Ƶ�s core educational mission. The ������Ƶ�Lupfer Award,������Ƶ� as it is known on campus, is presented to a full-time member of the University������Ƶ�s psychology faculty once every four years, most recently in 2021.

After retirement, Shirley continued teaching but at a different Memphis institution. In 2000, she became a docent at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, leading tours of the museum������Ƶ�s permanent and traveling exhibitions with her broad knowledge, insight, and wit.

Shirley������Ƶ�s community service also included serving as board chair of Planned Parenthood and Girls Inc. She was a member of the Leadership Memphis class of 1985. In 1988, she and Mike received the Leadership Memphis Gooch Award for Community Service.

Shirley often joked that Mike could have been a travel agent in another life. In their 51 years together, the two of them traveled the world. Together, they visited all seven continents, attended the four tournaments in the tennis Grand Slam, and hiked nearly all of the trips the Sierra Club offers. Beloved friends spent happy evenings at the Lupfers������Ƶ� home in Central Gardens viewing slides and hearing stories from their adventures.

Shirley was an avid reader, a splendid cook, and a dedicated crossword puzzler. She loved tennis and the friends she played with. Her passion for the Boston Red Sox, which she shared with Mike, ran deep, as did her dedication to her dogs Bonnie and Andy. To her final days, she remained entirely herself������Ƶ�sharp and curious, quick with a story, and generous with affection, broccoli cornbread, and rosemary pecans for her many, many friends throughout the city.

Mike passed in 2018. Shirley is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Eric Lupfer and Victoria Davis of Austin, Texas; her nephew Mike Johnson and his wife Debi of Loris, South Carolina; and her sister-in-law Sharon Nardo, niece Abby Nardo, and Abby������Ƶ�s husband Christian Karkow, all of Raleigh, North Carolina.

The family will hold a memorial service in the fall. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to ,��,��., the , or a charity of your choice.

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Born October 4, 1937 to Fred Wilson Phillips and Sara Buzhardt Phillips, Nancy grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. She graduated from Greenville High School and went on to study at and graduate from Coker College in Hartsville, S.C. A Fairfax County elementary school teacher by trade, Nancy touched the lives of countless students at Groveton, Cardinal Forest, and Fairview Elementary Schools. Her gentle, soft-spoken demeanor coupled with her creativity and attention to beauty and detail made learning a joy and adventure for all.

Nancy loved flowers and the gardens she and her husband kept were cared for meticulously so that all who saw them could see and experience beauty as they passed their home. She loved cats, the daily Washington Post crossword puzzle, watching the television show Jeopardy nightly with her husband, and traveling.

Selfless and self-sacrificing throughout her entire life, she devoted most moments to others and did this with joy. She was continually solicitous for the well-being of family, friends, parishioners at Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, and people she met. Nancy loved Jesus Christ with her whole heart and that love permeated her entire life.

Friends are invited to visit with the family on Sunday, May 5, at Fairfax Memorial Funeral Home, 9902 Braddock Road, Fairfax, VA, from 4-7 p.m. A funeral service is scheduled for 12:30 p.m., Monday, May 6 at Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 9350 Braddock Rd., Burke, VA. Interment will follow at Fairfax Memorial Park.

Memorial donations in Nancy������Ƶ�s name can be sent to El Hogar, 21 Cummings Park Drive, Suite 238, Woburn, MA 01801 or at www.elhogar.org El Hogar, provides homes and education for extremely impoverished children in Honduras.

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Sylvia was born September 12, 1937 to John and Louise ������Ƶ�Penny������Ƶ� Pennell. After graduating from ������Ƶ, she became a flight attendant and was based in Boston where she met a pharmacist, Dan Lemelin, who would become her husband and the love of her life.

With the arrival of three sons, her life������Ƶ�s purpose focused on serving her Lord in two main areas: her family and her church. She chose to have a home that was joyful and peaceful and to be intentionally involved in her family������Ƶ�s lives. This would involve attending many ball games: T-ball, baseball, football, basketball, and gymnastics meets. But, more importantly, the life lessons she could instill in their boys on how to follow God������Ƶ�s principles when responding to a referee������Ƶ�s wrong call or remembering how it felt when you missed the ������Ƶ�would be������Ƶ� winning basket so you would show compassion in the future to another player, to be honest in all things������Ƶ�. The fruit of their parents������Ƶ� labors are evidenced today in the lives of three men of integrity.

During these years too, she was using the talents God had given her. She used her beautiful voice to sing in choirs over 50 years. She used the genuine love she had for teenagers to teach them in youth groups at church. With her ability to make them laugh and feel loved, they were drawn to her. She taught them scripture by word and example, listened to their problems and gave wise counsel over 20 years.

She had a unique sense of humor that meant fun and laughter, her gifts to all those around her. Is it any wonder her grandchildren loved their Mimi and she delighted in them. She was a loving sister and a faithful friend who knew how to love unconditionally, a rare and valued gift.

Her parents, her husband, Dan and grandson Dawson Lemelin were waiting in Heaven for her.

Those remaining to carry on her legacy are three sons; Greg Lemelin and , wife Meg, of Kannapolis; Jeff Lemelin and wife, Christina, of Charlotte; Chris Lemelin and wife, Christy of Raleigh; 9 grandchildren; 2 brothers: John Pennell and, wife, Patsy, of South Carolina, and Sam Pennell and wife, Patsy of South Carolina and many nephews and nieces.

A Celebration of Sylvia������Ƶ�s life will be at Calvary Church beginning at 3:00PM, Friday, December 21, 2018. Visitation will begin one hour prior to service time.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Calvary Church
5801 Prineville-Matthews Rd
Charlotte, NC 28226

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