Jo Carr papers 1960-1981 1965-1979

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Jo Carr papers 1960-1981 1965-1979

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Bettye Jo Crisler Carr (1926-2007) was a United Methodist preacher, a teacher, an author, a missionary, a mother of five, and a leader of the Girl Scouts of America. The Jo Carr papers represent her work as a freelance writer. The majority of the collection contains articles, prayers, devotionals, religious education lesson plans, and books that Carr wrote. Correspondence, book reviews, news articles, children’s magazines, galleys, and publishing contracts are also included.

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Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

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United Methodist Church (U.S.)

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Although this collection contains records primarily from the N.C. and Western N.C. Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), and national records from both the MECS and the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), this chronology is provided as an aid to understanding the context of the records contained in this collection. 1772 First Methodist preaching in North Carolina at Currituck Court House in northea...

Carr, Jo

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Bettye Jo Crisler (who went by Jo) was born September 29, 1926 in Greenville, Mississippi. She was the only child of Joseph Neal Crisler and Bessie Esther Gilley Crisler. In 1929, Joseph took a job with the USDA Department of Entomology, and the family moved to El Paso, Texas. Since Joseph’s job involved pest control, the family constantly moved across the south following the pink boll worm. Therefore, Crisler grew up in El Paso, Texas, Lordsburg and Homestead, Florida, and numerous...