BERKEY, Carolyn Eileen MILLER

BERKEY, MILLER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/26/2007 at 10:30:20

"The Fairfield Ledger", Wednesday, February 14, 2007, Page 10

Carolyn Eileen MILLER BERKEY -- Carolyn Eileen MILLER BERKEY, of South Hadley, Mass., died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, while visiting family in North Carolina.

A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Congregational Church in South Hadley.

A reception will be from 4-6 p.m. Saturday at the Village Center of Loomis Village, Mass.

Memorials may be made to the Class of 1952 Scholarship Fund, care of Office of Advancement, Maryville College, Maryville, TN 37804.

Mrs. BERKEY was born Aug. 9, 1931, in Cairo, Egypt.

Mrs. BERKEY grew up in various Midwestern college towns, including Fairfield where she lived as a teen. She graduated from Fairfield High School in 1948. After attending Maryville College in Tennessee, she spent four years in Asyut, Egypt, teaching English in a girls' school connected with the Presbyterian church. She earned a master's degree at Hartford Seminary. After her husband completed his doctorate, they moved to South Hadley, where he taught at Mount Holyoke College.

Mrs. BERKEY served as director of Christian education at First Congregational Church and then as executive director of the YWCA. After leaving the YWCA for her family to spend a sabbatical year in Cambridge, England, Mrs. BERKEY held a series of positions at Mount Holyoke College, first in the development office and then as executive director of the alumnae association, from which she retired in 1988. She had been resident of Loomis Villages for several years.

She had been a member of Junior League, the Thursday Club, First Congregational Church and various groups at Mount Holyoke and Loomis Villages.

She enjoyed traveling.

Survivors include two sons, Jonathan of Davidson, N.C., and Mark of Richland, Wash., and four grandchildren.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

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