THOMASVILLE- Three members of the John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, attended the fall Board of Management meeting of the Georgia Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century in Macon, Georgia, at the Idle Hour Country Club, established in 1912. The members of the chapter attending were Kathy S. Mills, Vice President, Mary Margaret Quiggle, Recording Secretary, and Jinanne B. Parrish, President.

Among the fifty-one attendees were three Honorary State Presidents, Robin R. Towns, Sherrill T. Miles, and Amelia R. Pelton. Another honored guest was Janet B. Walker, President General, National Huguenot Society, who will preside over the 88th National Huguenot Society Congress in Macon in October. There were also ten state officers, ten chapter officers, and eleven chapter presidents in attendance.

Phyllis H. King, Georgia Society President, presided over the meeting. State officers and state chairmen presented reports. State Marking Chairman, Sandi Driskill, and State President King presented to the John Lee of Nansemond Chapter a $500 award to be used toward the cost of the historic marker for Bishop’s Jewelry in Cairo, Georgia, to be marked November 10, 2023.

One of President King’s projects is to assist homeless women veterans and their children through United Military Care which provides Georgia veterans with food, shelter, and hope. The John Lee of Nansemond Chapter donated needed items valued at $233.27.

The National Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century is a lineage society for women, age eighteen and over, and have a proven ancestor who colonized one of the thirteen original colonies before 1701. The Georgia Society consists of over 700 members in 22 chapters.