BERRY, EVA BELLE, 1905-1957

Biography:

Church and denominational administrator; secretary.  Born– January 6, 1905, Bellfactory, Madison County. Parents– Ephraim Jack and Martha Gemima Bouldin Berry.  Education– Howard College, A.B., 1930; Woman’s Missionary Union Training School in Louisville, Ky.  Church secretary for two churches; Birmingham Association WMU Young People’s secretary, 1933; Alabama WMU  Young People’s secretary, Alabama, 1934-1943; field worker, WMU, Missouri, 1944-1947; executive secretary, WMU, Missouri, 1947-1954; worked with the Broadway Plan of Church Finance in the Southern Baptist General Convention of California, 1954-1956; executive secretary of the Kansas Woman’s Missionary Union, 1957.

Source:

Southern Baptist Encyclopedia and Eljee Bentley, Archivist of the Woman’s Missionary Union, Birmingham, Ala.

Publication(s):

Labor of Love through Alabama Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union, 1899-1939. S.l.; Alabama Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union, 1940.