{"id":1588,"date":"2013-12-03T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T21:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2018-08-15T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:34:21","slug":"law-virginia-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"LAW, VIRGINIA, 1923-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Missionary, lecturer; denominational leader. Born&#8211; July 4, 1923, Dothan. Parents&#8211; Clinton and Margaret (Stokes) Williams. Married&#8211; Burleigh A. Law. Children&#8211; Three. Married&#8211;Donald L. Shell. \u00a0Education&#8211; Asbury College, 1941-1942, 1947-1948; Florida State University, B.S., 1962; Scarritt College, M.A., 1966. Methodist missionary, the Congo, 1950-1964; returned to the U.S. after the death of her husband, a missionary pilot, in 1964. Became a leader in the Good News Movement of the United Methodist Church.\u00a0 Died January 12, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of American Women, 1970.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appointment Congo. New York; Rand-McNally, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>As Far As I Can Step. Waco, Tex.; Word Books, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Come On, Let&#8217;s Pray!; Prayers for Personal and Family Worship. Nashville; Upper Room, 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Missionary, lecturer; denominational leader. Born&#8211; July 4, 1923, Dothan. Parents&#8211; Clinton and Margaret (Stokes) Williams. Married&#8211; Burleigh A. Law. Children&#8211; Three. Married&#8211;Donald L. Shell. \u00a0Education&#8211; Asbury College, 1941-1942, 1947-1948; Florida State University, B.S., 1962; Scarritt College, M.A., 1966. Methodist missionary, the Congo, 1950-1964; returned to the U.S. after the death of her husband, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8628,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/8628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}