Lucy Gist, who recently moved
into Apartment 4, enjoys life to the full. She has a great good
time wherever she is. In deaconess meetings, one can occasionally
hear her delightful bursting laughter. She is a great delight to
many here.Lucy was born in Wyoming and grew up in North Carolina. Her father was a minister. She graduated from Southern Methodist University, and worked for two years with the Red Cross in California. She knew she wanted to work in a helping way with people, and she wanted to work with the church. A friend advised her to look into Scarritt. She went and has never regretted it.
When she was eleven, Lucy knew a deaconess, who apparently set a pattern for her. At Scarritt, it was Alice Murdock who suggested that she herself become a deaconess. Lucy says, “The best thing I ever did was to become a deaconess.” She was commissioned on June 14, 1950, along with resident Helene R. Hill at St. Paul and St. Andrew Methodist Church in New York City. When she lived in New York in recent years, she attended this church.
Lucy worked for twenty-seven years with Bethlehem Centers, in Fort Worth and in Charlotte, North Carolina. She lived in Korea for two years. Asked about a highlight of those years of work, Lucy simply said, “so many wonderful friends.” During these years Lucy was granted an Honorary Degree of Humanities from Pfeiffer College. She appreciated the opportunity to serve--“I loved it all!” In more recent years she worked in New York in the Office of Community Centers of the General Board of Global Ministries.
Coming to Brooks-Howell was “inevitable”; she has been especially impressed with the “fellowship, the beauty, the caring.” She wants to thank all for being so helpful and considerate and welcoming.