Agnes Kirkland Hall Poindexter McBride

Agnes Kirkland Hall Poindexter McBride, 82, of Beaufort, SC passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on 5 June 2013. She was born October 12, 1930 to Professor Robert G. and Agnes K. Hall of Cuthbert, GA. She graduated from Cuthbert High School in 1946 and subsequently from Andrew College in Cuthbert. She went on to complete a four year degree in 1950 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, majoring in Home Economics. In 1966, she received a Master's Degree in Educational Administration from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She is survived by her daughter Marian E. Poindexter (Raymond S.) Rollings of Beaufort, SC and her son Donald A. (Judith W.) Poindexter of Tallahassee, FL, grandsons Scott D. Poindexter of Ft Myers, FL, Nathaniel W. Rollings of West Point, NY, Jeramy R. (Melanie S.) Rollings of Pearl, MS, and stepdaughters Lucy M. (Joe) Johnson of Tuscaloosa and Edwina McBride MacFarlane of Santa Fe, NM, as well as several nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Rev. A.M. (Mack) Poindexter and E.E. (Ed) McBride, sister Dr. Elizabeth H. Garrison, and brothers Robert G. Hall III and Lt. M. Warren Hall. She began her career teaching school in Shellman, GA and Cuthbert, GA and later was a teaching principal in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. In 1965 she was appointed Child Nutrition Program Coordinator for the Tuscaloosa County School System, a position she held until her retirement in 1989. She was an innovator in the use of personal computers for accounting and tracking funds and commodities in the school food service industry. She taught numerous seminars, workshops, and classes across Alabama and the Southeastern U.S. on diverse topics relating to child nutrition, food safety, work simplification, and computerized food service accounting procedures. She was dedicated to her "lunchroom ladies" and worked for better remuneration and retirement benefits for school food service workers across the state of Alabama. A life-long Baptist, she was active in the life of a local Baptist church wherever she lived. She was a long-time Sunday School teacher and sanctuary choir member. She participated in many church-related activities for the benefit of the local community and was a member of the trained Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief Team. In retirement, she was passionate about travel, family activities, sewing, quilting, and genealogy. She was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution (serving as the regent and registrar of the Chief Tuskaloosa DAR Chapter), Tuscaloosa County Genealogy Society, Friends of the Library, and West Alabama Quilt Guild. A funeral service will be held on Monday, June 10, 2013 at 10:00am in the Shellman First Baptist Church in Shellman, GA with the Rev. Matt Hall officiating and directed by Lunsford Funeral Home of Cuthbert, GA. Interment will follow in the Eastview Cemetery in Cuthbert, GA. Ms. McBride will be placed in the Church one hour prior to the service from 9:00 -10:00 am. You may sign the family's guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the local arrangements.