ANNETTE HASELTINE DONAVANT COLTRANE FORDHAM

GREENSBORO — On May 2, 2012, Annette Haseltine Donavant Coltrane Fordham, died at Friends Homes At Guilford. where she had been a resident since September 15, 1995. Ms. Fordham was born August 26, 1912,in Greensboro, Guilford County, NC, to John William Donavant and Cornelia Elizabeth Snyder Donavant. She graduated from Greensboro High School in 1929 and was President of her Senior Class. She next undertook undergraduate studies at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC, and graduated in 1934, where she again was elected President of her Senior Class. She obtained a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC (UNC), and began her distinguished professional career with the Guilford County

Office of Emergency Relief. Over the ensuing decades, she became Executive Director of several high-profile organizations, including the High Point Chapter of the American Red Cross, the USO-Travelers Aid for officers and personnel at the Overseas Replacement Depot (during World War II), the Greensboro Community Council, the Director of Services for the Aged and Disabled in the Guilford Welfare Department, which became a model for similar organizations throughout North Carolina and the initial Director of the Greensboro Developmental/Evaluation Clinic. Ms. Fordham was a member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.

In 1934, she married William Homer Coltrane, who had been born and raised in Trinity, NC, and had graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. At the time of his death in 1952, they had two daughters, Cornelia Coltrane Bocchini (Dr. Richard), who died in 2009, and Gray Coltrane Boehm (Jeff). She subsequently married Woodrow Fordham. She was predeceased by her brother, George Philip Donavant. Survivors include her sister, Helen Donavant Wolff, also a resident of Friends Homes at Guilford, her granddaughter, Lisa Bocchini Cogan of Brooklyn, NY, a grandson, Paul Bocchini of New York, grandsons, Jeff Boehm, Jr., Andrew Boehm and Kevin Boehm, and great-grandchildren, William Kinkaid Boehm and Aislin Donavant Boehm, all of Chattanooga, TN. A funeral service will be held a Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.