Adelaide Grier Folensbee

Adelaide Grier Folensbee Adelaide Grier Folensbee of Berryville, Va., 75, died Monday, Oct. 7, 2002, in Winchester, Va. The service will be at 10 a.m. EDT Friday at Berryville Presbyterian Church, with burial at Green Hill Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Richmond Peace Education Center, 14 N. Laurel St., Richmond, VA 23220, or to Berryville Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 46, Berryville, VA 22611- 0046. Enders & Shirley Funeral Home in Berryville (540-955-1062) is handling arrangements. The daughter of Joseph Lee and Ruth Morrison Grier, she was born in Staunton, Va. She graduated from Erskine College, Due West, S.C., with a bachelor's degree in science; from Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J., with a master's of divinity; from Florida State University with a master's in education; and from Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Richmond, with a doctorate in education. A retired Christian educator, she lived in Berryville with her daughter, Susan Ellen, for the past three years . While raising her children, she served as a house mother at Murree School for Missionary Children, Murree, Pakistan; director of Christian education in various Presbyterian churches; coordinator for continuing education at Pensacola Junior College; and volunteer in missions in charge of elder hostels at Montreat Retreat Center, Black Mountain, N.C. She was acting director of the Richmond Peace Education Center before moving to Berryville. She had served on the board of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy and as an elder at Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, Richmond, where she lived for many years. She most recently had served as elder at Berryville Presbyterian Church and the leader of its Wednesday Bible Study, a member of the choir and a teacher of an adult Sunday school class. She had served as a FISH volunteer in Berryville since she moved here and was a volunteer at the Clarke County Library. She is survived by two brothers, Calvin Knox Grier of New Orleans and Joseph Lee Grier Jr. of Naperville, Ill.; three children, Rowland Wickes Folensbee Jr. of Houston, Barbara Folensbee-Moore of Silver Spring, Md., and Susan Ellen Skinner of Berryville; and seven grandchildren.