Pike Powers Obituary – Mary Groves Powers Mary Groves Powers was conceived October 3, 1915, in Asheville, NC, to John Alexander Groves and Rhetta Ann McElreath Groves and kicked the bucket on May 1, 2008. She went to Sullins in Bristol, VA, and at 18 years old, acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude with three majors from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. It was there she met John Pike Powers III. They marry in 1937 and honeymooned in Havana, Cuba. Mary and Pike were hitched 56 years at the hour of his passing in 1993.
The couple moved to Beaumont in 1950 and started a long residency of municipal inclusion including enrollment as one of the10 establishing groups of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. She was dynamic numerous years in the congregation’s Altar Guild and filled in as the previous leader of Women of St. Stephen’s, of which she was program director for a considerable length of time. Mary likewise was committed to a few chronicled and social associations. For a long time, she chipped in as a docent at the French Trading Post and the McFaddin-Ward House and was an individual from the Gallery Guild of the previous Beaumont Art Museum.
She was a sanctioned individual from the Progressive Study Club, an individual from the Symphony League, the Beaumont Heritage Society, and the Texas Gulf Historical Society. Serving over 15 years on the Jefferson County Historical Commission, of which she was a part emeritus until her demise, she composed the district’s set of experiences to give a chronicled marker at the town hall downtown. At the point when her youngsters were youthful, Mary was dynamic in the Cub Scouts, Campfire Girls, PTA and frequently filled in as a room mother. She later showed English and history at All Saints Day School, Stephen F. Austin Junior High School, and Beaumont and French secondary schools.
She was an individual from numerous expert educators’ associations, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (Houston), and the Tyrrell Historical Library Association. She served on the leading body of the League of Women Voters and was dynamic in the Chi Omega graduated class section of Beaumont, for which filled in as president in 1966. A long-lasting individual from Milady Garden Club, she won many prizes for her decorative designs. She wanted to travel and visit 59 far-off nations.