Time Period: Sydnor Years

“I’m going to be talking with you now about what happens in our worship, especially in our eucharistic worship”

John Newton Pearce, 84, died Monday, October 14, 2019. His funeral was at St. George’s on Oct 21

The interview was done for 300th anniversary celebration of St. George’s parish. This is an oral history with Elizabeth Roberson who was secretary at St. George’s Episcopal Church, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1959 – 1996.

This is an oral history with the Reverend Charles R. Sydnor, Jr., assistant rector, 1973 – 1976 and rector 1976 – 2003 done by Beth Daly with Barbara and Mac Willis

Photos to accompany Charles Sydnor oral history, circa 1995-2000’s

St. George’s tried 3 times to create a columbarium from 1982 to 2010 and failed. The image above was the last effort in 2008. However, the ultimate idea to resume burying parishioners at the church did resume in the form of a scatter garden.

In the May 2001 newsletter Charles Sydnor wrote the following statement on the death penalty Dear Friends in Christ, The vestry and I have been discussing possible responses to a call for a moratorium on the death penalty in Virginia. We believe our mandate to have such discussions comes from our Baptismal Covenant in which … Read more

A vigil for world peace at the outset of the war with Iran in 2003 to unseat Saddam Hussein.

Carrol Quenzel lists the number of communicants at St. George’s from 1813-1951 in Appendix B in his history of St. George’s. This article brings the numbers current and considers 8 different periods of communicant growth or decline during St. George’s history.

In 2017, was the space something new? No, it was brought up 30 years earlier in 1986. The discussion intensified in the Dannals years with the renovation and into the Hensley years.