Mrs. Carolyn Harmon

Carolyn Harmon --Planned Giving Coordinator 4435 Newport Highway Greeneville, TN 37743 Phone: 423-639-3037
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Carolyn began as the Planned Giving Coordinator for the board in the Presbyteries of East Tennessee and Tennessee-Georgia in February of 2000.

Carolyn is a member, elder and session clerk of the Cedar Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Greeneville, Tennessee. She served as the denomination's CPW President in 1995 and now serves on the board of trustees for the Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home.

Carolyn retired in April of 2002 as Senior Secretary of the UT Agricultural Extension Service after working there for 32 1/2 years. Carolyn and her husband Richard have two daughters, Sarah Laws and Scarlett Renner and one grandson Joshua Renner.

Carolyn Harmon is a member of the Cedar Hill church who has been involved in the Thanksgiving outreach since 1996.

"I've got two 20-pound turkeys in the oven right now," she said during a Wednesday afternoon telephone interview.

Harmon said her plans for Thanksgiving morning were to "get up early, make a bunch of gravy, and head for the church."

All the food will be cooked in homes, or in other churches, she said, including all the turkeys."The ladies in all those churches are cooking them."

Both of the turkeys she was cooking Wednesday were for the church deliveries, she said.Harmon said she plans to help with the packing, but doesn't plan to eat while she's working.

"For some reason, you get so involved in it that you don't eat," Harmon said, though she acknowledged that she might take time for a piece of pie sometime during the day, to tide her over until she gets to her sister's home this evening for her family's Thanksgiving meal.

Usually ‘Need Is Obvious'

Harmon said that experience has taught the church that the need for Thanksgiving meals is great.

She said people sometimes ask her, "Isn't it abused?"and she concedes that some people - a few - may take advantage of this annual outpouring of Christian generosity.

"There are people you know don't need it," she said, but Harmon said she'll try to have a good attitude and leave the sorting to the Lord, because in most cases, the need is obvious.

"Last year, the drivers took food back to some of the poorest places, for supper," Harmon said, because they could see, or suspected, that the family they were bringing the holiday meal to had little else on hand.

Mrs. Carolyn Harmon, Secretary

Carolyn Harmon, Nolachucky, SE Synod - 2009 Past Officer