Service held for widow of former PSCE president
03/28/2008
Beryl Elizabeth Birdsong Kraemer, 98, widow of Charles E.S.
Kraemer, who was president of the Presbyterian
School
of Christian Education (now Union-PSCE), died March 1 in Charlotte,
N.C. A memorial
service was held March 19 at First
Church
in Charlotte.
Mrs.
Kraemer grew up in Greenville,
Texas,
and received a teaching certificate from East Texas State Teacher’s College in
Commerce, Texas.
She and Dr. Kraemer were married in 1932. They served churches in Kentucky,
Missouri,
Mississippi,
and North Carolina
before moving to Richmond,
Va. during his
years at PSCE. In retirement, the Kraemers settled in Charlotte.
Dr. Kraemer
was president of PSCE 1954-1974. During his tenure, in 1959, the name of the
school changed to PSCE from The
General Assembly’s Training School (ATS) for Lay Workers.
Survivors
include two sons and a daughter: Frederick Birdsong Kraemer and Charles
Phillips Kraemer, both of Raleigh,
N.C., and Harriet
Jane Kraemer Scott of Kingsport,
Tenn.;
four grandchildren.