She was a Pillar of Strength and a Precious Woman
Caroline was born in Danville, Virginia on December 21, 1925, and died April 17, 2008. She was the daughter of Wayles Randolph Harrison and Sue Brown Harrison. She was predeceased by her husband, Frederic M. Newton, and is survived by her son, Frederic M. Newton, Jr., and his wife, Louise Cook Newton, of Amherst, Virginia, her daughter, Caroline Newton Frazier, and her husband, W. Robinson Frazier, III, of Jacksonville, Florida, and her son, James Harrison Newton, and his wife, Susan Conrad Newton, of Chapel Hill, NC, and by ten grandchildren and one great-grandson. She is also survived by her sisters, Sue Harrison Zauke and Mae Harrison Moore, and brothers-in-law, Max D. Zauke, Russell B. Newton, Jr., and J. Edward Newton.
Mrs. Newton happily spent her childhood and adolescent years in Danville. She attended Stratford Hall Preparatory School in Danville, Gulf Park College in Long Beach, Mississippi, and The Mills School of Columbia University in New York. In 1957, she and her husband Fred and his brother Russell and their respective young families moved from Danville to Jacksonville in order for Fred and Russell to enter the retail petroleum distribution business. Mrs. Newton served on boards at St. Johns Terrace, The Speech and Hearing Center and St. Catherine’s Laboure’ Manor and was a member of the Colonial Dames and Watsonia Garden Circle. She helped pioneer a remedial program for dyslexic children with Dr. Richard Skinner during the 1960’s. For many years, Mrs. Newton was a pastoral care Lay Eucharistic Minister at St. Marks Episcopal Church serving as a tireless and devoted volunteer in many other capacities until the time of her death.
Mrs. Newton was born and reared in Danville, Va. She moved to Jacksonville in 1957 when her husband entered the retail petroleum distribution business, Charter Oil Co. Mrs. Newton was a tireless volunteer at her church, St. Mark’s Episcopal. The Rev. Barnum McCarty, who retired as the church’s rector 12 years ago, remembered Mrs. Newton “as a true lady who had class but was down to earth. I could not have asked for a more faithful and dependable servant of the Lord.” Mrs. Newton was trained as a lay eucharistic minister and on Sundays would take Holy Communion from the altar to serve to the sick and shut-ins of the parish. She also was part of the church’s Stephens Ministry, a one-on-one encouragement, support and prayer program for church members going through ...
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She was a Pillar of Strength and a Precious Woman
Caroline was born in Danville, Virginia on December 21, 1925, and died April 17, 2008. She was the daughter of Wayles Randolph Harrison and Sue Brown Harrison. She was predeceased by her husband, Frederic M. Newton, and is survived by her son, Frederic M. Newton, Jr., and his wife, Louise Cook Newton, of Amherst, Virginia, her daughter, Caroline Newton Frazier, and her husband, W. Robinson Frazier, III, of Jacksonville, Florida, and her son, James Harrison Newton, and his wife, Susan Conrad Newton, of Chapel Hill, NC, and by ten grandchildren and one great-grandson. She is also survived by her sisters, Sue Harrison Zauke and Mae Harrison Moore, and brothers-in-law, Max D. Zauke, Russell B. Newton, Jr., and J. Edward Newton.
Mrs. Newton happily spent her childhood and adolescent years in Danville. She attended Stratford Hall Preparatory School in Danville, Gulf Park College in Long Beach, Mississippi, and The Mills School of Columbia University in New York. In 1957, she and her husband Fred and his brother Russell and their respective young families moved from Danville to Jacksonville in order for Fred and Russell to enter the retail petroleum distribution business. Mrs. Newton served on boards at St. Johns Terrace, The Speech and Hearing Center and St. Catherine’s Laboure’ Manor and was a member of the Colonial Dames and Watsonia Garden Circle. She helped pioneer a remedial program for dyslexic children with Dr. Richard Skinner during the 1960’s. For many years, Mrs. Newton was a pastoral care Lay Eucharistic Minister at St. Marks Episcopal Church serving as a tireless and devoted volunteer in many other capacities until the time of her death.
Mrs. Newton was born and reared in Danville, Va. She moved to Jacksonville in 1957 when her husband entered the retail petroleum distribution business, Charter Oil Co. Mrs. Newton was a tireless volunteer at her church, St. Mark’s Episcopal. The Rev. Barnum McCarty, who retired as the church’s rector 12 years ago, remembered Mrs. Newton “as a true lady who had class but was down to earth. I could not have asked for a more faithful and dependable servant of the Lord.” Mrs. Newton was trained as a lay eucharistic minister and on Sundays would take Holy Communion from the altar to serve to the sick and shut-ins of the parish. She also was part of the church’s Stephens Ministry, a one-on-one encouragement, support and prayer program for church members going through life crises. “Caroline had a very loving and caring way about her,” McCarty said. Retired pediatrician Richard G. Skinner Jr. remembered Mrs. Newton as one of the first tutors for a program he set up in the 1960s to help dyslexic primary grade students learn to read at a time when the public school system provided very little in the area of special education. “Caroline was a pioneer with our program,” Skinner said. “She would work one-on-one with a child for one hour three days a week in the afternoons. We had the program for about 16 years.” Caroline Frazier, Mrs. Newton’s daughter who also lives in Jacksonville, said her mother was a selfless, humble person who gave of herself to the community quietly without wanting recognition. “I saw women who wanted to have their name in lights, so to speak, but not Mother,” Frazier said. “She never measured her success by any outward approval but by how much she could serve the individual.” Mrs. Newton served on the boards of St. Johns Terrace, the Speech and Hearing Center and St. Catherine Laboure Manor and was a member of the Colonial Dames and Watsonia Garden Circle. Her husband, Frederic M. Newton, died in 1971 after 21 years of marriage. In addition to her daughter, she is survived by her sons, Frederic M. Newton Jr. of Amherst, Va., and James H. Newton of Chapel Hill, N.C.; two sisters, Sue Harrison Zauke of Ponte Vedra Beach and Mae Harrison Moore of Roanoke, Va.; 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was 82 and died of a bacterial infection contracted when she was hospitalized after suffering a stroke in February, her daughter said. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at 4129 Oxford Ave. in Jacksonville, followed by a reception in the church’s Leatherbury Hall. Burial will be private. Services will be held at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 4129 Oxford Avenue at 11:00 a.m. on April 21, 2008. Honorary pallbearers will be her nephews, Russell B. Newton, III, Matthew K. Newton, William T. Newton, J. Edward Newton, Jr., Victor M. Dandridge, III, Wayles H. Dandridge, William R. Dandridge, J. Landon Moore, W. Randolph Harrison, III, and Harrison R. Zauke. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 4129 Oxford Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32210, The Wayles R. Harrison Memorial Fund, P. O. Box 2687, Danville, VA 24541 or Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, 4114 Sunbeam Road, Suite 101, Jacksonville, FL 32257. Funeral arrangements are by the Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home, Edgewood Chapel. 388-2711 Please Sign the Guestbook @ Jacksonville.com
The family suggests memorials to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 4129 Oxford Ave., Jacksonville, FL 32210; the Wayles R. Harrison Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 2687, Danville, VA 24541 or Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, 4114 Sunbeam Road, Suite 101, Jacksonville, FL 32257.
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