Sarah Matheson
(1901-1996)

Died aged c. 95

Sarah Matheson was born in 1901, attended the North Carolina College for Women, and received her graduate degree from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. She then became a missionary. She came to Gainesville in 1945, the birthplace of her husband. In Gainesville she became active in the First Presbyterian Church and served on local, state and national boards for interfaith organizations. She was also active in Presbyterian missionary and training programs. Matheson was president of Women of the Church, Synod of Florida and moderator of the Suwannee Presbyterian, attending the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1970 as the only woman commissioner from Florida. Her travels took her twice around the globe, to Columbia, Jamaica and Korea. Sarah Matheson died in 1996.

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