Virginia Douglas: b. 1932, d. 2025

A remembrance by Jeremy Shipp:
"Although my time with Virginia Douglas was relatively brief, she made herself a friend to me when I was first singing with the Epworth group in the mid-2000s. She took me to my first Sacred Harp singing (the National Convention in Birmingham), and she drove my new wife and me around Knoxville to look at neighborhoods to settle in when we moved back from Atlanta. She cared about how old harp singing was done, and in those early years she would frequently admonish me for leading songs that neither I nor the group knew, for singing too loud, for singing off key. Kathleen first taught me, Odis was the voice in my ear, Larry O gave encouragement, but Virginia Douglas was the coach who was hard on me but who I knew cared about me and was molding me to be a better singer and a better servant to the tradition."

Special mentions at singings

• 2017: Jubilee Festival
• 2015: Greene County
• 2011: Kathy Jones Memorial
• 2006: Greene County

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