Ezell, Catherine

Catherine Ezell (1913-1998) was a deaconess in the Methodist Church. She attended Central College (Missouri) from 1931-1933 and received her B. A. (1941) and M.A. (1951) from Scarritt College (Tennessee). Ezell taught in Missouri public schools from 1935 to 1939 and was commissioned a deaconess in 1940. From 1941 to 1945 she did rural church and community work in the Missouri Conference. In 1946 Ezell became the superintendent of Scarritt College's Rural Center in Crossville, Tennessee. She went to Hawaii in 1951-1954 to continue her work with rural churches and communities and became the superintendent of students at the Scarritt College in Hawaii. In 1954 Ezell was appointed the coordinator of a Georgia Rural Work program, and in 1955 she worked in Johnson City, Tennessee, with the Holston Valley Rural Work program. She served on the faculty of National College (Missouri) from 1959-1964 and was an assistant professor of rural work at Central College beginning in 1964.