From St. Louis-
In 1967, the Episcopal bishop of Missouri said it was time to put a stop to the church's segregation of women. "There's no biological or theological reason why women" shouldn't serve, then-Bishop George L. Cadigan said. He urged that women be allowed as delegates at the church's General Conventions.
Three years later, Jane Black and 28 other women were officially seated as delegates to the 1970 General Convention. Mrs. Black died Sunday (Nov. 1, 2009) at the Gatesworth in University City.
She was 93, and had been a resident of Clayton. Jane Jordan was born in St. Louis in 1916. She watched Charles Lindbergh pass her house in a ticker tape parade after his 1927 solo flight over the Atlantic. She remembered placing second in a citywide dance contest behind classmate and friend Betty Grable, who left St. Louis to begin an acting career in Hollywood.
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