Then she took a job as education director for a Baptist church, then worked as a dean of women at a Baptist college in West Virginia. She also taught psychology classes. Strange for a Southern Baptist woman?
Addie’s own psychology remains puzzling. She never married. In writings about her, the subject just doesn’t come up. Just once, I find, in a 2004 newspaper profile, she was asked if she’d wanted to marry.
She replied: “I could have married, but looking back, I’m glad I had the time to spend with my people.” That was it.