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- The Charlotte Observer
March 3, 2006
Mary Alice Nuessner Loring
Mary Loring died Saturday, February 25, 2006 from old age at Southminster Retirement Community.
She was 93 years old, and in her final days, she was surrounded by her family singing Freedom songs and hymns of thanksgiving. 57 years ago she and her beloved husband, Harold A. Loring (d. 1985), traveled uphill from the black water, low country of SC to begin a new life in Charlotte, NC.
Already the fruits of their love and passion where on the move: Carol Zeigler Loring, who is giving her life to the care of the elderly, and Eduard N. Loring, Christian Human Rights Activist.
The two primary places of Mary and Harold's lives were their love drenched home at 3021 Hanson Drive and the great and liberal Myers Park Baptist Church where Mary was on the staff for years.
Born in Greenville, SC, educated at Winthrop College, a leader in the YWCA movement with a particular concern for Black-White relationships, she once hosted George Washington Carver on the Winthrop campus in the 1930s. A supporter of the anti-war candidacy of Eugene McCarty in 1968, she earlier drove 120 miles in the rain to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in the-mid 1960s calling for a revolution of values. In addition to her wild son and tender daughter she awaits the homecoming of her grandchildren: Neely Loring, Scott Loring Bianchi, Mary Susan Loring, Shannon Bianchi, Mary Margaret (Meg) Bianchi Larson, and Hannah Loring-Davis and very great grandson: John Thomas Loring.
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