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Christine Margaret McDermott
Posted 9/4/07
Christine Margaret McDermott, 60 MOORE COUNTY, N.C. - Christine Margaret McDermott of the Spies community in Moore County died Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007, at her home. She was 60. A memorial service will …
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Christine Margaret McDermott
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Christine Margaret McDermott, 60
MOORE COUNTY, N.C. - Christine Margaret McDermott of the Spies community in Moore County died Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007, at her home. She was 60.
A memorial service will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the West End Presbyterian Church, West End. Dr. Larry Lyon will preside.
Ms. McDermott was born in Fort Bragg to the late Margaret (Presthofer) and Col. Gregory McDermott.
She and her family lived in Southern Pines during her early years and later in Carmel, Calif., Tokyo, Japan, and New Castle County, Del.
She received her education at Alexis I. du Pont High School, the University of Delaware and Dickinson School of Law.
Ms. McDermott devoted a large part of her career to aiding victims of child abuse and domestic violence.
Originally assigned as a civil attorney, she became assistant city solicitor for the city of Wilmington, Del., and was chief prosecutor for the Wilmington Municipal Court.
In 1976, she was appointed executive director of the Delaware Criminal Justice Planning Commission, the state planning agency for the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program.
From 1982 through 1988, Ms. McDermott was a lecturer at the University of Delaware and became an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice for the Department of Sociology. During a portion of those years she was executive director of the Delaware Council on Crime and Justice, which was originally formed as a prisoners" aid program and was later expanded to include system advocacy and victims" rights.
Ms. McDermott taught at Widener University School of Law from 1988 until she retired as an associate professor in 2004. During that period she was executive director of, and consultant to, Delaware Volunteer Legal Services, which is the pro bono arm of the Delaware Bar Association.
Just prior to retiring and moving to North Carolina, she taught Comparative Issues in Gender Violence at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
In 1981, Gov. Pierre S. duPont IV appointed her to the Governor"s Council on Correction. She sat on numerous other national, statewide and citywide task forces, including tenure as chair of the advisory group to Delaware Family Violence Program, which founded the Battered Women"s Shelter.
In 1999, she was recipient of the Women"s Leadership Award of the Delaware State Bar Association.
She was on the board of directors of the YWCA of New Castle County from 1979 through 1985, serving as president, third vice-president and chair of several committees.
As a retiree in North Carolina, Ms. McDermott taught part-time at Randolph County Community College and soon returned to full-time employment at the Randolph Family Crisis Center, where she was executive director until spring of 2007.
In Delaware, Ms. McDermott attended Westminster Presbyterian Church and sang in the choir. She was a member of the board of trustees from 1998 until 2003. She served as president of the board of directors of the New Castle Presbytery.
In North Carolina, she attended West End Presbyterian Church and sang in the choir.
She also sang with the University of Delaware Alumni Choir and the Moore County Choral Society.
As Westmoore precinct chair, she sat on the executive committee of the Moore County Democratic Party.
Ms. McDermott is survived by her daughters, Dr. Cynthia Harker of Shady Side, Md., and Beth Harker of New York; her sisters, Carolyn McDermott and her husband Fred Shuker, and MaryAlice McDermott, all of Spies, and Ellen McDermott of Greenwood, Del.; a brother, Hank McDermott of Lahaina, Hawaii; two nieces; two nephews; three great-nephews; and one great-niece.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the West End Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 13, West End, NC 27376; or to Delaware Volunteer Legal Services, P.O. Box 7306, Wilmington DE 19803.
Boles Funeral Home in Seven Lakes is assisting the family.
MOORE COUNTY, N.C. - Christine Margaret McDermott of the Spies community in Moore County died Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007, at her home. She was 60.
A memorial service will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the West End Presbyterian Church, West End. Dr. Larry Lyon will preside.
Ms. McDermott was born in Fort Bragg to the late Margaret (Presthofer) and Col. Gregory McDermott.
She and her family lived in Southern Pines during her early years and later in Carmel, Calif., Tokyo, Japan, and New Castle County, Del.
She received her education at Alexis I. du Pont High School, the University of Delaware and Dickinson School of Law.
Ms. McDermott devoted a large part of her career to aiding victims of child abuse and domestic violence.
Originally assigned as a civil attorney, she became assistant city solicitor for the city of Wilmington, Del., and was chief prosecutor for the Wilmington Municipal Court.
In 1976, she was appointed executive director of the Delaware Criminal Justice Planning Commission, the state planning agency for the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program.
From 1982 through 1988, Ms. McDermott was a lecturer at the University of Delaware and became an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice for the Department of Sociology. During a portion of those years she was executive director of the Delaware Council on Crime and Justice, which was originally formed as a prisoners" aid program and was later expanded to include system advocacy and victims" rights.
Ms. McDermott taught at Widener University School of Law from 1988 until she retired as an associate professor in 2004. During that period she was executive director of, and consultant to, Delaware Volunteer Legal Services, which is the pro bono arm of the Delaware Bar Association.
Just prior to retiring and moving to North Carolina, she taught Comparative Issues in Gender Violence at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
In 1981, Gov. Pierre S. duPont IV appointed her to the Governor"s Council on Correction. She sat on numerous other national, statewide and citywide task forces, including tenure as chair of the advisory group to Delaware Family Violence Program, which founded the Battered Women"s Shelter.
In 1999, she was recipient of the Women"s Leadership Award of the Delaware State Bar Association.
She was on the board of directors of the YWCA of New Castle County from 1979 through 1985, serving as president, third vice-president and chair of several committees.
As a retiree in North Carolina, Ms. McDermott taught part-time at Randolph County Community College and soon returned to full-time employment at the Randolph Family Crisis Center, where she was executive director until spring of 2007.
In Delaware, Ms. McDermott attended Westminster Presbyterian Church and sang in the choir. She was a member of the board of trustees from 1998 until 2003. She served as president of the board of directors of the New Castle Presbytery.
In North Carolina, she attended West End Presbyterian Church and sang in the choir.
She also sang with the University of Delaware Alumni Choir and the Moore County Choral Society.
As Westmoore precinct chair, she sat on the executive committee of the Moore County Democratic Party.
Ms. McDermott is survived by her daughters, Dr. Cynthia Harker of Shady Side, Md., and Beth Harker of New York; her sisters, Carolyn McDermott and her husband Fred Shuker, and MaryAlice McDermott, all of Spies, and Ellen McDermott of Greenwood, Del.; a brother, Hank McDermott of Lahaina, Hawaii; two nieces; two nephews; three great-nephews; and one great-niece.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the West End Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 13, West End, NC 27376; or to Delaware Volunteer Legal Services, P.O. Box 7306, Wilmington DE 19803.
Boles Funeral Home in Seven Lakes is assisting the family.
