Charlotte Easley Reeder Shaw, of Raleigh, N.C., formerly of Clarksville, died June 16, 2008, at Wake Medical Center, in Raleigh. She was 84.

She was born Nov. 21, 1923, in Louisville, Ky., to John Allen and Eleanor Robertson Easley. When she was 5, she and her family moved to Wake Forest, N.C., in order for her father to take a position as minister of Wake Forest Baptist Church.

She graduated from Wake Forest High School in 1940.

In 1944, she graduated from Wake Forest College with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

She trained for a year in Philadelphia, Pa., in order to become an occupational therapist. She then moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for the Crippled Children's Clinic for two years.

She married David A. Reeder in 1948. He died in 1984.

In 1956, the then-Mrs. Reeder and her husband settled in Clarksville, where family members said she helped to start public kindergarten in Howard County in the early 1960s.

For 10 years, starting in 1965, she worked as a volunteer coordinator for Head Start, a day care for disadvantaged children in Howard County.

She also served on the Howard County School Board as a member for nine years, starting in 1971.

In 1986, she married Bynum G. Shaw and relocated to Winston-Salem, N.C.

When her second husband died in 2001, she moved again, this time to Raleigh.

Mrs. Shaw is remembered for her love of children and for her service as a volunteer at Millbrook Elementary in Raleigh, for two years, and Douglass Elementary in Raleigh for one year. At both schools, she tutored kindergarten through second grade in various subjects.

In addition, she was a member for 30 years of Linden-Linthicum Methodist Church in Clarksville, where she served on several committees. She also made quilts, as well as hats for premature infants. For the last six years, she was a member of Millbrook Baptist Church in Raleigh.

She loved music and gardening, family members said.

Mrs. Shaw was predeceased by her husband of 36 years, David A. Reeder; her husband of 15 years, Bynum G. Shaw; a brother, John Allen Easley; and a sister, Nancy Uhl.

She is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Nell and Joe Foltz, of Raleigh, and Betsy Reeder, of Jumping Branch, W.Va.; two stepdaughters, Bonnie and her husband, Rob Fowler, of Winston-Salem, and Susan, and her husband Sam Huffstetler, of Yorktown, Va.; a son and a daughter-in-law, John and Janet Reeder, of Ellicott City; a sister, Eleanor Barnes, of Winston-Salem; six grandchildren, Jill Reeder, of Austin, Texas, Emily Reeder, of Austin, Timothy Reeder, of Ellicott City, Jessie Reeder, of Madison, Wis., David Foltz, of Raleigh and Michael Foltz, of Raleigh; and four step-grandchildren, Lewis and his wife, Biby Fowler, of Chapel Hill, N.C., David Fowler, of Winston-Salem, Alison Huffstetler, of Yorktown, Pa., and Raleigh Huffstetler, of Yorktown.

A memorial service was held June 18, 2008, at Millbrook Baptist Church in Raleigh.

Memorial donations may be made to Millbrook Baptist Church, 1519 E. Millbrook Road, Raleigh, NC 27609, or to: Wake Forest Baptist Church, P.O. Box 7326, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, or to: Wake Forest University, John Allen Easley Fund, Divinity School, P.O. Box 7719, Winston-Salem, NC 27109.

Online condolences may be made at www.brownwynne.com.

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