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Elizabeth Henry Dunlap McAliley

Pioneering missionary and pastor Elizabeth (Libby) McAliley passes at age 90

Posted August 29th, 2018

The Rev. Elizabeth (Libby) Dunlap McAliley of Austell, Georgia, passed away July 25. Born May 15, 1928, in York, South Carolina, to Robert Floyd and Edna Henry Dunlap, she married the Rev. William Samuel McAliley Sr. on Aug. 11, 1979.

Pioneering missionary and pastor Elizabeth (Libby) McAliley passes at age 90

Posted August 1st, 2018

Libby McAliley served for 23 years as a Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS) missionary in the Belgian Congo. She completed a Masters of Christian Education in 1959 and received a Master of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in 1973. That same year, McAliley became the first woman in South Carolina to be ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.