Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 16, 1994 TAG: 9401160060
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG LENGTH: Short
Reared in Clifton Forge, she entered the ministry from Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Covington, but has been serving parishes in the North for 10 years.
Fischer-Davies, 37, will succeed the Rev. Martin Townsend, who left Christ Episcopal 17 months ago after being elected bishop of a Maryland diocese.
Since then, the congregation has been served by the Rev. Michael Thompson, a former Radford rector. He will conclude his work Feb. 6.
Fischer-Davies will begin her ministry Feb. 27. She is coming from Manchester, N.H., where she has been assistant rector of Grace Episcopal Church. She and her husband, Gerald, a journalist, have two children, Andrew, 4, and Mary, 2.
The rector-elect is a graduate of Stuart Hall preparatory school in Staunton and prepared for a career in opera by attending the New England Conservatory of Music.
Following her graduation in 1977, she sang professionally for two years.
In 1979, she enrolled in the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and served an internship at St. John's Episcopal Church of Roanoke. Upon her ordination to the priesthood in 1983, she joined the staff of St. Luke's Church in Metuchen, N.J.
After three years at the New Jersey Church, Fischer-Davies became rector of St. Andrew's Church in Tamworth, N.H., and remained there for four years before going to Manchester.
The choice of Fischer-Davies as rector for the Blacksburg church was announced this week by Gino Iannaccone, the senior warden of the parish.
by CNB