Mary Griffin Gould

May 8, 1922-January 9, 2015

Mary Ellen Griffin Gould, 92, born in Greenville, SC, to Floyd Frederick and Marie Chapman Griffin, graduated from Greenville High School and Furman University. She met the man of her dreams while working at the Carolina Theater box office in downtown Greenville.

She is survived by her sister Marilyn Griffin Cox of Sheldon, SC, and William Gould, Jr. of Winston-Salem, her husband of seventy years, as well as by their three children, Rebecca Gould Gibson of Winston-Salem, David William Gould of Atlanta, GA, and William Griffin Gould of Washington, DC, three grandchildren, and one great grandchild.

A longtime Master Judge of Flower Shows, Mary Ellen became an active member of the Old Salem Garden Club upon moving to Winston-Salem in 1994. Memorials may be sent to the Garden Club Council of Winston-Salem for the Scholarship Fund or the Beautification Endowment Fund (Garden Club Council Headquarters, 100 Reynolda Village, Winston-Salem, NC, 27016).