SORRENTO AND HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC
Fordyce Ewing Van Winkle,
12/29/1927 – 6/16/2018.Image may be NSFW.
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Fordy was born on December 29, 1927 in New York City, the daughter of William Francis Cochran Ewing and Emily Fordyce Dodge. She attended Bennington College and then married George W. Staempfli with whom she had two daughters. Fordy got great pleasure in singing with the Dessoff Choir under the direction of Paul Boepple, singing at Carnegie Hall. She was divorced from her first husband and later married Ted Van Winkle. Fordy worked in the banking industry for many years and was the first female officer at Bankers Trust. On the Van Winkles’ retirement they traveled around the country in an RV and sailed the inland waterway a number of times, stopping in Hilton Head each time. They moved to Hilton Head Plantation in 1981 and to The Cypress in 1998. Fordy has spent every summer of her life in Sorrento, Maine and had plans to return again this summer. Fordy was one of the founding members of the Hilton Head Planned Parenthood and volunteered there for many years and for the last 20 years with Volunteers in Medicine.
She is survived by a sister, Jennifer Ewing; two daughters, Candida Staempfli Steel and Fordyce Staempfli Williams; her sons-in-law, Terry Steel and Holden B. Williams; a grandson, Gifford Staempfli Williams, and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at the Church of the Redeemer in Sorrento on Saturday, August 18th, 2018 at 10 am.
