Catherine Stokes

CATHERINE M. STOKES is a registered professional nurse who works as administrator of field operations for the Division of Health Facilities Standards of the Illinois Department of Public Health. She was released as Relief Society president of the Hyde Park Ward in Chicago in September 1987 and currently teaches the Gospel Essentials class in her ward Sunday School and is an ordinance worker in the Chicago Temple. She has one daughter and loves to travel, sing, cook, and read mysteries.

How Do You Spell Relief? A Panel of Relief Society Presidents

Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 4

The idea for this panel sprang from last year’s western Pilgrimage reunion, an annual meeting of women. We were sitting around observing who’d become a Relief Society president and being amazed. We tried to figure out what it could possibly mean and came to no conclusion but decided it would be interesting to talk about.