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Interim Executive Director: Ray McKesson
The Board of Directors has named Ray McKesson as Interim Executive Director for Hospice, as of July 2, 2009, during the search process for a new Executive Director. McKesson has been a Hospice Board member and the organization‘s Treasurer since he retired in 2007 as Vice-President for Finance and Administration at McDowell Technical Community College, where he had worked since 1981.
Returning to McDowell County after serving in the US Army, McKesson earned a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from Appalachian State University in 1977 and assisted people with Medicaid eligibility at DSS before working at McDowell Technical Community College as purchasing agent and equipment coordinator. By 1989, he earned a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Western Carolina University and became Chief Financial Officer for MTCC.
McKesson knows the people and needs of McDowell County, having been an elected member of the McDowell County Board of Education from 1986 to 1996, serving as a lay leader at Addie’s Chapel United Methodist Church, and working with numerous charitable and civic organizations as well as governmental agencies.
2009 Hospice of McDowell County, Inc. Board of Directors
Richard Wood , President
Veda Rowe , Vice President
Marilyn Collins, Secretary
Ray McKesson , Interim Executive Director, Treasurer, Ex-officio
Kay Blanton
Dr. David DuBose
Dr. George Ellis
Rev. Barry Gouge
Rev. Carroll Miller
Garland Norton
Jane Schroeder
Hospice of McDowell County, Inc. is honored to be a Member of the following Professional Organizations
The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care
Dr. Edward St. Bernard, Volunteer Medical Director
Ray McKesson , Interim Executive Director
Hospice of McDowell County, Inc.
575 Airport Road, Marion, NC 28752
Phone: (828) 652-1318
Fax: (828)
659-1631
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