Ms. Mary Elizabeth Hamilton Darby

October 8, 1921 - September 18, 2017

Funeral services for Ms. Mary Elizabeth Hamilton Darby, 95, who died peacefully in Pooler, GA, on Monday, September 18, 2017, will be held at 11 o'clock on Friday, September 29, 2017, in St. Matthews Parish Episcopal Church in Fort Motte, SC. The Rev. Janet Echols will officiate with burial to follow in the church cemetery. Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home of Bishopville, SC is serving the family. Memorials may be made to St. Matthews Parish Episcopal Church, PO Box 447, St. Mattews, SC 29135. She was born in Fort Motte, Calhoun County, South Carolina, the only daughter of Elizabeth McLure Darby and Artemus Keitt Darby. After graduating from Winthrop College in 1943, she worked in New York, Mississippi, and North Carolina before making her home in Savannah, Georgia, in 1957. Following college, she served as the Executive Director of the National Tuberculosis Association before beginning her career with the Girl Scouts of America, where she first served as a Troop Leader, then on the administrative staff at various Senior Girl Scout Roundups, and finally as the Executive Director of the Savannah Girl Scout Council from 1957 to 1973. Following her career with the Girl Scouts, Miss Darby was a partner in Lady Print, one of the first shops to open on River Street in Savannah. She later opened her own Stained Glass Studio on River Street, and repaired and created stained and leaded glass windows and doors for churches and homes. She taught herself to cut glass and also to repair original Tiffany lamp shades. Her work was featured in Southern Living and in Oxmoor House Southern Artists. She retired in 1983. She is survived by one nephew, Kit Darby of Atlanta, two nieces, Greta Darby McDaniel of Bishopville, SC, and Birgit Darby of Myrtle Beach, and one grandnephew, three grandnieces, and one special friend, Betty Murphy of Richmond Hill, GA. Miss Darby was predeceased by two brothers, Artemus Kiett Darby of Washington, DC, and William Elliott Darby of Myrtle Beach.