Nell Harden was born in Rome, Georgia to the late William and Helen McLin Harden on October 9, 1924. She died on August 15, 2017, just short of her 93rd birthday. Her family moved from Rome, Georgia, to Gastonia, North Carolina in 1929, when Nell was only five years old. She would later describe the experience of her family as a transition from Georgia “Crackers” to North Carolina “Tar Heels.” In 1937 the family moved from Gastonia to Salisbury, where she came to trust Christ for her salvation under the ministry of Dr. Charles Woodbridge of the First Presbyterian Church in Salisbury. Nell was educated in local schools. She graduated from Catawba College in 1945. She also attended Columbia Bible College, and received a Master of Arts degree from Duke University (Class of 1952). Her master’s thesis was on “Moral Elements in Defoe.” Her career in teaching included public schools in Mocksville, North Carolina, and Martinsville, Virginia. She returned to Salisbury to care for her ailing parents while teaching English at Catawba College. In 1969 she moved to Asheville where she taught English at the Ben Lippen School until she retired in 1987, and moved to the Givens Estates to spend her remaining years. There she was known for playing the autoharp for the worship and entertainment of the patrons there, and for her volunteer work “to help gladden the lives of older people and seek to point them to Jesus Christ.” She had one brother, Charles, who died in 1979. She is survived by Charles’s widow, Edna, of Beverly Hills, Florida, and three nephews and their wives-Charles and Barbara Harden of Helena, Georgia; J.Blair and Aimee Harden of Milford, Massachusetts; and John and Jean Harden of Farmington, Connecticut. Also surviving are three great nieces; Ryan H. Lewis of San Francisco, California; Petra H. Vicknair of Longwood, Florida; and Katie Harden of Farmington, Connecticut. Nell was a lifelong Presbyterian, a member of the Weaverville Presbyterian Church until her retirement when she joined the Arden Presbyterian Church. A memorial service will be held on Saturday September 9, 2017 at Givens Estates Pulliam Chapel (2360 Sweeten Creek Road, Asheville, NC 28803) at 2:00 PM with Reverend Ken Crabb officiating.