Meet our new club members as of January 2018

Kate Bauer

Grew up in a family with 3 sisters and moved all over.  Most of my wonder years were in tropical places and Southern California.  Transferred for work from the west coast to the east coast cost, North Carolina and Europe.   Retired to OIB with my husband in 2015.  We love to travel, sail our 42' boat and spend time with our family and friends.

Denise Moore

I have been married to Bob, my high school sweetheart for 41 years.  We are the parents of twin boys, Christopher & Craig and the proud grandparents of Jackson, our 8 year old grandson.  Born and raised in NJ, we moved to Connecticut ofr 16 years before finally making it down south to Rivers Edge in Shallotte in 2007.  In the past, I worked as a Pediatric Maternal Child Health Social Worker for various hospitals and organizations.  Currently, in my free time I can be found gardening, enjoying the sun & surf or reading a book on my deck.  Oh, did I mention my love of shopping?  Spending time with Jackson and our rescue dog Carson also tope the list of favorite activities.  I am excited about being an active member of GFWC-SBI, where I hope to couple my education and work experience with my desire to give back to the community. 

Virginia (Ginny) Griffin Varnum

I am a native of Holden Beach/Brunswick County and will have lived here 50 years on August 5, 2018!
Married to Jamie Varnum for 12 years;  we have 3 Girls—Carter Hewett age 27 (Co-owner of Honalee Farms and owner of Honalee Lesson and Boarding Program) Griffin Hewett age 26 (Veterinary student at NCSU CVM) and Davis Varnum age 10, (5th grader at South Brunswick Charter School);  I am a Co-owner of Honalee Stables and Farms in Bolivia, NC and self-employed Consultant with Rodan + Fields.  My husband Jamie is a skilled carpenter and together we try to tackle a yearly home improvement project either at the farm house or the family Beach house on Holden.
In addition to a busy daily life on the Farm, Our close family enjoys time together both here on the coast and in the NC Mountains.  Hunting, fishing and boating on the coast and occasionally hiking in the hills keeps us all very busy!

Rainey Ashley

Rainey has lived in six states the majority in Texas, which she considers her “home state”. While spending summers with her grandparents in New York and North Carolina, they bestowed a sense of service and charitable work into Rainey. Since then, Rainey has enjoyed membership and leadership positions in several charitable/service organizations.  After graduating from the University of Texas, Rainey spend 26 years in the financial services industry, as a SVP of Compliance for several larger banks and prior to moving to North Carolina was a commissioned examiner with the Federal Reserve System.  When Rainey isn’t working at State Employee’s Credit Union in Shallotte, she is enjoying the beach, golf, reading and making jewelry; as well as spending time with family/friends and her three (four legged) kids. 

Brenda Hooks

Retired as SVP from Coastal Federal Credit Union in Raleigh, NC after 37 years.  My husband, Barry and I moved to Rivers Edge in May 2017.  My parents bought a beach house at Ocean Isle Beach 40 years aso, so we've been vacationing here for a long time and decided to retire to the area.  We love to travel, bike, swim, read and take our 11 years old dog Bailey to walk.  Looking forward to giving back to the community through GFWC-SBI.

Littonnie Summerlin

Littonnie is from Virginia, she traveled to North Carolina on family vacations to the beach as a child. She fell in love with Sunset Beach and made the move in 1999. 
 She now lives in Shallotte with her husband Todd and they have three daughters. Jessica who is married to Travis and they have twin boys named Malachi and Elijah. Samantha who attends college in Charleston SC. And Savannah who is a senior. 
 Littonnie is a manicurist and works at Carolina Curls in Ocean Isle Beach. When not working she 
 loves spending time with her family and friends. She attends church at Beach Assembly of God in Ocean Isle Beach.

Diane D'Angelo

I am from NJ where I spent most of my life.  Grew up in the city of Trenton in an Italian neighborhood full of close neighbors and wonderful bakeries and specialty food shops.  We moved to the suburbs when I was 17.  I started out with an associate’s degree in science but as a working mother I returned to school and earned a Bachelor and Master of Science while working full time.  I worked as a clinical veterinary microbiologist for many years before making the switch to agricultural research.  I held positions with several large pharmaceutical companies and then an agricultural products companies in NJ.  In a change of life direction, I moved to Ohio where I lived for 20 years on a farm and raised and showed llamas while working for Proctor and Gamble in Beauty Care Research.  A real switch from agriculture!  I returned to NJ, my last job was for Rutgers University back in agriculture.  I have on grown son, a granddaughter who will graduate from HS this year, and a grandson who finished college and works in neurological research.  I moved to Carolina shores late in 2017.  I love to garden, and embroider.  My two old dogs and my rescued cat are my favorite things