[Magdalen] Capers

[Ginga Wilder]

Caper's Obituary from Charleston Post and Courier
http://www.postandcourier.com/

The Reverend Capers Huffman Limehouse, poet and chaplain, died at home May
22, 2015 in Charleston, SC. She was 65. She will be remembered in a Service
of Thanksgiving for the Life of The Reverend Annelle Capers HuffmanLimehouse
 at Grace Episcopal Church, 98 Wentworth Street, on Tuesday, May 26, 2015
at 3:00 p.m. A Vigil of Remembrance will be held on Monday, May 25, 2015,
in St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 67 Anson Street, beginning at 8:00 pm. In
lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Roper St. Francis
Foundation, 125 Doughty Street, Suite 790, Charleston, SC 29403 for the
Ryan White Program. Arrangements by J. HENRY STUHR, INC. DOWNTOWN CHAPEL.

Capers retired in December as a staff chaplain at Roper St. Francis where
she ministered for nine years after being ordained a deacon in the
Episcopal Church. She served as deacon assistant at St Marks, Charleston;
as deacon & poet-in-residence, she often preached at St. Stephens,
Charleston, but viewed her chaplaincy as her vocation. Until she retired,
she frequently marched with the palliative care team through the halls of
Roper Hospital in her black clericals and stiff white collar, stopping to
sit with patients or offer a hug to one of the nurses in her staff support
group. She was particularly loved by Roper's HIV/AIDS treatment community
for the peer support group and World AIDS Day events she initiated, said
Aaron O'Brien, a Roper's Ryan White Community Center program analyst. To
honor her years of service and ministry to the Roper St. Francis community,
the Ryan White Wellness Center has established the "Capers H.
Limehouse Humanitarian
Award" and the pastoral care team is reframing the annual ethics conference
to become the "Limehouse Bioethics and Humanities Lecture," recognizing the
work and interest that both Capers and her husband have done in
illuminating the ways in which medicine, ethics, spirituality and the arts
intersect.

Capers graduated from Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, GA, in 1971 with a
BA in English. Shortly, thereafter, she moved to Charleston and married
Walter Limehouse, Jr. While he completed medical school, she taught English
at Bishop England High School, served as librarian for Bell Tillman
Elementary. then studied art education at Furman University, Greenville SC.
During his postgraduate training they moved to New Haven CT where daughter,
Alice, was born and then to Wilkesboro, NC where their first son, John
Nathan, was born. Subsequently, in Providence RI Capers studied psychology
at University of Rhode Island and coordinated an in-patient day program
using art at Rhode Island Hospital. In 1981, the family moved to Atlanta,
GA where the couple had their second son, Adam.

Capers co-founded & directed with Daniel Veach, the community arts
organization Poetry Atlanta and became founding literary editor of Atlanta
Review. Deeply involved in theater and the arts, she received a Georgia
Council of the Arts grant to compile a collection of her poetry, Cave
Diving. Capers completed a Masters of Fine Arts in 1993 at Georgia State
University where she taught English. After moving back to Charleston in
1995, she also taught at both the College of Charleston & Trident Community
College. Capers' poetry has been published in such venues as Christian
Century, American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care Medicine, The
Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, The Journal of Poetry Therapy, The
Chattahoochee Review, Greensboro Review, Poem, and Georgia State Review.
Atlanta Review will honor her poetry in an upcoming special edition.

Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley CA awarded Capers a
Certificate of Anglican Studies on May 22, 2015.

Rev. Limehouse is survived by her beloved husband, Walter, her three
children, AliceLimehouse and her husband, Andrew Larrier, John Nathan
Limehouse and his wife, Caroline, and Adam Briskin-Limehouse and his wife,
Laura, and two grandchildren, Phoebe Ann and Kaleb Mason, and her two
step-grandchildren, Marcus and Larry Mason II. She is also survived by her
brother, John Huffman.