Maude Magaline (Thrower) Shaw

Maude Magaline Thrower was born on March 15, 1932, in Johnston County, NC as the youngest child of Eldred “Lee” and Dora McDonald Thrower. She was the youngest child of five sons and six daughters. On the same day of Maude’s birth, Maude’s sister, Beulah, and her husband Luther Overman received into the world a daughter, Margaret Brogden Overman. Therefore, Maude and Margaret grew up as though they were twin sisters. Lee was killed in a car crash before Maude’s first birthday, but the family continued to farm in Four Oaks, NC. Maude was baptized into the body of Christ at Four Oaks Methodist Episcopal Church (now United Methodist Church). Following the death of Margaret’s father and mother, Dora adopted Margaret. After all of Maude’s siblings had left home, Dora sold the farm in Four Oaks and Margaret, Maude, and Dora moved to Smithfield. Margaret and Maude both graduated in 1950 from Four Oaks High School. Following her graduation, Maude attended and graduated with an associate degree in Business from Hardbarger Business College, located in Raleigh, NC.

Following graduation, she went to work in the bookkeeping and clerical pool at Occidental Life in Raleigh. A mutual friend introduced her to C.P. Shaw of Leaksville. NC (now Eden, NC). They dated until his departure for US Army Basic Training and Signal School at Ft. Jackson and Camp Gordon, respectively. She paid for a train ticket for C.P. to Seattle so that the two could spend time together before his deployment to Korea. Upon C.P.’s discharge, Maude and he were married at Four Oaks Methodist Church on January 28, 1956. The two took up residence in Cameron Village in Raleigh. It was in Raleigh that Maude was received into the Episcopal Church and Confirmed by the Bishop of the Diocese of NC.

C.P. had already begun his career with the N.C. Department of Transportation in Raleigh. C.P. was then transferred to Winston-Salem where he and Maude joined St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem. Maude worked in the secretarial and bookkeeping pool at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. When St. Paul’s formed a new Congregation, St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church of Winston-Salem, they both joined that Congregation. While in Winston-Salem, they had two sons, Charles Pierson Shaw, Jr. and John Martin Shaw. The young family moved to Greenville in 1967, and they joined St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville. In 1977, Maude urged C.P. to join Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Greenville, and so the family transferred their membership to that congregation.

At Our Redeemer, Maude became an active member of the Lutheran Church Women (now Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) the Altar Guild and served for a term on the Congregation Council. She would assist in the nursery with one or both of her sons. She worked on her son’s Eagle Project, which was a beautification project on the grounds of Our Redeemer.

Maude remained a homemaker for several years and then earned her license as a Real Estate Broker, after taking the Real Estate Brokerage Course at Pitt Community College from C.P. Shaw. She went on to sell real estate with a real estate firm in Greenville. After a brief break she went back to work and worked for Electronic Office Systems and then A.G. Cox Grammar School as Assistant Librarian.

C.P. would retire from the appraisal section in Greenville in 1984 and go on to start his own appraisal company, Shaw Associates, Limited. Maude became the guiding hand that managed the company, producing dictated appraisal reports, accounting, and managing the day-to-day affairs of the corporation. Shaw Associates Ltd. provided appraisal and consulting services to various local, state, and federal government agencies as well as numerous private and corporate clients. The practice was focused on commercial, industrial, and agricultural property as well as Eminent Domain and special purpose properties. C.P. often shared with others that there would have been no Shaw Associates Ltd., without Maude. They made two trips to Europe in addition to business trips across the country and into western Canada.

On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, C.P. died and Maude continued to make her home in Greenville, with the aid of 24-hour caregivers. By January of 2022, it became apparent that a resident care facility was needed, after a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s ten years before. Her sons moved her to Trinity Village in Hickory, near her son Pierson’s residence. Maude Transferred her Church Membership to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Hickory. She was visited frequently by members and Pastors of Holy Trinity, who remained faithful in supporting one of their newest members. On June 6, 2022, after having suffered a major stroke, Maude died and entered the Church Triumphant.

Maude is preceded in death by C.P., her husband of nearly sixty-five years. In so many ways, all who knew Maude and C.P. could see clearly see that Maude lived for C.P., and C.P. lived for Maude. In all of their years of marriage, C.P. would always speak of Maude as “my bride.” In addition to C.P., Maude is also preceded in death by her father, Lee Thrower; her mother, Dora Bert McDonald Thrower; her brothers, Ira Clay Thrower, Frances Martin Thrower, Claude Wilson Thrower, James Calvin Thrower, and Roy Lee Thrower; her sisters, Lorena Thrower, Beulah Thrower Overman, Ruby Mae Thrower Lee, Mildred Ruth Thrower Ryals, Dorothy Marie Thrower; and her niece whom Maude regarded as a sister, Margaret Brogden Overman Raynor. She is survived by two sons, The Rev. Dr. C. Pierson Shaw, Jr. and wife, Karen Foil Russ Shaw of Hickory, John Martin Shaw and partner, Amelia Stokes of Greenville; one Grandson, Mark Tristan Shaw of Greenville; two granddaughters, Sarah Grace Russ of Fountain Valley, CA, Taylor Jeanette Russ of Hickory, NC; a sister-in-law, Lucile Gills Shaw of Davidson, NC; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A Committal and Interment Rite will be conducted at 2:30 pm, Saturday, June 25, 2022, for family and friends at Greenmont Cemetery 536 W. Academy Street, Wendell, NC with the Rev. Timothy Marcus Smith, Bishop of the NC Synod of the ELCA presiding.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers that

gifts be given to the Glory of God and in Memory of Maude T. Shaw to

“Be the Light Campaign”

Lutheran Services of the Carolinas,

1416 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue

Salisbury, NC 28144

Or

to The Humane Society of Eastern Carolina

3520 Tupper Dr., Greenville, NC 27834

Maude will be remembered by her family and friends, as a skilled business companion with C.P. and as one with a devout faith, who understood well the necessity of directness yet with a tremendous sense of compassion and loving kindness.