Helen C. Fleming, a retired local pastor who served at Eastwick UMC in Philadelphia from 1996 to 2005, died Dec. 13. She was serving Mt. Vernon Place UMC Baltimore, Md.

Fleming left Philadelphia in 2005 to join the Baltimore-Washington Conference and served in a series of ministry roles, including Director of Leadership Development, Assistant to Bishop John R. Schol, and pastor of Douglas Memorial UMC in Washington, D.C.  She retired there in 2010 and later became a church leadership consultant and a retired local pastor.

Condolences may be sent to Fleming’s daughter Tracey L. Stafford, at 11 Caitlin Circle, Windsor Mills, Maryland 21244.