Mildred Louise Ramsey

Mildred Duvall Ramsey, age 95, passed away at her home in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 8, 2021.She was born on November 30, 1925 in Oconee County, South Carolina.She attended West Greenville Elementary School; Westville Junior and Senior High School where she served as President of Beta Club, Captain of Basketball Team, and was voted Best all- around student, and was a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Institute. She was a loyal member of Washington Avenue Baptist Church where she shaped the lives of countless young people seeking a walk with Jesus Christ in her role in the adult teaching department. She moved to North Carolina in 2000 and transferred her church membership to Greene Street Baptist church in High Point.
Throughout her life, from the Great Depression era beginnings as a poverty-stricken sharecroppers daughter from the backwoods of Seneca, South Carolina to the President and CEO of her own company, Mildred Ramsey has been a role model and inspiration to everyone who knows her. She was in the 10th grade of high school when she had to go to work on the night shift at a cotton mill to help support the family. After graduation, she continued to work in the textile industry for 42 years as a weaver. In those 42 years, Mildred was watched over by many supervisors, but what they did not know was that she was also watching them!
Mildred was a devoted wife to E. C. Ramsey Jr until his death in 1986. A late bloomer, Mildred, at age of 61 launched a new career and became an author and a motivational speaker. She changed the lives of thousands of front-line supervisors through her management training seminars and other training resources. As the founder and CEO of Positive Presentations. She wrote The Super Supervisor, a unique and controversial book about the sins of management, or what your employees always wanted to tell you but were afraid you would fire them. With over 200,000 books in circulation, the Super Supervisor has become required reading for many managers. The book led to public seminars, a video seminar series, and a range of supervisory training products sold through her company web site, positivepresentations.com Mildred has presented her public seminar to hundreds of companies in the United States and her Super Supervisor seminar videos are in use in over 1000 companies. Published books include, The Super Supervisor, The Rainbow Collection, and A Winner Warts and All, Trademarked videos include Super Supervisor I, Super Supervisor II, and A Winner Warts and All. Her interests included poetry, comedy, writing and public speaking.
Mildred is preceded in death by her husband Encer Cleveland Ramsey and a later love in her life, Dr. Ranzy Rogers. She also lost her sons Joseph Kenneth Ramsey and James Stephen Ramsey. She is survived by her son Furman Douglas Ramsey and his wife Linda Ramsey and sons Doug Jr. and Steven, daughter-in-law Rhonda Reid Ramsey and her children Stephanie and James of South Carolina as well as the children of Joseph Kenneth, Nicole Clyburn, Jennifer Lanam, and Joseph Ramsey of Texas. She was loved and adored by 7 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren and one great-great granddaughter.

A funeral service will be held on Friday, February 19, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. at Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Northwest Chapel. Burial will follow in Graceland Cemetery West.

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Memorials may be made to Washington Avenue Baptist Church, 200 N. Washington Ave., Greenville, SC 29611.