Emily Dolvin

Emily Frances Gordy Dolvin (October 3, 1912 – December 2, 2006), also known as Aunt Sissy, was an American educator, historic preservationist, political campaigner and civic leader from the state of Georgia.

Dolvin was born in 1912 in Richland, Georgia as the youngest of Mary Ida Nicholson (1871–1951) and James Jackson Gordy's (1863–1948) nine children.

The Roswell Rotary Club named her a William Watt Fellow, and she was the first female member of that organization.

In 1976, Time magazine referred to her as a “tiny, stylishly dressed, white-haired dynamo” and the secret weapon of Carter's campaign.

[citation needed] An elder of the Roswell Presbyterian Church, Dolvin also founded the Refuge Resettlement Ministry.