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Odum Home Children and Staff Celebrate 65 Years

Odum Home Children and Staff Celebrate 65 Years

October 10, 2007

Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina’s (BCH) Odum Home campus celebrated 65 years of helping children and families in Pembroke and the surrounding area during a celebration on Tuesday, October 9. Children performed inspirational songs for the alumni, staff members, and community guests in attendance. The program also included a special presentation to the very first residents, twin sisters Josephine Ransom and Catherine Locklear of Pembroke, who were admitted in 1942.

Odum Home was originally formed by the Burnt Swamp Baptist Association in 1942 as The Indian Orphanage. In the late 1950s, the children’s residential facility struggled to stay open. Local leadership made an appeal to the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, and in 1957 the Indian Orphanage joined Baptist Children’s Homes’ statewide system. Today, BCH operates care facilities in 15 communities across the state.

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