Elizabeth Jones first stepped into St. Columba’s Episcopal Church after the untimely death of her best friend. The pair met in college and were an instant match: one abhorred typing and needed her papers transcribed, and the other needed work. The two remained inseparable until Ms. Jones’s friend died from kidney disease in the early ’90s.
“I knew it was coming, but it was a very difficult day,” said Ms. Jones, a longtime…