Church Staff

Jeff has been choir director and organist of PUMC since 1979. He grew up in Port Washington, NY, where he was truly inspired as a child by the tremendous music program at his church. He later got his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music Education and taught Choral Music at Fluvanna County High School for eleven years before going to Charlottesville City Schools to be their Fine Arts Coordinator. He is also the choral director at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

 

Jeff loves to do architectural drawings of homes, historic buildings, and towns. He is married to Molly and they have one son, Ben, and one grandson, Corey.

Mrs. Susan O. Nothnagle, a native of Berryville, Virginia, received her Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia. She has successfully taught in public schools for twenty-nine years. The bands she has directed have consistently earned Excellent and Superior ratings and have received numerous awards of outstanding achievement. She began teaching at Fluvanna County High School in Palmyra in 1979. For the past eighteen years, she has taught in the Albemarle County Public School System. She was the band director at Jackson P. Burley Middle School for 9 years before moving to her current position at Monticello High School.  

 

Mrs. Nothnagle enjoys playing wind instruments as well as the piano and organ. She has accompanied the Fluvanna Swing Choir, Fork Union Military Academy Choir, Monticello High School Chorus, the Fluvanna Community Singers, “Just Us”, and many other performing groups. She served as organist and instrumental ensemble director for Berryville Presbyterian Church; pianist, choir accompanist and youth director at Fork Union Baptist Church; and organist, pianist and choir director at Kent’s Store Methodist Church before serving as organist and choir accompanist at Palmyra Methodist Church.