David Storey, Vestry Class of 2012

After eight years of apprenticing to organbuilders, David Storey moved to Baltimore in 1983. He quickly took a position as organist at Church of the Holy Evangelists in East Baltimore where he played the oldest working organ in the city for twelve years. Raised in upstate New York as a Presbyterian, he subsequently joined the Episcopal Church and became junior warden at Holy Evangelists. When the diocese closed the church, he moved to the bench at Old Otterbein UM Church where he had just restored the historic 100 year old organ. David continued in that post for six years. Upon retiring from playing in church, David joined Memorial Church in 2001. He assisted the Memorial Set and Stage Masters in the construction of Memorial’s great stage. David is godfather to Diamond and Damone Johnson who frequently join him on Sunday mornings for Sunday school.

David has owned and operated his organ-building and service business in Baltimore for more than twenty years. He resides but a short minute’s walk from Memorial Church in Bolton Hill with his partner of 18 years, Marvin Mills, who he first met at an organ recital. David works throughout the mid-Atlantic region providing building, tuning, maintenance, and sudden emergency repair during late-night worship services for the King of Instruments.