[Oe List ...] Colleen Birch Smith

[Carol Crow]

Dear Clare,

Thank you for sharing the news about Colleen.  I knew from previous  
posts that she was quite ill, so was not surprised at the news.  My  
most vivid contact with Colleen was the monthly sessions I had with  
her during the 9+ months we were both in the Gay Luce Mystery School  
in northern CA.  When we spent one session on the Big Island in  
Hawaii, she and I were roommates.  I so enjoyed her sense of humor and  
her big smile.   Also she was on the ICA staff in Tonga when our  
daughter Karyn, was there on her 9th grade deployment.  What a  
beautiful spirit and a hard worker!

In caring community,
Carol


On Nov 22, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Clare Whitney wrote:

> Colleen Birth Smith left this life Thanksgiving afternoon in Moab  
> Utah where she had lived for several years near her son and his  
> family.  She and her husband, Victor, came to the community from  
> Salt Lake City where they were in the religious house.  They went to  
> Cusak, WA when the project began there and she worked as a Vista  
> volunteer.  Victor died in 1980.  In 1982 she took assignment to  
> Samoa and then to Tonga, returning in 1985 and living in Denver.   
> She moved to Moab several years ago to be near family.  She has been  
> sick for some time and while there is sorrow on our part that she  
> has left us, we also rejoice that her earthly pain is over.  She  
> leaves two sons and a daughter and many colleagues who remember her  
> keen understanding and her passion for justice wherever she was.
>
> Grace and Peace,
>
> Clare Whitney, Denver
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