[Oe List ...] Carol Pierce

[Doris Hahn]

News of Carol's death hits hard. We traveled quite a journey together, as
did we all. And in many way, it continues.

Charles and I traveled three months in 1966, with Carol and Joe, visiting
countries of the Arab world. We spent a lot of time reading, talking and
reflecting before we left Chicago, and of course, that continued throughout
the trip. During meals and coffee/tea breaks, Carol often made some
succinct comment (laced with facts and figures) about the current country
we were visiting. Joe would say, "How do you know that?" to which Carol
would reply, "Well, it was in that book we read before we left Chicago."
And Joe would just shake his head in disbelief (and some degree of disgust).

I last saw Carol at her apartment. We had to rush the visit a bit, because
she was being picked up by some specially equipped vehicle and whisked off
to a medical appointment. So, my last memory of Carol is her wheeling
herself onto a elevator/platform that went up a few feet from her "garden"
apartment to ground level, thereby allowing her to move her wheelchair
directly out onto the driveway. She wheeled around, waved goodbye and was
on her way.

Grace and Peace,
Doris Hahn

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:04 AM, George Holcombe <geowanda1 at me.com> wrote:

> Thanks, John and Ann.  The first time I went to 3444 (was it '63,'64,
> can't remember), it was in the afternoon.  I got out of the taxi and went
> through the door, no security then, went up the stairs and the only two
> people around were Carol and Kathy (now Zervigon), walking down the
> hallway.  They immediately greeted me, treated me to coffee and we talked
> as if we had known each other forever for I don't know how long.  After
> that I never sensed that I didn't know Carol.  She had a way of twisting
> her mouth and saying in that southern drawl something that would shift the
> mood of the conversation whenever it went off track, even when Pierce was
> rocketing off on some subject that was blowing out all the light bulbs.
>  I'm a bit sad, hoped to have had one more conversation.
>
> George Holcombe
> 14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
> Austin, TX 78728
> Mobile 512/252-2756
> geowanda1 at me.com
>
> Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you do not have anything to do
> with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien—it just
> appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in the world could you
> hope when there is absolutely nothing to justify any hope?    ~Joseph W.
> Mathews
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:12 PM, jlepps at pc.jaring.my wrote:
>
> > Carol Pierce
> > A person of presence, graciousness, competence, and humor: when we knew
> her, she embodied those features along with a twinkle that demonstrated a
> certain detachment from the immediate crises with which she was involved.
> Her spirit and style will be greatly missed. We join the Order and the
> family in celebrating her completed life. And we are grateful for the
> privilege of having known and worked with her.
> >
> > Grace & Peace
> > Ann & John Epps
> >
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