[Oe List ...] Carol Pierce

[PSchrijnen at aol.com]

I keep on wanting to read more emails about Carol's life and death, but she 
 has 'waved goodbye and is on her way'. Such sadness....
 
Grace and Peace,

Paul
 
 
In a message dated 22/09/2012 02:35:19 GMT Daylight Time,  
dshahn31 at gmail.com writes:

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_ 
(mailto: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_ (tel:512/252-2756) 
_geowanda1 at me.com_ (mailto: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_ 
(mailto: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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