[Oe List ...] Celebrating the completed life of Bill Bailey

[Doris Hahn via OE]

What can we say about Bill?--Bill who married Marianna in their mid-teens
and then went on to play football at Duke; father three bright and
accomplished children; finish three years of graduate school; then put all
of that to work on behalf of our corporate life and work. In the first year
of the Religious Houses, Bill and Marianna were assigned to Los Angeles,
where Bill demonstrated  his great ability to raise the right questions and
calm the waters with simple but profound answers. He was also somewhat a
magician who did his and Marianna's laundry while he did "wake-up" around
our House every morning. From there he mixed his southern drawl with many
other voices in Order Houses around the world. The Hahn family are grateful
for having had the privilege of sharing life and work with Bill Bailey.

Grace and Peace to Marianna, Tom, Lynn, Nan and the younger Bailey clan.

Doris and Charles Hahn

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Marilyn Crocker via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Dear Lynn,
>
> Thank you so very much for letting us all know about your beloved Dad's
> passing on to join the Community of Saints.  Joe and I hold you, your Mom,
> Nan, Maria, Billy, Julia and Tom in our hearts tonight with deep love and
> admiration for the strong image of "missional family" you have always
> represented -- whether under assignment together or working in separate
> places.
>
> This letter is meant for you all.
>
> When your parents agreed to take on a critical leadership role in Majuro,
> we
> became Nan's guardians in the NYRH (first in Patterson, NJ, then in
> Manhattan -- a 3 year journey when Nan was then in high school).  Your Dad
> returned to the US briefly during this time, and led House Church one
> Sunday
> in Patterson.  He was introduced as "Nan's Dad", to which Jon and Ben, then
> 3 years old and very attached to Nan said, in toddler shock and utter
> disbelief, "But we thought OUR Dad was Nan's Dad!"  So we have felt forever
> connected in love and appreciation to the Bill Bailey family.
>
> Your family (Bill, Marianna, Lynn, Nan, Tom)  somehow, despite
> understandable pain and angst, were able to embrace the radical shift from
> being a pastor's family in comfortable suburbia, to moving to the
> then-ghetto of Fifth City as part of an experimental religious order, to
> sharing your gifts of leadership in remote villages and big cities across
> the world -- AND -- to not ever lose your commitment to extended family
> (including Nan's grandma with whom she always stayed in touch) or its
> unusual call to service.
>
> All of that and far more (as the family expanded) is the legacy of Bill
> Bailey, his beautiful wife, Marianna, and his three terrific offspring --
> and their enriching effects to planet earth and its inhabitants will be
> felt
> directly and indirectly for many more decades.
>
> We send you our love and prayers of thanksgiving for being YOU!
>
> Marilyn and Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Marianna
> Bailey via OE
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 1:28 PM
> To: Order Ecumenical Community
> Subject: [Oe List ...] Celebrating the completed life of Bill Bailey
>
> This is Bill and Marianna's daughter, Lynn. I want to let you know that Dad
> completed his life early this morning with his family by his side. We love
> him and will miss him dearly.
>
> Grace and Peace,
>
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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