[Oe List ...] Joe Crocker's Passing

[Isobel and Jim]

Dearest Marilyn, 
We know that the feeling of sadness and numbness feels as if it is enveloping you at the moment. 
This is a hard time for you and we send our loving  condolences as you mourn your beloved’s passing into the glorious light.  
We remember with gratitude your life with us in the Sydney House, when Jon and Ben were about 6 months old. What a wonderful experience we shared with you then ! I remember Joe working out a way to present left over porridge the next day,  as somewhat edible! 
The ITI in Singapore was also a sentinel occasion as I came to respect and enjoy both of you in your teaching, and begin to know  you as two wonderful friends.  
We are thinking of you Marilyn and so grateful that our lives were touched by Joe and he now rests ‘ well done good and faithful servant ‘
With grateful hearts, 
Isobel Jim and family. 

Isobel Bishop
Mob.  0412 129 425

> On 29 Apr 2023, at 6:02 am, Mari Crocker via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear Colleagues on the Long March of Love,
> 
> Just a note to say my beloved Joe passed on to the "next chapter" yesterday at 5:41 AM, after a nearly 48-hour, post-stroke journey.  
> Ben, Jon and I were with him for most of that time, and it was a deeply meaning-filled experience of remembering with gratitude.  
> All 4 grandchildren and both daughters-in-law were able to visit early in the process of our “watching, waiting and standing present".  
> The staff at Watson Fields were amazingly loving and supportive during our sojourn, and gathered to witness Joe's “send-out” into the funeral hearse, accompanied by the singing of Amazing Grace.
> 
> God gives, and God takes away, and we give thanks.
> 
> Grace and Peace,
> 
> Marilyn 
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