[Oe List ...] Bill Grow

[Zoe Barley]

With Bill's death I experience the end of a generation, soon we all will be gone. Nine families* arrived  in Chicago the summer of 1966 to join the original families of the Faith and Life Community, college students, and others who had come in 1965. We were the result of the RS-1 and PLC courses taught across the nation in 1965. The Barleys came with 2 children ages 2 and 4, a car, a dog and a king sized sofa bed. Bill and Nan came with 4 children ages less than 8 months to 7. After a summer teaching in the preschool I was assigned to publications with Bill in the print shop. We had the full gamut from typesetting articles, layout of several publications, printing, collating, creating and adhering mailing labels for a mailing list in the thousands, and sorting and bagging the mailing to take it to the post office.  As Jim indicates Bill was a phenomenal colleague through it all, never complaining, always there for all night shifts of which there were many. It was a coming of age - of enlightenment - for all of us and for our young children.  I too remember the Grow family with fondness.

Zoe

* Barley, Baringer, Grow, Hess, Hockley, Shinn, Wainwright, Zarht, and Zollars. 

Zoe Barley 
116 Jackson Street 
Denver Colorado 80206 
720-318-1171 (mobile) 


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From: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Sent: May 15, 2023 6:37 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Cc: James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>, ICA Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>, Bradford Grow <bradford.grow at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Bill Grow

The first work assignment I had in Chicago was helping Bill, down in the basement printshop, to print and collate the edition of The Image that was printed on sort of cream colored paper.  He was steady, comfortable with uncertainties in life, and always on a quest, never stopping (he was there working in the printshop before I got there and still on it when I left at the end of the day. 
Judy and I visited Bill and Nan on one of our cross country jaunts and had a chance to listen to some of their stories.  Our dogs met, as well.  Here is one of Bill’s reflections:
Bill Grow ICA Methods Total Honoring of the People Who Have No Voice (https://youtu.be/krsFXgrCnQo)
youtu.be (https://youtu.be/krsFXgrCnQo)



Thanks to Brad for sharing the news of Bill’s death.  I will miss and remember Bill and Nan and the Grow family.  I look forward to celebrating and memorializing Bill.

Jim Wiegel
“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking



On May 15, 2023, at 1:25 AM, Karen Snyder via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:


Brad Grow emailed that his father, Bill Grow, died May 14.  He said, "Dad passed away about six hours ago. It was quiet, peaceful and painless. We are beginning the process of developing memorial thoughts. He was very grateful that there was someone to receive their archives.”  

Two weeks ago twenty boxes of Bill and Nan Grow's archives arrived at the ICA GreenRise. In one of the last acts of his life, Bill was determined that their family archives would be sent to the ICA to be added as needed to the Global Archives website.  The boxes are waiting now to be sorted and scanned at the July 16-30 Archives Sojourn. 

Peace,

Karen Snyder Troxel
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