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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The thing I found most amazing about Carol was that
she was from West Virginia. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>She really was from WV. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You have to be authentic to come from the side of a
hill, be a DRE, Wesley Foundation staff, a member of OE, and to have lived with
Joe Pierce, and to have adopted four brilliant Pierce kids.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>R Sims</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=hfgreene@mindspring.com href="mailto:hfgreene@mindspring.com">Herman
Greene</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=oe@lists.wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">'Order Ecumenical Community'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 21, 2012 10:00
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Oe List ...] Carol
Pierce</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have strong
memories of Carol. Part of them were just that she was part of the “permanent
order” of which I stood in awe. (Guess we have to reinterpret permanent, but I
feel sure she was to the end part of he permanent order.) Part of it was her
connection to the amazing Joe Pierce.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">She was always
friendly to me. She gave me hope. I will miss her and will always remember her
as she was in the prime of her life.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Herman<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
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oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net]
<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>R
Williams<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday,
September 21, 2012 9:47 AM<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Order
Ecumenical Community</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Oe List ...] Carol
Pierce</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">George,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">It was my good
fortune to encounter Carol last Saturday at the Accelerate 77 gathering in
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>.
Even though my conversation with her was brief, I sensed that she still
embodied all the qualities and traits that you recognized in her when you
first met her back in the 60s, and she still had a bit of the accent and that
little "twisting" of her mouth. I'm sorry you didn't get to
have "one more conversation" with her.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><FONT face=Tahoma color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">"Listen to what is
emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be
supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."<BR>-Martin Buber
(adapted)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> George Holcombe
<geowanda1@me.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Order Ecumenical Community</st1:PersonName>
<oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, September 21, 2012 6:04
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Oe List ...]
Carol Pierce</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><BR>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.<BR><BR>George Holcombe<BR>14900 Yellowleaf Tr.<BR><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Austin</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">TX</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">78728</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><BR>Mobile 512/252-2756<BR><A
href="mailto:geowanda1@me.com"
ymailto="mailto:geowanda1@me.com">geowanda1@me.com</A><BR><BR>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<BR><BR><BR>On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:12 PM, <A
href="mailto:jlepps@pc.jaring.my"
ymailto="mailto:jlepps@pc.jaring.my">jlepps@pc.jaring.my</A>
wrote:<BR><BR>> Carol Pierce<BR>> 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.<BR>> <BR>> Grace & Peace<BR>> Ann & John Epps<BR>>
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