<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Clare,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for sharing the news about Colleen. I knew from previous posts that she was quite ill, so was not surprised at the news. My most vivid contact with Colleen was the monthly sessions I had with her during the 9+ months we were both in the Gay Luce Mystery School in northern CA. When we spent one session on the Big Island in Hawaii, she and I were roommates. I so enjoyed her sense of humor and her big smile. Also she was on the ICA staff in Tonga when our daughter Karyn, was there on her 9th grade deployment. What a beautiful spirit and a hard worker!</div><div><br></div><div>In caring community,</div><div>Carol</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 22, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Clare Whitney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Colleen Birth Smith left this life Thanksgiving afternoon in Moab Utah where she had lived for several years near her son and his family. She and her husband, Victor, came to the community from Salt Lake City where they were in the religious house. They went to Cusak, WA when the project began there and she worked as a Vista volunteer. Victor died in 1980. In 1982 she took assignment to Samoa and then to Tonga, returning in 1985 and living in Denver. She moved to Moab several years ago to be near family. She has been sick for some time and while there is sorrow on our part that she has left us, we also rejoice that her earthly pain is over. She leaves two sons and a daughter and many colleagues who remember her keen understanding and her passion for justice wherever she was.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Grace and Peace,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Clare Whitney, Denver</font></div>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>