<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dearest Marilyn, <div>We know that the feeling of sadness and numbness feels as if it is enveloping you at the moment. </div><div>This is a hard time for you and we send our loving condolences as you mourn your beloved’s passing into the glorious light. </div><div>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! </div><div>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. </div><div>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 ‘</div><div>With grateful hearts, </div><div>Isobel Jim and family. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Isobel Bishop<div>Mob. 0412 129 425</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 29 Apr 2023, at 6:02 am, Mari Crocker via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div class="">Dear Colleagues on the Long March of Love,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class="">Ben, Jon and I were with him for most of that time, and it was a deeply meaning-filled experience of remembering with gratitude. </div><div class="">All 4 grandchildren and both daughters-in-law were able to visit early in the process of our “watching, waiting and standing present". </div><div class="">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 <i class="">Amazing Grace</i>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">God gives, and God takes away, and we give thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Grace and Peace,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marilyn </div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OE mailing list</span><br><span>OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</span><br><span>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>