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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>We join in the mighty chorus singing thanks for the lives of Jim and Bruce. After spending years with all of us in our order, they went on to be those who care wherever they were in the world. Wonderful to hear how they lived their one unique and unrepeatable lives. Sending our love to their families.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Peace to all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Jack and Louise Ballard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mari Crocker via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 17, 2024 10:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br><b>Cc:</b> Mari Crocker <maricrocker@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] DONNELLY, Rev. Robert<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Liz and Martha, thank you for this update about Bruce Donnelly’s passing.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I realize now how little we knew of our colleagues, with whom we worshipped and worked, day after day, in the Order.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I never knew Bruce was an ordained minister, much less the “hippy priest” before he joined our fold. I always saw him a “the slick, Development Guy,” who was always on the road visiting Patrons. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But our kids knew differently. Bruce was way ahead of our plodding technology (telexes and WATTS calls). He and his first wife, Barbara, installed a HUGE SCREEN at the end of the hall on the 7th floor in the Kemper Building in Chicago, and invited us to watch all kinds of interesting films, likely then VHS tapes. He introduced our emerging generation (and us ole fogeys) to what is now common practice.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I celebrate the full life of service he gave in so many ways, over so many years. Thank you Bruce Donnelly, for being you.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Marilyn Crocker<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jan 17, 2024, at 6:54 PM, James Wiegel via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I remember, especially, Bruce’s twinkly eyes and his way of standing at an angle . . .<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>An old spiritual, that I don’t remember ever learning, goes round in my head, and sometimes I sing these few lines aloud — at our food bank or just anywhere<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>“Oh what fellowship, oh what joy divine<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Leaning on the everlasting arms…”<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Jim Wiegel</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=p1><span class=s1>“…the long work</span><br><span class=s1>of turning their lives</span><br><span class=s1>into a celebration</span><br><span class=s1>is not easy. Come </span><span style='font-size:19.0pt'>and let us talk“. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=p1><span style='font-size:19.0pt'>The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Jan 17, 2024, at 2:45 PM, Elizabeth Caperton via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Martha Laird just shared with me that Bruce Donnelly died a few days ago. When I saw him in October he said he’d had some serious medical issues but he was the same outgoing host for a reunion of the original Atlanta house. <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I hope the link to his obituary from the newspaper comes through. If not, it is handled through the Sandy Springs Chapel. <a href="https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries?searchtext=donnelly&locationcode=7119">https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries?searchtext=donnelly&locationcode=7119</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I’m attaching the photo of our recent gathering in the fall with Ike & Charlene Powell, Jean Watts, Martha Laird & Bruce. Eileen & George Howard had left before the picture was taken. The papers on the dining room table visible in the background were old ICA brochures he’d kept. <image0.jpeg><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>DONNELLY, Rev. 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