<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Beautiful and thank you Jim-in memory of Bruce. <div>I also did not know that Bruce was an ordained Minister. Thank you for enlarging my spirit. </div><div>In peace, thanks be to God for these two saints, Bruce and my hubby Jim. </div><div><br></div><div>Isobel in Sydney where it is very humid. </div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Isobel Bishop<div>Mob. 0412 129 425</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 18 Jan 2024, at 2:28 pm, 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">Liz and Martha, thank you for this update about Bruce Donnelly’s passing.<div><br></div><div>I realize now how little we knew of our colleagues, with whom we worshipped and worked, day after day, in the Order.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I celebrate the full life of service he gave in so many ways, over so many years. Thank you Bruce Donnelly, for being you.</div><div><br></div><div>Marilyn Crocker<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 17, 2024, at 6:54 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto">I remember, especially, Bruce’s twinkly eyes and his way of standing at an angle . . .<div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>“Oh what fellowship, oh what joy divine</div><div>Leaning on the everlasting arms…”</div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Jim Wiegel</span><br><div><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“…the long work<br>
of turning their lives<br>
into a celebration<br>
is not easy. Come </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">and let us talk</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">“. </span></p><p class="p1"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver</span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 17, 2024, at 2:45 PM, Elizabeth Caperton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div dir="ltr">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
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