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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Mary and Daniel, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This obituary is a beautiful tribute to your father. A favorite poem by Indian poet Tagore came to mind as I read it which begins:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> On the day when death knocks at thy door, what will you offer him? …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ___I will offer him the full vessel of my life. I will not let him go with empty hands…
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (<i><u>Gitanjali</u>, by Rabindranath Tagore, Poems 89-96)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We give thanks for the full and meaning-filled life of service your father lived. My most recent memory is of working with him on the Archives Project several years ago when small groups of us worked together
at the now GreenRise Building at 4570 N. Sheridan in Chicago. He was in a small group working on the Local Church Experiment as I recall.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How exciting to read of his work with the Middle East Task Force for the Presbyterian Church. We will gladly make a contribution in his honor to that project of building libraries in Palestine.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://www.serajlibraries.org/donate">https://www.serajlibraries.org/donate</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif"> as well as to the Archives
Project in Chicago. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif">Our care and sympathy to you and your family as you celebrate your father’s life, We plan to be with you on zoom.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif">Grace and peace,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif">Lynda and John Cock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of Randy Williams via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, September 8, 2024 at 10:01</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Randy Williams <randycw1938@gmail.com>, Dan Bigelow <kidbigelow@gmail.com>, OE Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>, Mary Bigelow <maryjbigelow@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Daniel and Mary invite you to celebrate the completed life of William Longley Bigelow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Of all the inspired and inspiring obituaries of our departed colleagues that I’ve been privileged to read, this one, for whatever reason, has moved me the most deeply. Farewell, William Longley Bigelow, Bill,
whom I scarcely knew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Randy Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif">You are invited to join us in the celebration of the completion of the life of William Longley Bigelow.</span></span><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"MicrosoftSansSerif",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif">Memorial for William Longley Bigelow</span></span><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"MicrosoftSansSerif",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif">Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 3:00 pm</span></span><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"MicrosoftSansSerif",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif">For those who can not be with us in person…</span></span><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"MicrosoftSansSerif",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif">Passcode: 141190</span></span><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"MicrosoftSansSerif",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif">Link: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7468538442?pwd=ODhhajFPVGlwZERTdHAwNWR2Yks3Zz09">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7468538442?pwd=ODhhajFPVGlwZERTdHAwNWR2Yks3Zz09</a></span></span><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"MicrosoftSansSerif",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif">Daniel V Bigelow and </span></span><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif">Mary J Bigelow</span><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"MicrosoftSansSerif",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">Thursday, August 29, at 3AM God called home our father, Rev. William Longley Bigelow. Born of John and Frances Bigelow, in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He was 83 and
is survived by his favorite daughter Mary J and number one son Daniel V, of Chicago and Los Angeles respectively.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">He attended Oberlin College as a Philosophy major, and the Pacific School of Religion where he got his Masters of Divinity. Bill was a lifelong student of theology
and world religions; living his life dedicated to social justice as a Presbyterian Minister, Ecumenical Missionary, and High School Teacher.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">During seminary he joined Martin Luther King Jr’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) where he learned to use nonviolent resistance, civil disobedience
and grassroots organizing to promote racial equality. There he registered voters, desegregated buses and faced violent reprisals from those who disagreed with the civil rights organization.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">He then took his first assignment as a minister in San Francisco, where he met and married professional musician and journalist, Christine D’Harlingue (nee Selsor),
with whom he eventually had two children. He was called to a church in Haight-Ashbury, so they soon moved to the corner of Haight and Ashbury in the middle of the Summer of Love.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">Following a tradition in our family that goes back generations, Dad was a dedicated missionary. For 15 years he traveled around the US and internationally with
the Ecumenical Institute and Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA). Their mission was centered around community development rather than spreading religion, demonstrating what people can achieve when they work together. The ICA assigned Dad (and us variously)
to Chicago, IL; Madison, WI; Saint Louis, MO; American Samoa; Phoenix, AZ; Taipei, Taiwan and Houston, TX, among others.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">Dad spent a few years teaching high school at Chimney Rock Center, a home for teens in crisis in Houston, TX. In fact he served as a substitute teacher in high
schools all over the Houston Independent School District. As a preacher he ministered to churches in Genoa, NY; Yankeetown, FL and Brookfield, IL.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">In his retirement Bill filled pulpits around the Chicago area when needed; substitute preaching sermons and singing solos at his local church - Mayfair Presbyterian.
Dad enjoyed bible study with a group of theologians and retired ministers who call themselves the Bible Boys. He also maintained friendships with a number of Chicago’s unhoused people.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church’s Middle East Task Force for many years. It was set up to encourage study and dialogue in response to the Middle
East conflict. He traveled to several countries there and cared deeply about fostering a just peace. Please make a donation in his honor to the Seraj Library Project, who build libraries in Palestine. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:#1155CC">https://www.serajlibraries.org/donate</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif;color:black">Since the Pandemic we’ve been meeting as a family on FaceTime every other week. Dan & Ronnie, Mary & Jimmie, Uri, Mama Kiki & Uncle Mark will miss him terribly,
and love him forever.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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