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[Quaker-Concern] Summer 2014 Quaker Concern

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Published on Friday, 29 August 2014 10:20
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Dear Friends,

Attached is the Summer 2014 issue of Quaker Concern with news and updates from all of our work and from the Canadian Yearly Meeting sessions recently held in Winnipeg. We will also take this opportunity to share the following news:

Photo: We are saddened to share this news with you, Friends. Please feel welcome to share it. David wanted as many Canadian Friends as possible to be informed. ~ Jane Orion ======= Dear Friends, Susan Stevenson, Mentoring Clerk of Canadian Yearly Meeting and a member of Vernon Monthly Meeting, died early Friday morning, August 29th, in hospital in Nelson, British Columbia, where she had been admitted early Tuesday morning. She had been living with a return of cancer over the past 8 months and continued to actively fulfill her roles as Presiding Clerk until the rise of Yearly meeting two weeks ago, then Mentoring Clerk. Both Susan and David, her husband, have felt greatly blessed in the many ways they have been supported through this journey, by messages from Friends across the country, by their local community, by the health care system, and by the thoughtful care given. David asked that Friends be informed as soon as possible of Susan’s passing, and of their gratitude for this support. Those of us who have worked closely with Susan over the years will greatly miss her - her groundedness, her thoughtful engagement in our Quaker community, and her deep love of life and the beauty of the biodiversity around her. Please hold the Stevenson family in the Light at this time. In Friendship, Carol Dixon (mentoring clerk of CYM until rise of CYM this summer) Pictured: Susan (top left), with Carol Dixon (bottom left), Elaine Bishop (top right), and Marilyn Manzer (bottom right) at the clerks' table during Canadian Yearly Meeting sessions in 2012. (photo is from the CYM website, quaker.ca)

Pictured: Susan (top left), with Carol Dixon (bottom left), Elaine Bishop (top right), and Marilyn Manzer (bottom right) at the clerks' table during Canadian Yearly Meeting sessions in 2012. (photo is from the CYM website www.quaker.ca)

We are saddened to share this news with you, Friends. Please feel welcome to share it. David wanted as many Canadian Friends as possible to be informed. ~ Jane Orion Smith, General Secretary of CFSC

Dear Friends,

Susan Stevenson, Mentoring Clerk of Canadian Yearly Meeting and a member of Vernon Monthly Meeting, died early Friday morning, August 29th, in hospital in Nelson, British Columbia, where she had been admitted early Tuesday morning. She had been living with a return of cancer over the past 8 months and continued to actively fulfill her roles as Presiding Clerk until the rise of Yearly meeting two weeks ago, then Mentoring Clerk.

Both Susan and David, her husband, have felt greatly blessed in the many ways they have been supported through this journey, by messages from Friends across the country, by their local community, by the health care system, and by the thoughtful care given. David asked that Friends be informed as soon as possible of Susan’s passing, and of their gratitude for this support.

Those of us who have worked closely with Susan over the years will greatly miss her - her groundedness, her thoughtful engagement in our Quaker community, and her deep love of life and the beauty of the biodiversity around her.

Please hold the Stevenson family in the Light at this time.

In Friendship,

Carol Dixon

(Mentoring Clerk of CYM until the rise of CYM in August 2014)


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