[Dialogue] In Memoriam: Jack and Mary Lois Shepp - and a request

[Janice Ulangca]

There is a request to share some ways that "the movement celebrated completed lives" - and perhaps it would be valuable for us all to do that sharing.  See the next to last paragraph for the request.
Janice Ulangca


Jack and Mary Lois Shepp

Outside of New York State, ICA colleagues may not have known them.  But in Area New York, the Rochester Region, the Binghamton Metro, Jack and Mary Lois Shepp were creative, passionate, fun, ready for anything to renew the church for the sake of the world.  Jack was a manager at IBM, Mary Lois artistic, energetic, and both so enthusiastic about RS-1 that they badgered Abe and me into going.  I was hooked immediately - Abe more cautiously took another RS-1 before he was fully supportive.  The Ulangcas and the Shepps had too much radical excitement to be well-received in our proper suburban congregation - but we kept each other going.

Mary Lois and I made gazillion calls on wary clergy on behalf of several PLCs (Parish Leadership Colloquy) held in this area and all of us helped with recruitment and enablement of RS-1s.  We worked with Carl and Judy Hickey, who were priors in the Rochester House and with folks from the Albany NY area - Norm and Judy Lindblad, Ken and Dorcas Rose, Dick and Ellen Howie.  Carl and Ellie Stock were part of the Rochester local church experiment that inspired us all.  In the Metro Cadre we worked with John and Marge Kloepfer and with Dick and Amelia Kroeger and Dick's wonderful mother Garnet.  Justin and Delores Morrill were our area priors in New York City.

Jack and Mary Lois had four children, and all knew of and I think were enriched by learnings from EI/ICA.  The youngest, Martha, recently sent me word that both her parents had died within the last year.  I was concerned when I did not hear from them last Christmas and an e-mail bounced, but didn't know how to get in touch.  The Shepps moved from here in the mid 1970s, Jack worked in Oak Ridge, TN and they spent most of their retirement years there.  

Here are some excerpts from Martha's messages:

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Hi Janice!

Martha Shepp here. I have recently gotten tuned in by meeting Don Clark's wife, Suemi, in a completely different context; through a spiritual group who had been helping Don in his illness, (called sukyo mahikari). 

I'm living in NH and teaching high school. Just started this August, after earning my MFA in art at U of Tennessee, Knoxville, where I'd been living, near mom and dad since 1983.

And now I would like to let you know that ...  dad passed away May 12 (2007) ...  

So I'm on the listserves of ICA OE etc and enjoying the connection with Truth. Hope to be in touch again ...

Martha

Please let it be known of the completed life of Mary Lois Shepp, who passed March 2. There will be a memorial service in Oak Ridge middle of June. Please remind me of how the Movement celebrated completed lives, as I would like to incorporate this in her service. If you can help or refer me to this, I'd be so grateful, Janice!  

Martha
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I salute you, Jack and Mary Lois, together with all the colleagues whose names I don't know - who in their own geographies responded with energy and excitement to the vision of a movement that could make a profound difference in the world.

Janice 


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Janice Ulangca
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Vestal, NY  13850
607-797-4595
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