[Oe List ...] Completed Life of Ruth Kloepfer

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I've been off line for several days.  It's sad and not sad to celebrate the end of the life of such a great person.  Our love to you, Jean and the rest of the family.
I'll be sure Father Michael knows of her death.  He speaks of her often, and remembers that trip to New Orleans so long ago.

Marge Philbrook
 
-----Original Message-----
>From: Jean Watts <jeanwatts at cox.net>
>Sent: Jun 2, 2006 2:27 PM
>To: oe at wedgeblade.net
>Cc: earthrise at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Oe List ...] Completed Life of Ruth Kloepfer
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>Dear colleagues,
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>It is with deep love that we announce the passing of my mother, Ruth
>Kloepfer on May 23, 2006. Ruth was a long time, active member of the Orange
>Grove Monthly Meeting spiritual family and the Ecumenical Institute/ICA. She
>attended all of the Institute's Summer Research Assemblies, invited the
>Order into her home when they established a Religious House in New Orleans,
>and cherished all the work of the Institute, especially the New Religious
>Mode materials.
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>Ruth lost her balance and broke her left forearm on May 16. She did well
>during the surgery and had started rehab at a transitional care facility in
>Pasadena when she died suddenly during the night. She was 91 at the time of
>her death but would have been 92 in less than three months. She died the day
>before her seventieth wedding anniversary.
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>A Memorial Service is scheduled for June 10, 2006, 1:30 p.m. at Orange Grove
>Meetinghouse, 520 E Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA. Child care will be
>available
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>If you are so moved, please bring finger foods/desserts to share following
>the service.
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>In addition, Ruth loved flowers and it has been requested, if possible, that
>attendees to the service bring flowers from home gardens. When she was
>married, seventy years ago, her brothers and sisters say that the church was
>overflowing with home grown flowers and it would be a loving tribute to her
>life.
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>To reach Orange Grove Meetinghouse from the 210 Freeway, take the Lake
>Avenue exit going north towards the mountains. at the stoplight, turn west
>(left) on Orange Grove Boulevard. The meetinghouse is on the southeast
>corner of Oakland and Orange Grove.
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>Jean Watts
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>504/913-7828
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