[Oe List ...] Bruce Gilles

[Sandra]

Bob and I have you in our thoughts and prayers as you mourn and celebrate the completed life of your brother Bruce. Sandra

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jack Gilles <icabombay at igc.org>
>Sent: Mar 28, 2010 9:55 AM
>To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>Subject: [Oe List ...] Bruce Gilles
>
>Dear Colleagues (my family).
>
>My only brother Bruce died this morning at 5 AM.  He had just been  
>brought home for hospice care as he was suffering from congestive  
>heart failure and more recently cancer.  He was 73, having been born  
>on September 4th 1936.  He lived his whole life in Meadville PA except  
>for some work time in New Jersey and in Alaska, where as a civil  
>engineer he worked on the Alsakan pipeline.  He loved the out of  
>doors, walking, swimming, and hunting.  Besides civil engineering,  
>which was always his true love, he taught in high schools in the  
>Meadville area when there was not construction work he could do.  He  
>is survived my his wife Carol and two sons, Tom (and his wife Carrie)  
>who also resides in the Meadville area, and Jim, who lives in Alaska.   
>Judy and I are leaving Mexico today and will travel to Meadville on  
>Monday.  Funeral plans are not complete at this time.
>
>I am resting easy in the arms of God, and I know my brother is  
>participating in the eternal life.
>
>Grace and Peace,
>
>
>Jack
>
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