[Oe List ...] Bruce Gilles

[Isobel and Jim Bishop]

Dear Jack,
Our loving thoughts are with you,  Judy and Carol and Tom and Jim,  
and their families.
Bruce lived his life well, and I feel sure that he touched the lives  
of those whom he encountered, and their lives were changed by knowing  
him.
Thank you, Jack, for all your wise words written in this listserve.   
You are deeply appreciated by me and us all.
May you all rest in God's grace.

Isobel Bishop.

On 29/03/2010, at 12:55 AM, Jack Gilles wrote:

> 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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