[Oe List ...] Elaine Richmond

[nancy]

Dear Ray,
    Our deepest regrets to you  and to Elaine's boys on her death. Such a shock for you all!  But what a rich contribution she made to the Order wherever she was!
    Grace and peace to you and the family,
        Bill and Nan Grow
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  From: E B 
  To: Order Ecumenical Community 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Elaine Richmond


        This is very sad news indeed. I remember her fondly. She was one warm welcoming face when we were newly arrived at Kemper.
        May she rest in peace and the family be comforted with much love and memories she left behind.
        Elsa Batica

        --- On Wed, 9/22/10, LAURELCG at aol.com <LAURELCG at aol.com> wrote:


          From: LAURELCG at aol.com <LAURELCG at aol.com>
          Subject: [Oe List ...] Elaine Richmond
          To: Oe at wedgeblade.net, dialogue at wedgeblade.net
          Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 2:15 PM


          I received this from Sharon Fisher this morning.  Blessings, Jann

          Sad news to share. Could you post this on ICA/OE networks, Jann? I received this from Ray this morning.



          Life is short. Be quick to love. Make haste to be kind!



          Blessings,

          Sharon





          From: richmonder <richmonder at iinet.net.au>
          Date: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:58 PM
          Subject: Elaine Muriel Richmond died 21/09/2010
          To: RAY and ARLISS GOFF <radd4goff at msn.com>, Sharon Fisher <saf1220 at gmail.com>
          Cc: Hilton & Pam Scott <scottwillow at cci.net.au>, Geoff & Dawn Richmond <dawnr at nelsonbay.com>, Mal & Val Richmond vrichmon at bigpond.net.au


          To my family and colleagues in Australia and the United States of America.



          Elaine and I set off from home to our Church at West End in Brisbane last Sunday afternoon and before we had gone 2 of 30 miles, I changed course for the local emergency hospital. Elaine was admitted and examined and within 45 minutes was in an ambulance headed for the Intensive Care Unit at Mater Hospital in Brisbane at 90 kph.  My daughter Sandra and I kept vigil by her side, talking with her on occasions between nurse and doctor attentions, and on Monday and Tuesday we sang her favourite song "The Rose". Elaine died at 9:30pm Tuesday 21st September following a mostly conscious journey with pain management attended by her magnificent doctor specialists and nurses and the faith of a saint in adversity.



          I have now returned home to an empty house and I know I will need help and seek it.  Sandra, Karen and some friends and I are planning a funeral/memorial probably for next Wednesday one week from today at the West End Uniting Church and intend to send her urn of ashes to her brother Raymond Goff in St. Paul MIN for a later placement with her parents graveyard in Cable Wisconsin. This was her wish.



          I am blessed with wonderful family and friends and 33 years of companionship with Elaine; a woman of extraordinary accomplishments and the best Christian Theologian and servant in the Way of Jesus I have ever encountered.  A professional teacher and practitioner of Facilitation.



          Raymond & Arlis, would you distribute this to our family in the USA please, for I have incomplete addresses. Thank you. Pam, Mal, Geoff, would you distribute this to others in Oz as you see fit. Thank you. Sharon Fisher, would you distribute as you see fit in the Pacific Northwest. Thank you.



          Please ask for details of funeral/memorial date at richmonder at iinet.net.au or phone (07)3488-2300 if you are able to attend.



          Ray Richmond. Cleveland, QLD


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