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Written: 10/16/2009
By Kathy Noble Oct. 14, 2009 | NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) Bishop Eugene M. Frank, the first president of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church, died Oct. 13 at Kingswood Manor in Kansas City, Mo. At 101, Frank was the oldest United Methodist bishop. When he was elected in 1...
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Written: 9/16/2009
Delwin Brown, dean emeritus of Pacific School of Religion (PSR), died at his home in San Rafael, California on September 12, of colon cancer. As a lay theologian equally at ease in academia and in the public square, Brown was a leading national voice of progressive Christianity. Born in Indiana in ...
Memorial Service for Lee Williamson Set
Written: 8/12/2009
Memorial service arrangements have been made for the Rev. Lee Williamson, a retired pastor in the California-Nevada Annual Conference who died suddenly on July 29 at age 70. He was the recipient of the 2009 Bishop Talbert Award for Racial Justice, presented at Annual Conference Session in June.
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Written: 7/30/2009
The recipient of the 2009 Bishop Talbert Award, the Rev. Lee Williamson, died unexpectedly at his home, early yesterday morning (Wednesday, July 29, 2009). He was 70 years of age. He is survived by his wife, Arlene Williamson, along with two adult children, son Roy and daughter V.J. and th...
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Written: 5/1/2009
Pete Taylor, Lay Leader for the California-Nevada Annual Conference for eight years, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 29 at 11 a.m., according to his beloved wife, Veronica. He was 80 years of age. Remembered as a man who loved The United Methodist Church, was deeply committed to racial ...
Memorial Service on Thursday for Active Pastor in California-Nevada Conference
Written: 3/23/2009
The Rev. Jong-Ho Kim, pastor of Ohnnury Mission United Methodist Church in San Francisco - which meets at Park Presidio UMC - died suddenly last Thursday (March 19).
His memorial service is being planned by the Korean Caucus and has been scheduled for this Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m. at ...
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Written: 3/6/2009
A UMNS Report By Linda Green* March 3, 2009 Bishop Melvin E. Wheatley Jr., a champion of gay rights in The United Methodist Church, died March 1 after a prolonged illness. Wheatley, 93, retired, had been residing in a private board and care residence in Mission Viejo, California but called Lagu...
Memorial Service Tomorrow for Member of Communications Commission
Written: 11/14/2008
We have just received news of the death, last Tuesday, of Theresa Thibodeaux, a member of the Conference Communications Commission and of the Conference Committee on Nominations. Her Memorial Service is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, November 15, at 2 p.m., at her home church, Taylor Memoria...
Services Held Saturday for Bush Library Opponent
Written: 11/4/2008
Funeral services for the Rev. Andrew Weaver of New York were conducted on Saturday (Nov. 1, 2008) at Chinese United Methodist Church in Manhattan, where his wife, the Rev. Carolyn Stapleton, is associate pastor.
Weaver, 61, who died Oct. 22 of cardiac arrest, served churches in the California-Neva...
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Written: 12/20/2007
Three women … their stories intertwined. Two were embarking on United Methodist Ministry as a second career. One was a career licensed school counselor in Arizona who later moved to California; the other was a Human Resource career employee in Virginia. Both had married and had a daughter a...
Cal-Nevada UMVIM volunteer and environmental champion Jim Roberts dies
Written: 12/5/2007
The United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) program of the California-Nevada Annual Conference has lost one of its most dedicated servants. Jim Roberts, a lay minister at St. Mark’s UMC in Sacramento, died Nov. 25. He succumbed to a brain tumor at age 73 after giving his family gifts of gold ...
Cal-Nevada mourns 'pioneering' retired clergywoman
Written: 10/10/2007
“She was a pioneer”: one of the tributes to The Rev. Virginia Y. Hilton, a retired California-Nevada United Methodist pastor who died Sunday following a lengthy illness.
A graduate of Pacific School of Religion, Rev. Hilton became a Probationary Member of the Cal-Nevada Conference in 1976...
Cal-Nevada mourns beloved pastor
Written: 10/8/2007
The California-Nevada Conference today is mourning the sudden death of a beloved pastor.
The Rev. Basel J. Rafeedy, pastor of the Etna and Fort Jones United Methodist churches, died at Fairchild Medical Center in Yreka following a one-vehicle accident Friday morning, according to the Califo...
Cal-Nevada loses a "conspicuous" Volunteer
Written: 9/17/2007
The family and extended family of Lyle Morris gathered last month to remember a man whose name had come to be synonymous with United Methodist Volunteers in Mission in the California-Nevada Annual Conference.
Mr. Morris died August 25, 2007, ending his valiant struggle with cancer. He, alon...
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Written: 7/24/2007
Doug Adams, professor of Christianity and the arts at Pacific School of Religion for 31 years, died at the home of friends in Jackson, CA on July 24, 2007. As a scholar and teacher, Adams played a leading role internationally in the field of religion and the arts, and was beloved by generations of s...
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Written: 5/10/2007
By Eleanor Boswell-Raines On Sunday, May 6, former California Assembly Chaplain Dr. Hamilton T. Boswell passed peacefully in his sleep. He was 92 years old and resided in the Pt. Richmond neighborhood of Richmond, CA. Dr. Boswell and his family arrived in San Francisco in the post-Wo...
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Written: 4/11/2007
(UMNS) - The Rev. J. Harry Haines, director of the United Methodist Committee on Relief from 1966 to 1983, died March 29 at the age of 89. He suffered a heart attack in Eugene, Ore., where he and his wife, Loma, lived in retirement. "Harry Haines was a saint, a model of Christian commitment, hard...
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Written: 4/11/2007
By United Methodist News Service Bishop Christopher Jokomo, 64, former episcopal leader for The United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe, died April 7 at his home in Harare. The current episcopal leader, Bishop Eben Nhiwatiwa, was working with the family on arrangements for the funeral, which was sched...