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Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce on May 13 was formally awarded a doctor of ministry degree from Seabury Western Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Her thesis investigated the development of alternative and emergent church liturgies and creative ministry expressions in the Diocese of Los Angeles. “I started this D.Min. five years ago this summer and completed […]
Dec. 18, 1933 – May 3, 2011 The Rt. Rev. Robert Marshall Anderson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota from 1978 to 1993 and a former assisting bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles, died May 3 in Minneapolis of pancreatic cancer. He was 77. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Mary Artemis […]
September 16, 1926 – April 1, 2011 A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at St. Margaret’s Church, Palm Desert, for Frank V. Marshall, Jr., who served the Diocese of Los Angeles as its treasurer and a five-time deputy to General Convention. Marshall died April 1 at age […]
May 20, 1942 – March 27, 2011 The Rev. Canon Howard J. Happ, Ph.D, a priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles for nearly 40 years and a distinguished professor of religious studies, died March 27 at the Canterbury Episcopal Home Community in Rancho Palos Verdes, where he was a resident. He died peacefully in […]
January 18, 1927 – March 3, 2011 The Rev. John Noble, a retired priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles and a former rector of St. Clement’s Church in Huntington Park, died March 3 in Bend, Oregon, where he and his wife, Coralee, have been living in recent years. Noble was 84. He is survived by […]
May 23, 1923 – January 28, 2011 Canon Wesley J. Hartley, a longtime lay leader and director of the Corporation of the Diocese, died Jan. 28. He was 87. Survivors include his daughter Janet, son Robert and granddaughter Emma. He was predeceased by his wife, Margaret, and another daughter, Barbara. Requiem Eucharist was celebrated on […]
d. January 8, 2011 Carlotita Mann, wife of Canon Peter Mann, died on January 8 after a long illness. Survivors include her husband, their children Sarah, Peter and William, and their families. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30, at St. Matthew’s Church, Pacific Palisades. Long active in ministries of […]
1917 – 2011 Nellie Anne Saville, widow of the Rev. Canon J. Kimball Saville, died on January 7 at age 93. She is survived by the Savilles’ four children, who are active with their spouses in their various Episcopal parishes: Susan Remsberg (Bruce), Debbie Richards (Greg), Mary Irvin-Baker (Bill), and John Saville (Kathleen), and by […]
1935 – 2011 Paul Egertson, retired bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, died suddenly on Jan. 5 at his home in Thousand Oaks, California. Survivors include his wife, Shirley, and their six sons, and all the Egertson family. Bishop Egertson led the ELCA’s Glendale-based Southwest California Synod from […]
When Dorris Dann began a second career in 1987 working at Our Saviour Center, an outreach program of Immanuel Episcopal Church in El Monte, supported by The Church of Our Saviour in San Gabriel, it served the community only as a food bank. By 1989 she had seen a need and added children’s services, homeless services […]
Veterans’ Day Chapel service at St. Martin’s in the Fields Episcopal School in Winnetka took on a meaning close to home as students honored their friend Joshua Cullins, an LAPD officer and Marine who was killed in Afghanistan two weeks ago. Older brother to a current St. Martin’s seventh grader, Cullins had made many trips […]
April 2, 1914 – October 12, 2010 Elaine Friedrich, president of the Episcopal Church Women in the 1960s, active layperson for 70 years, and both wife and mother of priests, died Oct. 12. She was 96. Friedrich was born and raised in Red Wing, Minnesota, attended Northwestern University, and married the Rev. James K. Friedrich. […]
