September 1, 2003 George Alexander Black

George Alexander Black, a university professor who specialized in French literature and church music and served on several national Anglican church committees, died on July 1 in Paris at the age of 72. Mr. Black served on...

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June 1, 2003 Hywel J. Jones

Hywel J. Jones, who was elected bishop of the diocese of British Columbia in 1980 and retired four years later, died on April 23 of kidney failure. He was 85. When he was elected, he said the diocese wasn't "quite ready" for...

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May 1, 2003 Walter Heath Jones

Retired archbishop Walter Heath Jones died on March 22 at the age of 74 as a result of injuries suffered in a skiing accident near Flagstaff, Ariz. Archbishop Jones was known for his strong emphasis on stewardship and work...

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May 1, 2003 Marion Cooper Krafft

Marion Cooper Krafft, 88, a deaconess and life member of the Women's Auxiliary in Saskatchewan, died on March 5 in Mississauga, Ont. She attended Anglican Women's Training College in Toronto and was ordained to the deaconate...

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April 1, 2003 Christine Wilna Hodgson

Those who planned Willy Hodgson's funeral knew her life had touched so many people that the local Anglican church would not be able to hold all her mourners. So the service was held at the larger Moose Jaw Alliance Church, with...

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April 1, 2003 John Stirling Ridout

John Stirling Ridout, 76, a former member of the Anglican Foundation board and an active volunteer on many national Anglican committees, died of prostate cancer in Toronto on Feb. 21. "He was a gentleman in the truest sense of...

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January 1, 2003 Bishop Harold Jones

Bishop Harold Jones, retired bishop of the Episcopal diocese of South Dakota and the first American Indian to be elevated to the office of bishop by any Christian denomination died in November. He was 92. "He lived the...

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November 1, 2002 Roland Arthur Wood

Roland Arthur Wood, bishop of Saskatoon between 1981 and 1992, died in September in a Saskatoon hospital. He was 69. Bishop Wood?s death came two weeks after surgery revealed he was suffering from cancer of the pancreas. ...

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October 1, 2002 John Rye: Love of mission, love for Africa

Watching John Rye at work in Africa was an experience like nothing else. He was a huge and volatile weather system in human form, soothing and soft one moment, stern, correct, formal the next, then changing to the balmiest...

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September 1, 2002 Obituaries

Leslie Peterson Leslie Peterson, former bishop of Algoma, died of a heart attack on July 25 in London, Ont. after returning home from a visit with family and friends in British Columbia. He was 73. A funeral service was held...

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