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November 2000
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Deaths:
CORY Sara Pettit, 91, Friends Meeting of Washington, DC, died September
12, 2000. A lifelong member of the Religious Society of Friends, she and
her husband Robert H. Cory, Jr. co-founded the William Penn House, the
Quaker seminar and hospitality center on Capitol Hill. A longtime demonstrator
for peace, "Sally" was described as "soft-spoken but of
immovable persuasion." Born Sara Elizabeth Pettit on May 4, 1909,
the eighth of nine children of Carrol L. and Mary Smith Pettit, she was
raised on a dairy farm in Woodstown, N.J. Her parents became Quakers when
she was four. She graduated in 1931 from the New Jersey College for Women,
now part of Rutgers, earning a degree in home economics. For ten years
she managed a cafeteria, taught in New Jersey schools, participated in
summer Quaker work camps. While cooking at Pendle Hill, she met Robert
Cory and they married in 1943. She remained active in the Friends Meeting
of Washington on Florida Avenue. Survivors include her four children,
Eric, Lincoln, Lois Cory Nashorn, and Barton, and six grandchildren. Memorials
may be made to Martha's Table, 2114 14th St., Washington, DC 20009.
CRADLER Elizabeth, Whittier First Friends, California, died August 24, 2000. Born August 6, 1927 to Quaker parents, Alberta and Seneca Winder in Marion, Indiana, she attended Marion First Friends until moving with her parents to Los Angeles in early 1940 and becoming a member of Whittier Friends. She married Jim Cradler in the spring of 1950. Liz served in many capacities at First Friends--Membership, Trustees, Nominating, Christian Education, USFW, Ministry & Oversight, Kitchen, and Memorial Reception. In 1991, the local USFW presented Liz a lifetime membership award. She was also a volunteer with Meals on Wheels and as a Pink Lady with the LaHabra Hospital. Survivors include: her husband, James; two daughters, Christine and Karen; five grandchildren, Greg, Sarah, Amanda, Jennifer, and Colin; and one sister, Esther Winder Nelson.
LYON Robert Arneson, 79, of Asheville Friends, North Carolina, died Saturday, August 19, 2000. Bob served as a member of the FWCC Staff in a volunteer role as Development Secretary beginning in 1987, and continued to serve on the Development Committee after failing health forced him to cut back on traveling. Over the years he was involved with Earlham College, AFSC and Pendle Hill--those around him drew upon his experience in development work and his Quaker connections. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Ernst Lyon; four sons, Christopher, Stephen, James, and Jonathan Lyon; a brother, Elliott Lyon of Center Harbor, N.H.; and four grandchildren.
WOOTEN Archie Dale, 62, of Forbush Friends, North Carolina, died Tuesday, August 29, 2000. He was born in Yadkin County, North Carolina, on January 28, 1938. Survivors include his parents, Benbow J. and Sadie Davis; two sisters, Hilda (Mickey) Smitherman and Nellie (Tom) Hall; a brother, Davis (Glenda) Wooten; nieces and nephews, Loris (Danny) Coe, Michael (Samyra) Matthews, Maurice (Shonda) Smitherman, Brian Wooten and Evan (Misty) Wooten; two great-nephews, MacKenzie Matthews, and Ryan Coe; and many special uncles, aunts. Memorials may be made to Forbush Friends Meeting Cemetery Fund, c/o Mary Wooten, 2821 Mill Hill Road, East Bend, NC 27018.
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