The Rev. Edwin Cabaniss Coleman, who labored for racial integration in Charleston, South Carolina, within the Nineteen Sixties, died March 15 at 95.
He was a local of Jackson, Mississippi, and an alumnus of Louisiana State College and the College of the South’s College of Theology. He was ordained deacon in 1953 and priest in 1954. A household obituary mentioned that Coleman’s bishop ordered him, as a seminarian, to affix a blind date with Mary Lou Alexandre (Alex) Parker. They had been married for 65 years, till her loss of life.
In 1958 he was known as as rector of St. John’s in Faculty Park, Georgia, a struggling church on the south facet of Atlanta. The church grew to greater than 1,000 members underneath his management. He was known as in 1965 to turn into rector of St. Michael’s Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, however he initially refused the decision as a result of the parish was segregated. He agreed to turn into rector after the church modified its bylaws.
When the Southern Christian Management Convention got here to Charleston in 1969 to assist putting hospital employees, Coleman led a Sunday morning “pray-in.” Some sacristy members urged locking the doorways, however Coleman as a substitute welcomed the parish’s Black guests and invited them to attend espresso hour after the service.
Within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, Coleman served as clergy adviser to Schooling for Ministry and Cursillo. In 1985, Coleman turned affiliate rector of St. George’s Church in Nashville. He served twice as interim rector in periods of transition. Semi-retired within the 2000s, he served as a priest at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Nashville.
He’s survived by three sons, a daughter, 5 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
The Rev. Dcn. Charles Robert (Bob) Cook dinner, a U.S. Military veteran who lived in Sidney, Nebraska, for many of his life and led its faculty board, died February 19 at 94.
He was a local of Potlatch, Idaho, and a graduate of Chadron State Faculty and the College of Northern Colorado. He met Marian Stanker at a faculty dance, and so they married in 1953. He was an athlete throughout his faculty years, and his grasp’s diploma was in bodily schooling.
Cook dinner served within the military at Fort Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. After his military discharge, Cook dinner accepted teaching positions in Colorado and Nebraska, together with a six-year stint as head basketball in Sidney. He developed a 41-year profession in actual property. He was a seven-year member of the Sidney College Board and was its president twice. Throughout these years, he was a Sunday faculty trainer and senior warden at Christ Episcopal Church in Sidney. He was ordained deacon in 2004. In retirement, the Cooks moved to Nevada after which Arizona.
Cook dinner is survived by his spouse, two sons, 5 grandchildren, and a great-grandson.
The Rev. Deborah H. Piggins, who suggested nonprofit ministries earlier than her ordination to the priesthood, died February 15 at 79.
She was a local of Montclair, New Jersey, and earned each a bachelor’s and a grasp’s diploma from Rutgers College. She studied for the priesthood at Normal Theological Seminary.
She fashioned a one-person firm known as Working, during which she supplied strategic steerage to nonprofit businesses. She additionally labored for in publicity for the writer E.P. Dutton.
She was ordained deacon in 2005 and priest in 2006. She started her ministry as an assistant rector, however later served as interim rector at a number of parishes in New Jersey. She is survived by a sister, two nieces, and a nephew.
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Douglas LeBlanc is the Affiliate Editor for E-book Opinions and writes about Christianity and tradition. He and his spouse, Monica, attend St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Henrico, Virginia.
