Milestones

Notices of births, adoptions, marriages/unions, and deaths of Friends.

Instructions and a form for submitting Milestones to us.

You may also submit by email to [email protected], by fax to (215) 568-1377, or by postal mail to Milestones Editor, Friends Journal, 1216 Arch Street, Suite 2D, Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835. There is no charge for Friends Journal milestone listings.

Hugh Stewart Barbour

Barbour—Hugh Stewart Barbour, 99, January 8, 2021, calmly in his sleep while a resident of Kendal on Hudson in Sleepy…

Mary Lou Goertzen

Goertzen—Mary Lou Goertzen, 91, Oct. 20, 2020, at home in “the blue schoolhouse” in Deadwood, Ore. She was buried next…

Thomas (Tom) Lowes Kenworthy

Kenworthy—Thomas (Tom) Lowes Kenworthy, 84, December 28, 2020, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. Tom was born on April…

Jeffrey Meyer

Meyer—Jeffrey Meyer, 82, on December 17, 2020, at home with wife Cathy and son Joel by his side, in Davidson,…

Elizabeth (Betsy) H. Call Wolgast

Wolgast – Elizabeth (Betsy) H. Call Wolgast, 91, on October 13, 2020, from complications following a stroke, in a convalescent…

Nagendran “Gulen” Gulendran

Gulendran—Nagendran “Gulen” Gulendran, 85, on January 6, 2021, in his sleep at home in Philadelphia, Pa. Gulen was born on…

Martha Perry Gwyn

Gwyn—Martha Perry Gwyn, 96, on September 5, 2020, following a short battle with COVID-19 at the Carol Woods Retirement Home…

Edwin Dudley Hale

Hale—Edwin Dudley Hale, 86, January 6, 2020, from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, in Mountain View, Calif. Ed was born…

Margine (Mardi) Copeland McVey Holland

Holland—Margine (Mardi) Copeland McVey Holland, peacefully on Sept. 17, 2020. Mardi was born to H.B. and Margine McVey on June…

Blaine William Nelson

Nelson—Blaine William Nelson, 77, on Sept. 28, 2020, from pancreatic cancer, at home in El Paso, Tex. Nancy Neptune Nelson,…

Elizabeth R.S. Richards

Richards—Elizabeth R.S. Richards, 98, on June 18, 2020, while residing in Friendship Village Tempe, Tempe, Ariz. Elizabeth was born on…

Virginia Joyce Schurman

Schurman—Virginia Joyce Schurman, 79, on September 26, 2020, at Broadmead, a Quaker-guided continuing care community in Cockeysville, Md. Virginia was…
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