![]() If we’ve missed someone or you find an error in our reporting, please let us know at obituaries are organized alphabetically by last name. Sometimes we don’t hear about a death, particularly when it is of a widowed partner. The Board decided to post only the deaths of our own members (ministers or partners), except that we will report via a brief announcement on the death of a minister who was 65 or older, whether or not a member, and invite the surviving partner to join UURMaPA. The more complete obituary may take several months to prepare. Our volunteer obituary writers attempt to contact family members and friends as they research and prepare a thoughtful remembrance. We post the notice of a death as soon as we are aware of it, along with brief biographical information. Over the years since the inception of UURMaPA, we’ve moved from a simple one- or two-line death notice to a brief paragraph and more recently to more extensive obituaries. UURMaPA maintains an archive of their obituaries. Our spring 2021 conference included this slide presentation of the members who were memorialized. Our memories of those who have gone before us inform our lives in many ways.Įach time we gather for a conference, we include a memorial service honoring members who have died since the last time we met. The living tradition we celebrate recognizes the passages of life and death. We remember the retired ministers and their partners who have died.
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