Obituary - Period ended 9/30/2005

Obituary/Business///Lord Wardington/Telegraph.co.uk/London/England/UK/19-Sep-05//…Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease was born on January 22 1924 into a Quaker banking family which rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution. His grandfather founded the Newcastle Bank, which was taken over by Lloyds in the early 20th century, and his father, who became chairman of Lloyds, was created the 1st Lord Wardington in 1936. ...

Obituary/Business///Mary Katheryn Carpenter/News-Herald.com/Akron/OH/USA/29-Sep-05//Mrs. Carpenter was a cosmetologist. She worked for several beauty shops through the years, and owned and operated her own shop, Kay's Beauty Shop in Eastlake and Mentor for more than 20 years. She and her husband also owned a motel in Flagstaff, Ariz. and a campground called Spring Lake Park in Bristolville, Ohio.

Obituary/Education///Velda M. Seaton/Fairfield Daily Ledger/Fairfield/IA/USA/29-Sep-05// Mrs. Seaton was raised in Rubio until she was 8-years-old then moved to a farm east of Richland. She graduated from Richland High School in 1924, and attended summer school Normal Training at Parsons College in Fairfield. She then taught country school in the Clear Creek area for about four years. Mrs. Seaton was a farmwife living east of Richland until her husband retired and they moved into Richland in May of 1966. She moved to Washington in December of 1981 to live with her daughters. Mrs. Seaton was a long-time member of the Richland Friends Church and the last member of the Golden Rule Sunday School Class. She later joined the Washington Mennonite Church.

Obituary/Journalism//David C. Anderson, 62, author on criminal justice/The Villager/New York/NY/USA/29-Sep-05//…David C. Anderson, a journalist, writer, social activist and Quaker, died on Sept. 15 surrounded by his family at Cabrini Hospital Hospice. The cause of death was cancer. He was 62 years old. A resident of Greenwich Village, Anderson served for 12 years, until 1993, on the editorial board of The New York Times, and most recently as director of communications of the Ford Foundation.

A strong and vocal advocate of gun control, prison reform, court reform and civil rights, Anderson wrote four well-received books: “Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison” (1998), “Crime and the Politics of Hysteria: How the Willie Horton Story Changed American Justice” (1995), “Crimes of Justice: Improving the Police, the Courts, the Prisons” (1988) and “Children of Special Value: Interracial Adoption in America” (1971) and co-authored with his son Thomas “The No-Salt Cookbook: Reduce or Eliminate Salt Without Sacrificing Flavor” (2001). A committed Quaker, he was a trustee of the New York Quarterly Meeting, and served as minister and counsel to the Brooklyn Monthly Meeting. In addition, he was a devoted member of the board of trustees of the Mary McDowell Center for Learning, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Anderson was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., and graduated from Oberlin College in 1964 with a degree in English. After serving for three years in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica, he joined the Wall Street Journal, beginning his long and successful career as a newspaper reporter, article writer and later editorial writer.

He leaves his wife of 15 years, Elizabeth Burke Gilmore, a member of Community Board 2 and the board of directors of Friends of Hudson River Park; his children, Mary Walker Anderson, Michael Ebert Anderson, Sarah Bennett Anderson, Thomas David Anderson, Elspeth Michaela Burke Gilmore and William Wallace Burke Gilmore; three grandchildren; his mother, Virginia Ebert Anderson, of Rye, N.Y.; and a brother and sister-in-law, Joel and Carol Anderson. His first marriage, to Mary Walker Anderson, ended in divorce; together, they adopted four children.

There will be a Memorial Meeting on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Meeting House (Religious Society of Friends/Quakers) 110 Schermerhorn St. (corner Boerum Pl.), Brooklyn.

The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, contributions in David Anderson’s name be made to any of the following three organizations, all of which he strongly supported: Mary McDowell Center for Learning, 20 Bergen St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 11201; Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, 1023 15th St. N.W., Suite 600, Washington, D.C., 20005; Columbia Land Conservancy, P.O. Box 299, Chatham, N.Y., 12037. ...

Obituary/Non-Conformism/Conscientious Objection/Robert Purves/The Herald/London/England/UK/22-Sep-05//…Robert Purves, MBE, who has died at 89, was a non-conformist from childhood His independent standpoint gave him a profound understanding of outsiders and of the poor, and for 15 years he headed a ground-breaking voluntary sector social-work team in one of Glasgow's huge housing schemes.
One of four children of Robert and Annie Purves, born just off Edinburgh's Royal Mile in 1916, he was strictly brought up. Their father worked with the railway, the LNER, and was an elder, a Boys' Brigade officer and the church officer in the Old Kirk of St Giles'. Bobby was just a toddler when a lady came round the doors enrolling children for the new Montessori school being attached to the Moray House School. Bobby was educated there from the age of three until he was eight, when he transferred to Moray House School itself. The Montessori method had a focus on nature studies, enhanced for Bobby by frequent holiday visits to relatives on a farm outside Hawick. Seriously ill when he was 12, he missed a year of schooling before leaving school at the age of 14.
He served a seven-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder with an Edinburgh printing firm, Alec Cowan's. An independent thinker from his earliest days, Bobby liked the Quakers, and among his friends was a pacifist schoolteacher from Fettes College. He started selling the Peace News, and though he was from a family with generations of military tradition, and had one brother in the army and the other in the navy, Bobby became a conscientious objector. When war broke out, Bobby and his friends were in the Peace Pledge Union, committed against warfare and refusing military service. Some of his friends went to prison. When Bobby came before the tribunal his representative made much of his Montessori education in original thinking, so Bobby was allowed to serve as a volunteer ARP warden. Conscientious objectors, "COs", "conchies", had trouble finding work and Bobby had to go first to Dundee and then to Glasgow, where he worked in John Miller's the bookbinders in St George's Road. There he met Cathie Miller from Anderston, who did not share the general animosity towards COs. They went to the dancing together and, in time, were married.
In the war years and after, because of Bobby's well-known pacifist views, people would seek them out. Bobby and Cathie always had a sympathetic understanding of outsiders, and gave shelter to army deserters, who became good friends. Their children Robin, George and Laura were the foundation of Bobby's life. To earn more to provide fo ...

Obituary////David Starkey/ic Wales//Wales/UK/19-Sep-05//…BRITAIN'S best recognised face of history and notorious political critic has helped turn formally dull subjects into popular prime time viewing.

David Starkey is best known for having eclipsed fellow TV faces Simon Schama and Adam Hart-Davis in the history game with his fiercely popular profiles of the Tudor monarchy.

Born January 3, 1945, to poor Quaker parents, Starkey was raised in the northern town of Kendal, home of the Mint Cake.

Despite suffering early health problems in the form of polio and club foot he excelled at Kendal Grammar School and went on to attend Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. There he earned his BA and PhD and has been recently made a fellow.

In 1972 he began teaching history at the London School of Economics where he remained for 26 years. During this time he began working on radio programmes, including Radio 4's Moral Maze, and a current affairs programme on, what was then, Talk Radio. It was on the latter that he was bestowed the title "the rudest man in Britain" by the Daily Mail because of his aggressive phone manner.

Always keen to say what he thi ...