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September 7, 1924 – July 20, 2008 The Rev. Donald William Gaines, former rector and assistant rector of St. John’s Church, San Bernardino, died on July 20. He was 83. Survivors include Elinor, Gaines’ wife of 52 years; their three children, Mary Gaines, William Gaines and Margaret Gaines Muhlenkamp; and six grandchildren. Donald Gaines served […]
May 30, 1927 – July 17, 2008 The Rev. Richard Shackell, rector emeritus of Grace Church, Glendora, died on July 17 of natural causes. He was 81, and had been in poor health and suffering from dementia for several years. Services were held on August 16, 2008 at Trinity Church, Santa Barbara. Survivors include Shackell’s […]
January 21, 1928 – April 23, 2008 The Rev. Robert Lee Cornelison, retired rector of St. Mary’s Church, Laguna Beach, died on April 23. He was 80. He is survived by five children — Leigh, Nina, Catherine, Robert and Eve — and several grandchildren. Cornelison was called as rector of St. Mary’s in 1968, and […]
October 8, 1949 – April 13, 2008 The Rev. David Edward Bowser, once rector of St. Margaret’s Church, South Gate, died on April 13. He was 58. Medical evidence indicates that he took his own life. Survivors include Bowser’s wife, Mary Ann Newfield-Bowser, and his sons from a previous marriage, Michael and Stephen. Services were […]
August 3, 1925 – February 13, 2008 The Rev. Esther Brown, former vicar of St. John’s Church, Needles, died on February 13 in Vermont, where she had lived since her retirement in 1997. She was 82. Survivors include her husband, W. Averell Brown, whom she married in 1958; their children, Alice and Philip; five grandchildren; […]
d. January 30, 2008 The Rev. Alfonso Sanchez, assistant priest at St. Michael’s Church in Anaheim, died January 30, 2008 during a brief hospitalization. He was 67. His gifts of evangelism, pastoral care, and friendship will be greatly missed across the diocese, and especially in the Anaheim community where he served since 2002. Survivors include […]
Volunteer coordinators and supervisors got their first look July 12 at the convention facility in Anaheim, California, that will be the center of attention for the Episcopal Church a year from now when General Convention 2009 convenes in the Diocese of Los Angeles. The meeting with General Convention staff from the Episcopal Church Center took […]
Editor’s Note: The Rt. Rev. Frederick H. Borsch, fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, was among community and organizational leaders who served as witnesses testifying to the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, known as the Christopher Commission and so named for its chair, Warren Christopher, who went on to […]
[The Episcopal News] Doing for others while they sorted out their own feelings summarizes the way Southland parishes coped with danger, anger, sorrow and fear after being engulfed by one of the worst urban riots in U.S. history. Only two churches in the diocese sustained actual damage – St. Mary’s, Los Angeles (Mariposa), was broken […]
[The Episcopal News] Outrage: Feelings of sharp anger and profound sadness. These were the feelings of so many of us when we first watched the video of the beating of Rodney King. Rodney King did not live an exemplary life, but, whatever wrongs he had done, he was and is a fellow citizen and a […]
[The Episcopal News] Spared destruction in the city’s worst rioting, churches in the Los Angeles Diocese mobilized quickly to offer physical and emotional support to a dozen congregations most deeply affected by the violence. Bishop Frederick Borsch announced on the morning after the initial eruption that eight (later nine) churches would be eligible for $4,000 […]
[The Episcopal News] Declaring the need to view the devastation first-hand, Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning toured riot-torn Los Angeles on May 6 and called for an end to racial isolation. “Isolation just can’t be a part of who we are,” Browning said during a visit to St. Mary’s Parish in the heart of hard-hit […]
