Audrey Bryant: Funeral and Thanksgiving Services: 17 +18 April
One of our much loved and valued founding members just died peacefully, on 10 April 2015.
She had moved to a care home last year in the area where she used to live, so that she could be nearer places she knew.
Suzannah her daughter emailed:
“Audrey died happily and peacefully in her sleep on April 10th at her favourite time of day, 5.15am, just as the sun rises with two of her daughters, Shane and Suzanna, by her side. She is now free to embrace her new adventure beyond death, with all the energy she threw in to her life.
With best wishes – Suzanna Owen
I (Judith Allinson -Green Christian’s Web Editor) knew her for many years when she served on Steering Committee. She was so bright and cheerful. I valued phone conversations with her when I first joined, she was so encouraging.
She told me about her trip to Basel with Judith Pritchard to the first European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA1), convened at Basel, Switzerland in May 1989 to focus on the theme of “Peace with Justice”
She attended (I think) at least one meeting of the Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women http://www.efecw.net/ on behalf of Christian Ecology Link where she made several friendships and came back with some harrowing tales of conditions some other women had endured.
She stood for the European Parliament as a “Christian for the Greens” in the 1984, and for the Green Party in 1989 (when she took almost 21% of the Green vote in Northamptonshire) and 1994 elections.
http://www.westbriton.co.uk/Local-poet-focus-radio-broadcast/story-11448421-detail/story.html
She wrote many poems and designed wonderful cards. You can read some of her hymns and poems:-
Hymns (on this website):-
Lord of all Languages
Green Bottle Decade
Oh Mother Earth – written for the Copenhagen Earth Summit
Poems:-
Two poems by Audrey can be downloaded from https://www.greenchristian.org.uk/ecocell/ecocell2-materials :
Bees and Autumn and economics
Page 9 in Summer 2012 edition of GC: – Before all Worlds: https://www.greenchristian.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/GC73.pdf
Article by Audrey Bryant in Summer 2012 Green Christian
Cynicism is our worst enemy – Some comments on the 2007 Reith Lectures by Audrey Bryant of Polruan, Cornwall. – http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/mustread-3.htm
It was a privilege to have known her – She would want us all to keep on fighting to save the environment.
A more official obituary from Green Christian will be added to this post later
Audrey’s funeral will be:
2pm on Friday, 17th April at
St Peter’s Church, Walgrave, Northants NN6 9QH
Afterwards at The Royal Oak Pub, Walgrave
The thanksgiving and burial:
2pm on Saturday, 18th April at
St Wyllow Parish Church, Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall PL23 1NQ
Afterwards at The Lugger Inn, Polruan
Flowers by immediate family only please. If you would like to make a charitable donation please contact the funeral directors, J Stamp and Sons, Market Harborough LE16 8AN www.jstampandsons.co.uk (01858 462524)
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Comments on "Audrey Bryant: Funeral and Thanksgiving Services: 17 +18 April"
Tim Cooper:
Michaela If you email me privately I shall forward the contact details I had for her daughter when Audrey died. Tim Cooper
Michaela Späker:
Iam searching for a contact to Audrey's daughters, because my mother was their first aupair girl from Germany. Audrey writes her until her death. Now my mother dies an I have a lot of photos from this period of time. I hope I can get in contact. Please, if anybody knows something. I was glad to here from them
Michaela Späker:
Iam searching for a contact to Audrey's daughters, because my mother was their first aupair girl from Germany. Audrey writes her until her death. Now my mother dies an I have a lot of photos from this period of time. I hope I can get in contact. Please, if anybody knows something. I was glad to here from them
Michaela Späker:
Iam searching for a contact to Audrey's daughters, because my mother was their first aupair girl from Germany. Audrey writes her until her death. No my mother dies an I have a lot of photos from this period of time. I hope I can get in contact.
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