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RIP Rowen

PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
in All Saints
I'm sad to report that our much-loved Shipmate Rowen has died after a long and brave battle against illness.

May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

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  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Rest in Peace, Rowen. You’ll be missed. 🕯️
  • ClarenceClarence Shipmate
    Praying for her family and friends who loved her well and who watched with her through many years of ill health. Vale Rowen, we will always remember your special goodness to us.
  • PriscillaPriscilla Shipmate
    RIP Rowen
  • ferijenferijen Shipmate
    I first chatted to Rowen at Erin’s funeral. Though I no longer really believe, part of me hopes that there’s an alligator shaped welcome waiting for her right now.

    May she rest in peace.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    🕯️

  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    What a loss!

    <votive> for all who knew her, family, friends, acquaintances, Shipmates

    Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory!
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    🕯
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    🕯
  • TwangistTwangist Shipmate
    🕯
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    😥 🕯️
  • A Feminine ForceA Feminine Force Shipmate
    I like to imagine a Shipmeet in heaven where all our Shippies await us and raise a glass to our enduring and wonderful fellowship.

    RIP Rowen. All the hugs to your dear family and friends and all who will miss your daily presence and care.

    AFF
  • Cheery GardenerCheery Gardener Shipmate
    That sounds very special AFF! Rest peacefully Rowan and comfort to all who grieve for her.
  • WandererWanderer Shipmate
    RIPARIG Rowen.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    RIP Rowan. I mostly knew her through Facebook, and will miss her there quite a bit.
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    I met up with Rowen in Oxford well over 20 years ago when she was over here on one of her sabbaticals and I think we must have been once paired up for either a Ship’s Secret Santa or Pascal Penguin, for I still have the address of the hospital where she was once chaplain. She had a great sense of fun and much wisdom. I remember various Heaven threads on the old ship, where Rowen showed her quirky sense of humour; mostly gone now, sadly, though the classic, ‘Heaven - a Soap Opera,’ where she was a class act with Revds Anselmina, Arrietty and Amos. @kingsfold , you may remember…is still there to read. I reminded Rowen of those ‘daft threads,’ back in what was probably our last brief exchange on messenger in April and she replied ‘Lovely daftness.’ 🕯️
  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    Rest in peace, Rowen.
  • Tree BeeTree Bee Shipmate
    Rowen 🕯
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    She was very kind to me when I was going through a rough patch. May her memory be a blessing. 🕯
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Learning of Rowen's death this morning was heartbreaking. I loved reading her thoughts on FB as she went through so much hardship, but also sharing about so many people and experiences that were blessings to her.

    She was one of the very good ones.
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    Echoing jedijudy, I was impressed and touched by how positive she stayed through many challenges this past year or two. She always struck me as a lovely person and, no doubt, a good pastor. May light perpetual shine upon her.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    I'm not on board very much these days, but this is sad news. I remember Rowen from before the days I joined 20 years or so ago .
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    I started reading the Ship long before joining. Got confused with browsing time and actually joining
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    One who tried to live the Gospel, shared in suffering of humanity and hopefully has been welcomed home.
  • ZappaZappa Shipmate
    Soon after I joined the Ship I toddled off to Byron Bay, NSW for a ship meet. There I met, amongst others, Rowen. At that time she was sporting a different name on the Ship, during a brief name amnesty, as I later learned.

    A little late she came to visit kuruman, the kuruzapplets and me out at Wankydilla. I have had a few F2F encounters since, and many interactions on the Ship and Book of Face. Always uplifting, a gentle, pastoral soul, who faced enormous adversity with courage and integrity.

    My heart goes out to those who grieve her departure most keenly. There are many.

    🕯🕯🕯
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    🕯🕯🕯
  • rexoryrexory Shipmate
    Rowen was an inspirational and incarnational pastor. May she rest in peace.
  • AnotherdayAnotherday Shipmate Posts: 35
    I’ve known Rowena far too many years seen her in two different continents hosted in two different continents. I wish I’d be able to get up to see her before she passed this year has been a really challenging one for me with my own personal circumstances
  • AmosAmos Shipmate
    edited May 29
    Oh, Rowen was lovely. I remember driving her around my patch of the West Midlands 20 or so years ago. She was adventurous, enormously kind, and an example of incarnational ministry in trouble and in joy. May her memory be a blessing, and may she be singing in the all-age inclusive choir of the Church Triumphant.
  • WormInTheGrassWormInTheGrass Shipmate
    May Rowen rest in peace and rise in glory. Am I right in thinking that sometime in the past she used to report on her adventures as the pastor of a scattered parish in the High Country of Victoria?
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    Yep
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    She provided a window into her rural life that meant a lot to me. I am sorry to hear the news.
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