Steve passed away at the age of 89 on September 16, 2003 in Santa Rosa after a protracted struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Preceded in death by his son Stephen Hawkins Jones and his first wife Marjorie, he is survived by his wife Elizabeth, his twin sister Elizabeth, his older daughter Elizabeth and her children Hari, Kenneth and Lotus, and by his daughter and son-in-law Peggy and Ron Snow and their children Stacy, Sarah and Spencer. p

Martha Mott

Martha was raised in Kansas, and met her husband, Waldo, at college. They were married in 1939. Martha adopted her husband’s Quaker faith as her own, and she worked for peace and justice as she and Waldo raised two children, Bill and Nancy.

Martha was an activist throughout her lifetime. During World War II she campaigned against mandatory conscription. While living in Washington DC, she took politicians on tours of poor neighborhoods to increase their awareness of poverty. She helped set up day care for Mexican immigrant children in the 1950s on the Western Slope of Colorado’s Rockies. She was a mentor and grandmother figure to teens at Gemini House in Lakewood, a halfway house for teens. Martha was also active in Sierra Club, Audubon Society, the Democratic Party, and other organizations. Though Martha was a tiny person in stature and her voice was soft, her influence was powerful. She was a great organizer, and knew how to gather the right people to make change happen.

In 1991, Martha joined Mountain View Meeting when she moved to Evergreen, Colorado. In addition to the causes already mentioned, she championed affordable housing for seniors, started the recycling program in Evergreen, provided senior citizens with transportation, visited nursing homes, and started the Evergreen Friends Meeting. Martha continued her activism until she suffered a stroke in May of 2002. Martha leaves her two adult children, four grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and many friends.

Brinton Turkle

He and his wife Yvonne Foulton moved to Santa Fe, NM,from Ohio in 1948. They started their family here and Brinton pursued his career as a book illustrator. In 1959 he moved to New York City and began writing and illustrating children’s books. He returned to Santa Fe in the 1970s, again one of the mainstays of our Meeting, beloved by all of us.

Brinton’s contributions to our Meeting were manifold. He was firmly anchored in Quaker history and tradition. His vocal ministry was something we looked forward to, when he rose and stood straight and tall, in his William Penn hat and Navajo jewelry. His offerings were often anecdotal, usually amusing, and frequently outright humorous, even bringing laughter into our solemn midst. He exemplified reverence with a light touch, keeping us in balance when we were at risk of getting too serious, and giving us the gift of Quaker spirituality through stories. He was an advocate of a lower threshold for vocal ministry.

Brinton spent the last several years of his life in a retirement center, a round trip distance from Meeting of over a mile. He proudly walked this distance, declining any offers of a ride, and leaving immediately at the close of meeting, before announcements, in order to be back at the center for the midday meal. He consistently displayed a cheerful optimism even when enduring health setbacks in his last few years.

Brinton wrote and illustrated many popular children’s books, and also illustrated more than 100 books for other authors. One of his most beloved and enduring books featured a Quaker boy, Obadiah, and his family living in Colonial Nantucket. Thy Friend, Obadiah won a Caldecott Medal of Honor in 1970 and was reviewed as "a perfect picture book about friendship." Other books in the Obadiah series included Rachel and 0badiah, Obadiah the Bold, and The Adventures of Obadiah.

He received many awards, including the Lewis Carrol Shelf Award and the Book World Award, and the Caldecott Medal of Honor. In 2001 he was honored by the state of New Mexico with the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

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Annette Ruth Greenberg

Annette earned a bachelors degree in political science at Colby College in Waterville, Maine and remained active in politics and connected to Maine throughout her life. She was a founding member of the Moab LWV chapter and has been active in antiwar, social justice and human rights issues. Speaking truth to power was a watchword of hers. Annette earned a masters degree in political science from the University of Montana in Missoula and after her divorce from her first husband, moved to Washington, DC where she interned at the Friends Committee on National Legislation and worked at the Institute for Policy Studies. In Missoula and Washington, DC, she was active in the anti-Viet Nam war movement, and was detained briefly in JFK Stadium along with thousands of other antiwar demonstrators. Annette escaped from the detention camp with the help of a friend and in the company of fellow-demonstrator/detainee Abbie Hoffman. Annette was a member of the Teachers, Inc., a community-based group of activist educators dedicated to promoting social change from within school districts. She was a member off the Teacher’s Inc. Washington, D.C. project where she and Bob Greenberg met.

After their marriage in February 1974, Annette and Bob left their jobs to manage the congressional campaign of a Quaker friend of Annette’s in New Hampshire. The following spring, they left on a yearlong trip to Nepal, crossing Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India by bus and truck with only their backpacks.

Annette was a dedicated educator who taught elementary school in Washington, DC before she found her vocation as a special education teacher and administrator. Annette earned a masters degree in special education from the American University Hillcrest Children’s Center program. She first taught special education in suburban Maryland and after moving to Moab in 1976, and the birth of her daughter Jessica in 1978, returned to teaching with a halftime special education position at South East Elementary in 1981.

In 1987, Annette became the Grand County School District’s Special Education Director and in 1996 she was appointed the principal of HMK Intermediate School. She managed both jobs for the 96-97 school year and became HMK’s full-time principal in 1997. Annette’s was diagnosed with breast cancer during her tenure as HMK’s principal. In 2000 she started her second stint as Special Education Director. Her illness forced her to stop working in the spring of 2002.

Annette was raised a Methodist and was drawn to the Religious Society of Friends by their peace testimony, commitment to social justice and manner of worship. She became a Quaker and a founding member of the Moab Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. She was also very involved in the Utah Friends Fellowship serving as treasurer for several years. Annette attended most Intermountain Yearly Meetings serving as co-treasurer one year and co-coordinator of the Children’s Yearly Meeting for two years.

Annette always had a special love for children who faced significant challenges. In her memory, Annette’s family is adopting a school in East Africa for children who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS or have special learning needs. Memorial donations may be made to the Annette Greenberg Memorial Fund at Zions Bank in Moab, Utah.

Martha Fort

La Jolla Monthly Meeting reports the death of our beloved Friend, Martha Fort on February 17, 2004. Martha was born on June 12, 1908 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, and spent her childhood in Charleston West Virginia. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Oberlin College and a graduate degree in Psychiatric Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh. While she was at Oberlin she helped found a student peace organization which launched her life of service in the areas of social action and peace.

In 1963 she moved to California. She first supervised graduate students and taught at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to Sacramento where she supervised graduate students in their field placement for Sacramento State University. In 1967 she traveled to Viet Nam with a rehabilitation team of the American Friends Service Committee. Their hospital in Quang Ni was bombed during the Tet offensive and the team was evacuated. In the following years she returned twice more to Viet Nam where she worked to establish growth and development norms for Vietnamese children. This project was her response to the thousands of children orphaned without record of birth, age, or health status. Her work was published in a British medical journal. Profoundly moved by her first hand experience of the horror of war, she dedicated the rest of her life to peace activism and conflict resolution.

Martha joined the faculty of San Diego State University in 1968 and remained there until her retirement in 1975. While at SDSU she was one of the founders of the Peace Resource Center. She was active with many NASW projects, League of Women Voter issues, as well as many Quaker activities. After retirement she spent two years in Geneva, Switzerland producing and editing the newsletter for Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom. She also volunteered as a teacher at a School of Social Work in Rhodesia during the civil war in that country in the late 1970s. Her interest in the peace movement and in alternative community constructs led her to spend time with various communes and communities in France, Switzerland and The British Isles.

In the early 1980s she worked with Central American refugees who were detained in camps along the Southwest border. She traveled extensively in Mexico, living in Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende and Hermosillio. While there she studied Spanish and became fluent enough to address, in Spanish, a UN meeting in Mexico City. She traveled to Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Columbia observing first hand the civil war there and working with refuges that were imprisoned in Southern Mexico and also spent time in Guatemala as a bodyguard with The Peace Brigade. She worked to preserve the indigenous languages of the Guatemalan Indians by developing their oral language into a written one. She had the peace book, One Hundred Monkeys published with her Spanish translation.

In 1986 Martha returned to San Diego and turned her attentions to numerous local projects. She was instrumental in the restoration of the trees at Chollas Lake Reservoir. She participated with Pro Esteros on border issues and worked to save the wetlands. She worked assiduously to secure affordable housing in San Diego by participating on the Mayor’s taskforce on affordable housing and representing Friends Meeting on the Board of Interfaith Housing Foundation. She also organized resident committees at the various Interfaith Housing projects.

Martha was also active with the United Nations Association. She attended International Women’s Conferences in Mexico, Africa, and Beijing. She was active with the National Association of Social Workers, Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom, League of Woman Voters, Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and Grandmothers for Peace. She received many honors from the community, such as Peacemaker of the Year and Social Worker of the Year.

In the winter of 1999 she moved to Sacramento to live, first with her daughter Elizabeth and then at Aegis of Carmichael, an assisted living home. Both Sacramento and Davis Monthly Meetings were enriched by her participation in Meeting for Worship. The projects she was working on at the time of her death were establishing a chair at Oberlin College for the beloved Doctor Jaszi and recording a history of her life. She is survived by her two daughters: Eloise Piper of San Diego and Elizabeth Hattin of Sacramento, and five grand children and seven great grandchildren.

Toussaint L’Overture Jennings

Toussaint was born May 8, 1914, in Thompson, Georgia, and was named for the great hero of the Haitian Revolution. He had an older brother and two sisters. When he was a few months old, his mother died and his father moved the family to Augusta, Georgia. When Toussaint was three, his father remarried and his half-sister was born. That marriage ended in divorce and the family moved to Elsinore, California. When Toussaint was 12, his father married Elizabeth Elmore, who was a devoted mother to the children until her death in 1947.\

The family moved to Los Angeles where Toussaint finished high school. At that time, his father moved him into the local YMCA. Toussaint remained active in the Y for the rest of his life, sometimes serving as a member of the board of directors.

He served in the United States Army from October 1940 to October, 1941. After that, he worked as a railroad porter and traveled the United States, which gave him a life long love for travel. He then went to work for the US Postal Service and retired as a Foreman Mails Supervisor after 35 years. He became an active member of the Bowen Methodist Church and especially enjoyed singing in the choir.

In 1949, he married Mary Beth Washington. Toussaint and she met through Hedy Hubbe, a longtime member of Orange Grove Meeting. Mary had two sons— Santee (also known as Mike) and Eddie— and they thought of Toussaint as a father, even after he and Mary Beth divorced. Mary Beth had been an admirer of Stuart Innerst and become a Quaker. When Mary Beth was appointed Resident Friend at Orange Grove, the family lived in the caretaker’s apartment. As he helped maintain the property and taught Mary Beth’s boys to help him, Toussaint gradually became involved in Orange Grove Friends Meeting. He became a member in 1963. He was famous for saying, "Other people talk, but Quakers do." Somehow he remained active at Orange Grove and at Bowen Methodist without either of the two being aware of the other.

Family was one of the most important parts of Toussaint’s life. A nephew says, he was "All about family." He had many nephews and nieces; and he would visit one family after another. He was a considerate guest, never dropping in unannounced, but sending a telegram beforehand and arriving with his own sleeping bag. Once there, he would take the whole family out to the International House of Pancakes for dinner. He would share news from the last family he had visited and thus held the whole family together.

He especially enjoyed the children. He remembered all their birthdays and exposed them to culture: theater, opera and museums. He would gather the children all together for afternoon outings or extended vacations, singing camp songs all the way. His nephew Ron remembers Toussaint teaching him to drive on the Pasadena Freeway. He took the older children from Pacific Ackworth School on field trips and always took a special interest in children whose families were troubled. His family says that although he was dependable, he was a bit of a loner, never talking about himself. Nor did he ask personal questions, he simply observed.

In his later years, he became more active at Orange Grove. He served on various committees, especially Oversight, and was a regular at workdays. He was our only African American member for decades. We had a Christmas tradition of Toussaint leading us in the spiritual, "Amen."

After retirement, he sometimes lived with his sister in Pasadena, and could be counted on to attend meetings for worship and business. He seldom spoke in meeting but when he did it was simple and to the point. He was fond of quoting his grandmother who said, "What you’re doing speaks so loud, I can’t hear what you’re saying. He seemed to know everyone and always had a bright smile, a cheerful greeting, sometimes a little joke and a spiffy vest.

Toussaint lived to be 89. He died peacefully on September 6, 2003. In his last years, he had to live at the Eisenhower Nursing Facility because of failing health. A few members of Orange Grove and many members of his family visited regularly. On his last birthday, we sang spirituals together and his face was alive with the Spirit.

Martha brought her vast knowledge about peace and social concerns to Friends and educated us about the issues and possible solutions. Her presentations were comprehensive and well thought out and gave broad viewpoints. In pursuit of her interests, Martha exhibited a tireless energy and spirit that lasted well into her 90’s.