[edow] Church House News -- Verna Dozier death notice

[Church House News]

Verna Dozier, author, teacher and theologian, died Friday afternoon at
the age of 88.
 
Dozier, a parishioner at St. Mark's Church on Capitol Hill, taught in
the District of Columbia's public schools for 34 years before retiring
in 1975 to devote herself exclusively to a ministry of writing and
religious education. A popular lecturer and workshop presenter, her most
influential book was "The Dream of God: A Call to Return." Earlier this
year, Seabury Press published "Confronted by God: The Essential Verna
Dozier," a collection of her writings. 
 
Dozier lived at Collington Episcopal Life Care Community in
Mitchellville since 1992. In 1999, St. Mark's installed a stained glass
window in honor of Dozier and her sister Lois, who had died a year
earlier. The window features the prophet Amos, Dozier's favorite, and
figures of the two Dozier sisters. In 2003, Dozier won the first
Bishop's Award from the Diocese of Washington. 
 
Funeral arrangements are not yet complete. The Washington Post is
preparing an obituary which may be published on Sunday, September 3. 
 
 
A full biography by Fredrica Haris Thompsett is available here:
http://www.talbot.edu/ce20/educators/view.cfm?n=verna_dozier



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