BALL _ Robert (Bob) Harvey January 1, 1929 - February 28, 2008 Bob died at home on Thursday morning, in the tender care of his family.
He was loved beyond telling by his wife and sweetheart Janet (nee Morrow), five grateful children, Timothy (d. 1984), David, Anna Gardner (John Brocke), Doug, and Nathan (Paula Kilcoyne), as well as fifteen beautiful grandchildren, two newly born great-grandchildren, and by the hundreds whose lives he touched.
Born and raised in Regina, Bob will be profoundly missed by his older siblings from Saskatchewan and their extended families: Margaret Blommaert, Jim Ball and Fran Apperly. Graduating from Scott Collegiate with Honours, Bob began an agricultural degree at University of Saskatoon before he followed a deeper call to sow seeds of the spirit and till soil in the lives of people.
After marrying Janet in 1952 he worked the gold mines in Yellowknife, NWT and as a Fuller Brush salesman to put himself through seminary at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. As a Home Missions pastor with the Canadian Baptist Union, Bob grew and nurtured young churches in the towns of Kitimat and Richmond, BC, and Jasper, AB. He established an innovative summer outreach program for college students working in Jasper and during his term on the pastoral team at First Baptist Church, Calgary (1971 to 1976) he founded the Burning Bush Coffeehouse which grew into the well-known Mustard Seed Ministry for street people.
Inspired in part by staying as a family in a chalet at L'Abri in Switzerland in 1969, Bob began dreaming and envisioning along with Janet, about creating a hospitality-based ecumenical renewal centre. King's Fold Retreat, located in the foothills of the Rockies, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year and continues to be a place of beauty, peace and deep inspiration for people from all walks of life.
Bob was a master stained glass artist, a visionary, an entrepreneur, a dreamer, a passionate gardener, a traveler, a romantic, a barista, and a lover of life par excellence.
Visitation with the family is from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, March 2 in the chapel at Central United Church, Calgary. His life will be celebrated in the main sanctuary (131 - 7 Avenue S.W.) on Monday, March 3 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to King's Fold Retreat Centre, L'Arche Canada Foundation or the Henri Nouwen Society. PERSONAL ALTERNATIVE FUNERAL SERVICES 7016 Farrell Road
Published in The Calgary Herald from Feb. 29 to Mar. 2, 2008
He was loved beyond telling by his wife and sweetheart Janet (nee Morrow), five grateful children, Timothy (d. 1984), David, Anna Gardner (John Brocke), Doug, and Nathan (Paula Kilcoyne), as well as fifteen beautiful grandchildren, two newly born great-grandchildren, and by the hundreds whose lives he touched.
Born and raised in Regina, Bob will be profoundly missed by his older siblings from Saskatchewan and their extended families: Margaret Blommaert, Jim Ball and Fran Apperly. Graduating from Scott Collegiate with Honours, Bob began an agricultural degree at University of Saskatoon before he followed a deeper call to sow seeds of the spirit and till soil in the lives of people.
After marrying Janet in 1952 he worked the gold mines in Yellowknife, NWT and as a Fuller Brush salesman to put himself through seminary at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. As a Home Missions pastor with the Canadian Baptist Union, Bob grew and nurtured young churches in the towns of Kitimat and Richmond, BC, and Jasper, AB. He established an innovative summer outreach program for college students working in Jasper and during his term on the pastoral team at First Baptist Church, Calgary (1971 to 1976) he founded the Burning Bush Coffeehouse which grew into the well-known Mustard Seed Ministry for street people.
Inspired in part by staying as a family in a chalet at L'Abri in Switzerland in 1969, Bob began dreaming and envisioning along with Janet, about creating a hospitality-based ecumenical renewal centre. King's Fold Retreat, located in the foothills of the Rockies, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year and continues to be a place of beauty, peace and deep inspiration for people from all walks of life.
Bob was a master stained glass artist, a visionary, an entrepreneur, a dreamer, a passionate gardener, a traveler, a romantic, a barista, and a lover of life par excellence.
Visitation with the family is from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, March 2 in the chapel at Central United Church, Calgary. His life will be celebrated in the main sanctuary (131 - 7 Avenue S.W.) on Monday, March 3 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to King's Fold Retreat Centre, L'Arche Canada Foundation or the Henri Nouwen Society. PERSONAL ALTERNATIVE FUNERAL SERVICES 7016 Farrell Road
Published in The Calgary Herald from Feb. 29 to Mar. 2, 2008
BALL _ Robert (Bob) Harvey January 1, 1929 - February 28, 2008 Bob died at home on Thursday morning, in the tender care of his family.
He was loved beyond telling by his wife and sweetheart Janet (nee Morrow), five grateful children, Timothy (d. 1984), David, Anna Gardner (John Brocke), Doug, and Nathan (Paula Kilcoyne), as well as fifteen beautiful grandchildren, two newly born great-grandchildren, and by the hundreds whose lives he touched.
Born and raised in Regina, Bob will be profoundly missed by his older siblings from Saskatchewan and their extended families: Margaret Blommaert, Jim Ball and Fran Apperly. Graduating from Scott Collegiate with Honours, Bob began an agricultural degree at University of Saskatoon before he followed a deeper call to sow seeds of the spirit and till soil in the lives of people.
After marrying Janet in 1952 he worked the gold mines in Yellowknife, NWT and as a Fuller Brush salesman to put himself through seminary at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. As a Home Missions pastor with the Canadian Baptist Union, Bob grew and nurtured young churches in the towns of Kitimat and Richmond, BC, and Jasper, AB. He established an innovative summer outreach program for college students working in Jasper and during his term on the pastoral team at First Baptist Church, Calgary (1971 to 1976) he founded the Burning Bush Coffeehouse which grew into the well-known Mustard Seed Ministry for street people.
Inspired in part by staying as a family in a chalet at L'Abri in Switzerland in 1969, Bob began dreaming and envisioning along with Janet, about creating a hospitality-based ecumenical renewal centre. King's Fold Retreat, located in the foothills of the Rockies, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year and continues to be a place of beauty, peace and deep inspiration for people from all walks of life.
Bob was a master stained glass artist, a visionary, an entrepreneur, a dreamer, a passionate gardener, a traveler, a romantic, a barista, and a lover of life par excellence.
Visitation with the family is from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, March 2 in the chapel at Central United Church, Calgary. His life will be celebrated in the main sanctuary (131 - 7 Avenue S.W.) on Monday, March 3 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to King's Fold Retreat Centre, L'Arche Canada Foundation or the Henri Nouwen Society. PERSONAL ALTERNATIVE FUNERAL SERVICES 7016 Farrell Road
Published in The Calgary Herald from Feb. 29 to Mar. 2, 2008
He was loved beyond telling by his wife and sweetheart Janet (nee Morrow), five grateful children, Timothy (d. 1984), David, Anna Gardner (John Brocke), Doug, and Nathan (Paula Kilcoyne), as well as fifteen beautiful grandchildren, two newly born great-grandchildren, and by the hundreds whose lives he touched.
Born and raised in Regina, Bob will be profoundly missed by his older siblings from Saskatchewan and their extended families: Margaret Blommaert, Jim Ball and Fran Apperly. Graduating from Scott Collegiate with Honours, Bob began an agricultural degree at University of Saskatoon before he followed a deeper call to sow seeds of the spirit and till soil in the lives of people.
After marrying Janet in 1952 he worked the gold mines in Yellowknife, NWT and as a Fuller Brush salesman to put himself through seminary at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. As a Home Missions pastor with the Canadian Baptist Union, Bob grew and nurtured young churches in the towns of Kitimat and Richmond, BC, and Jasper, AB. He established an innovative summer outreach program for college students working in Jasper and during his term on the pastoral team at First Baptist Church, Calgary (1971 to 1976) he founded the Burning Bush Coffeehouse which grew into the well-known Mustard Seed Ministry for street people.
Inspired in part by staying as a family in a chalet at L'Abri in Switzerland in 1969, Bob began dreaming and envisioning along with Janet, about creating a hospitality-based ecumenical renewal centre. King's Fold Retreat, located in the foothills of the Rockies, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year and continues to be a place of beauty, peace and deep inspiration for people from all walks of life.
Bob was a master stained glass artist, a visionary, an entrepreneur, a dreamer, a passionate gardener, a traveler, a romantic, a barista, and a lover of life par excellence.
Visitation with the family is from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, March 2 in the chapel at Central United Church, Calgary. His life will be celebrated in the main sanctuary (131 - 7 Avenue S.W.) on Monday, March 3 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to King's Fold Retreat Centre, L'Arche Canada Foundation or the Henri Nouwen Society. PERSONAL ALTERNATIVE FUNERAL SERVICES 7016 Farrell Road
Published in The Calgary Herald from Feb. 29 to Mar. 2, 2008
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