DENISE Fox
1931-1996
DEEPLY GRIEVED PASSING DEVOTED HANDMAIDEN
BAHA'U'LLAH DENISE FOX. HER STALWART HEROIC PIONEER SERVICES
WITH HER BELOVED HUSBAND AND CHILDREN IN BRITISH
ISLES, ESPECIALLY IN ISLAND OF MULL, AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN
BASQUE REGION OF FRANCE, IMPERISHABLY RECORDED ANNALS
FAITH IN THOSE AREAS, CONSTITUTE SHINING EXAMPLE FUTURE
GENERATIONS FRENCH AND BRITISH FOLLOWERS CAUSE GOD. CONVEY
HEARTFELT SYMPATHY JEREMY FOX AND MEMBERS FAMILY. PRAYING
HOLY SHRINES PROGRESS HER NOBLE SOUL ALL WORLDS GOD.
Universal House of Justice
July 4, 1996
Denise Girardo was born in Le Canner, near Cannes, France, on June 21,
1931. Her mother, who declared her faith in Baha'u'llah in 1983, was originally British,
and her father, like so many from Cote d'Azur, was French, but his family was
originally Italian.
Denise was brought up in Provence, with the exception of a difficult period
during the war when the family moved to Toulouse and her mother went into hiding.
Denise was subsequently transferred to a farm in the Pyrenees with the help of the
Red Cross.
After school she worked for a while as a shop assistant on Promenade de la
Croisette in Cannes. Later she went to London to discover the English side of
her family. She stayed on to qualify as a nurse at Bolingbroke Hospital and then
returned to France to work at the American Hospital, first in Nice and later in Paris.
After a year and a half of nursing, she returned to England to qualify as a midwife
at the Mill Road Maternity Hospital in Cambridge. Mahin (Tofigh) Humphrey
taught her midwifery and the Faith.
We met at the firesides held at the Baha'i Centre (4 Gonville Place), and she
became a Baha'i shortly after me, just in time for the Fast in 1961. We were married
in 1962.
Just after our wedding Denise went short-time pioneering, sometimes referred
to as "last-minute ditching" or "the Ridvan shuffle." She went to Peterborough
in 1962 and to Southport in 1963. We met briefly at the World Congress in London
where she was serving as a simultaneous translator. Denise also served on the
Spiritual Assembly of Cambridge before our departure for Swansea in 1964. A year
later I had obtained my teacher's diploma, and Swansea had become a goal town of
the Nine Year Plan. The National Assembly asked us to stay on as pioneers. Swansea
became one of the first Local Assemblies to be formed during that plan. Our first
daughter, Nickie, was born in Swansea in 1964, followed by our son, Jago, in 1966.
He died twenty months later after an accident and is buried near the Guardian's
grave in London.
In 1968, in consultation with the Pioneer Committee, I obtained a choice
of teaching posts, one in Ghana and the other on the Isle of Mull in the Inner
Hebrides. Denise had a preference for the Hebrides, and so we went there thinking
it would be for three years. We stayed for twelve. Rhiannon, our second daughter,
was born there in 1972, and the first Spiritual Assembly of Mull was formed in
1975· As a member of the Scottish Teaching Committee, Denise became known as my
peripatetic wife. From 1978 she worked as a district nurse and midwife, probably the
happiest time of her life, despite the poor health she suffered.
Conscious of her French origins and that we were both French speaking, we
consulted with the British and French National Assemblies and set off in October
1980 for the Basque region with our two daughters and a tent. Flooded out of the
camp site we hastily found our first flat in Saint Jean de Luz. One year later, and a
lot poorer, Denise found a grueling, sixty hours a week night-duty job in a sanatorium
in Cambo-les-Bains. Fortunately some while later a new law reduced the
shift to thirty-nine hours while maintaining the same salary. From this time on her
health deteriorated steadily until she died of cancer on July 1, 1996.
The funeral was a little short of a miracle, taking place as it did in the village
of Sare, one of the bastions of traditional Basque culture and where, so recently, we
encountered opposition to the presence of a "foreign" faith or sect, and the mayor
forbade the participation of the Baha'is at a book exhibition where we had regularly
had a stand over the past five years. Our main difficulty was to find suitable
premises for the funeral ceremony. The local curate would not let us use the lovely
chapel in our part of the village, and in the end the mayor lent us the youth hall, which
was not obviously suitable, bur the only real possibility, and Nickie and Rhiannon
transformed it beyond recognition. Over one hundred people were crowded into that
inadequate hall, and without any direct explanation of the Faith, its depth
and beauty were evident and felt by all in a way no formal or intellectual presentation
could ever have done. Each person received a copy of the program. Never has Denise
taught so many, so well, as the day she left us! It was the climax to a life of teaching
by example.
Jeremy Fox
1931-1996
DEEPLY GRIEVED PASSING DEVOTED HANDMAIDEN
BAHA'U'LLAH DENISE FOX. HER STALWART HEROIC PIONEER SERVICES
WITH HER BELOVED HUSBAND AND CHILDREN IN BRITISH
ISLES, ESPECIALLY IN ISLAND OF MULL, AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN
BASQUE REGION OF FRANCE, IMPERISHABLY RECORDED ANNALS
FAITH IN THOSE AREAS, CONSTITUTE SHINING EXAMPLE FUTURE
GENERATIONS FRENCH AND BRITISH FOLLOWERS CAUSE GOD. CONVEY
HEARTFELT SYMPATHY JEREMY FOX AND MEMBERS FAMILY. PRAYING
HOLY SHRINES PROGRESS HER NOBLE SOUL ALL WORLDS GOD.
Universal House of Justice
July 4, 1996
Denise Girardo was born in Le Canner, near Cannes, France, on June 21,
1931. Her mother, who declared her faith in Baha'u'llah in 1983, was originally British,
and her father, like so many from Cote d'Azur, was French, but his family was
originally Italian.
Denise was brought up in Provence, with the exception of a difficult period
during the war when the family moved to Toulouse and her mother went into hiding.
Denise was subsequently transferred to a farm in the Pyrenees with the help of the
Red Cross.
After school she worked for a while as a shop assistant on Promenade de la
Croisette in Cannes. Later she went to London to discover the English side of
her family. She stayed on to qualify as a nurse at Bolingbroke Hospital and then
returned to France to work at the American Hospital, first in Nice and later in Paris.
After a year and a half of nursing, she returned to England to qualify as a midwife
at the Mill Road Maternity Hospital in Cambridge. Mahin (Tofigh) Humphrey
taught her midwifery and the Faith.
We met at the firesides held at the Baha'i Centre (4 Gonville Place), and she
became a Baha'i shortly after me, just in time for the Fast in 1961. We were married
in 1962.
Just after our wedding Denise went short-time pioneering, sometimes referred
to as "last-minute ditching" or "the Ridvan shuffle." She went to Peterborough
in 1962 and to Southport in 1963. We met briefly at the World Congress in London
where she was serving as a simultaneous translator. Denise also served on the
Spiritual Assembly of Cambridge before our departure for Swansea in 1964. A year
later I had obtained my teacher's diploma, and Swansea had become a goal town of
the Nine Year Plan. The National Assembly asked us to stay on as pioneers. Swansea
became one of the first Local Assemblies to be formed during that plan. Our first
daughter, Nickie, was born in Swansea in 1964, followed by our son, Jago, in 1966.
He died twenty months later after an accident and is buried near the Guardian's
grave in London.
In 1968, in consultation with the Pioneer Committee, I obtained a choice
of teaching posts, one in Ghana and the other on the Isle of Mull in the Inner
Hebrides. Denise had a preference for the Hebrides, and so we went there thinking
it would be for three years. We stayed for twelve. Rhiannon, our second daughter,
was born there in 1972, and the first Spiritual Assembly of Mull was formed in
1975· As a member of the Scottish Teaching Committee, Denise became known as my
peripatetic wife. From 1978 she worked as a district nurse and midwife, probably the
happiest time of her life, despite the poor health she suffered.
Conscious of her French origins and that we were both French speaking, we
consulted with the British and French National Assemblies and set off in October
1980 for the Basque region with our two daughters and a tent. Flooded out of the
camp site we hastily found our first flat in Saint Jean de Luz. One year later, and a
lot poorer, Denise found a grueling, sixty hours a week night-duty job in a sanatorium
in Cambo-les-Bains. Fortunately some while later a new law reduced the
shift to thirty-nine hours while maintaining the same salary. From this time on her
health deteriorated steadily until she died of cancer on July 1, 1996.
The funeral was a little short of a miracle, taking place as it did in the village
of Sare, one of the bastions of traditional Basque culture and where, so recently, we
encountered opposition to the presence of a "foreign" faith or sect, and the mayor
forbade the participation of the Baha'is at a book exhibition where we had regularly
had a stand over the past five years. Our main difficulty was to find suitable
premises for the funeral ceremony. The local curate would not let us use the lovely
chapel in our part of the village, and in the end the mayor lent us the youth hall, which
was not obviously suitable, bur the only real possibility, and Nickie and Rhiannon
transformed it beyond recognition. Over one hundred people were crowded into that
inadequate hall, and without any direct explanation of the Faith, its depth
and beauty were evident and felt by all in a way no formal or intellectual presentation
could ever have done. Each person received a copy of the program. Never has Denise
taught so many, so well, as the day she left us! It was the climax to a life of teaching
by example.
Jeremy Fox
DENISE Fox
1931-1996
DEEPLY GRIEVED PASSING DEVOTED HANDMAIDEN
BAHA'U'LLAH DENISE FOX. HER STALWART HEROIC PIONEER SERVICES
WITH HER BELOVED HUSBAND AND CHILDREN IN BRITISH
ISLES, ESPECIALLY IN ISLAND OF MULL, AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN
BASQUE REGION OF FRANCE, IMPERISHABLY RECORDED ANNALS
FAITH IN THOSE AREAS, CONSTITUTE SHINING EXAMPLE FUTURE
GENERATIONS FRENCH AND BRITISH FOLLOWERS CAUSE GOD. CONVEY
HEARTFELT SYMPATHY JEREMY FOX AND MEMBERS FAMILY. PRAYING
HOLY SHRINES PROGRESS HER NOBLE SOUL ALL WORLDS GOD.
Universal House of Justice
July 4, 1996
Denise Girardo was born in Le Canner, near Cannes, France, on June 21,
1931. Her mother, who declared her faith in Baha'u'llah in 1983, was originally British,
and her father, like so many from Cote d'Azur, was French, but his family was
originally Italian.
Denise was brought up in Provence, with the exception of a difficult period
during the war when the family moved to Toulouse and her mother went into hiding.
Denise was subsequently transferred to a farm in the Pyrenees with the help of the
Red Cross.
After school she worked for a while as a shop assistant on Promenade de la
Croisette in Cannes. Later she went to London to discover the English side of
her family. She stayed on to qualify as a nurse at Bolingbroke Hospital and then
returned to France to work at the American Hospital, first in Nice and later in Paris.
After a year and a half of nursing, she returned to England to qualify as a midwife
at the Mill Road Maternity Hospital in Cambridge. Mahin (Tofigh) Humphrey
taught her midwifery and the Faith.
We met at the firesides held at the Baha'i Centre (4 Gonville Place), and she
became a Baha'i shortly after me, just in time for the Fast in 1961. We were married
in 1962.
Just after our wedding Denise went short-time pioneering, sometimes referred
to as "last-minute ditching" or "the Ridvan shuffle." She went to Peterborough
in 1962 and to Southport in 1963. We met briefly at the World Congress in London
where she was serving as a simultaneous translator. Denise also served on the
Spiritual Assembly of Cambridge before our departure for Swansea in 1964. A year
later I had obtained my teacher's diploma, and Swansea had become a goal town of
the Nine Year Plan. The National Assembly asked us to stay on as pioneers. Swansea
became one of the first Local Assemblies to be formed during that plan. Our first
daughter, Nickie, was born in Swansea in 1964, followed by our son, Jago, in 1966.
He died twenty months later after an accident and is buried near the Guardian's
grave in London.
In 1968, in consultation with the Pioneer Committee, I obtained a choice
of teaching posts, one in Ghana and the other on the Isle of Mull in the Inner
Hebrides. Denise had a preference for the Hebrides, and so we went there thinking
it would be for three years. We stayed for twelve. Rhiannon, our second daughter,
was born there in 1972, and the first Spiritual Assembly of Mull was formed in
1975· As a member of the Scottish Teaching Committee, Denise became known as my
peripatetic wife. From 1978 she worked as a district nurse and midwife, probably the
happiest time of her life, despite the poor health she suffered.
Conscious of her French origins and that we were both French speaking, we
consulted with the British and French National Assemblies and set off in October
1980 for the Basque region with our two daughters and a tent. Flooded out of the
camp site we hastily found our first flat in Saint Jean de Luz. One year later, and a
lot poorer, Denise found a grueling, sixty hours a week night-duty job in a sanatorium
in Cambo-les-Bains. Fortunately some while later a new law reduced the
shift to thirty-nine hours while maintaining the same salary. From this time on her
health deteriorated steadily until she died of cancer on July 1, 1996.
The funeral was a little short of a miracle, taking place as it did in the village
of Sare, one of the bastions of traditional Basque culture and where, so recently, we
encountered opposition to the presence of a "foreign" faith or sect, and the mayor
forbade the participation of the Baha'is at a book exhibition where we had regularly
had a stand over the past five years. Our main difficulty was to find suitable
premises for the funeral ceremony. The local curate would not let us use the lovely
chapel in our part of the village, and in the end the mayor lent us the youth hall, which
was not obviously suitable, bur the only real possibility, and Nickie and Rhiannon
transformed it beyond recognition. Over one hundred people were crowded into that
inadequate hall, and without any direct explanation of the Faith, its depth
and beauty were evident and felt by all in a way no formal or intellectual presentation
could ever have done. Each person received a copy of the program. Never has Denise
taught so many, so well, as the day she left us! It was the climax to a life of teaching
by example.
Jeremy Fox
1931-1996
DEEPLY GRIEVED PASSING DEVOTED HANDMAIDEN
BAHA'U'LLAH DENISE FOX. HER STALWART HEROIC PIONEER SERVICES
WITH HER BELOVED HUSBAND AND CHILDREN IN BRITISH
ISLES, ESPECIALLY IN ISLAND OF MULL, AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN
BASQUE REGION OF FRANCE, IMPERISHABLY RECORDED ANNALS
FAITH IN THOSE AREAS, CONSTITUTE SHINING EXAMPLE FUTURE
GENERATIONS FRENCH AND BRITISH FOLLOWERS CAUSE GOD. CONVEY
HEARTFELT SYMPATHY JEREMY FOX AND MEMBERS FAMILY. PRAYING
HOLY SHRINES PROGRESS HER NOBLE SOUL ALL WORLDS GOD.
Universal House of Justice
July 4, 1996
Denise Girardo was born in Le Canner, near Cannes, France, on June 21,
1931. Her mother, who declared her faith in Baha'u'llah in 1983, was originally British,
and her father, like so many from Cote d'Azur, was French, but his family was
originally Italian.
Denise was brought up in Provence, with the exception of a difficult period
during the war when the family moved to Toulouse and her mother went into hiding.
Denise was subsequently transferred to a farm in the Pyrenees with the help of the
Red Cross.
After school she worked for a while as a shop assistant on Promenade de la
Croisette in Cannes. Later she went to London to discover the English side of
her family. She stayed on to qualify as a nurse at Bolingbroke Hospital and then
returned to France to work at the American Hospital, first in Nice and later in Paris.
After a year and a half of nursing, she returned to England to qualify as a midwife
at the Mill Road Maternity Hospital in Cambridge. Mahin (Tofigh) Humphrey
taught her midwifery and the Faith.
We met at the firesides held at the Baha'i Centre (4 Gonville Place), and she
became a Baha'i shortly after me, just in time for the Fast in 1961. We were married
in 1962.
Just after our wedding Denise went short-time pioneering, sometimes referred
to as "last-minute ditching" or "the Ridvan shuffle." She went to Peterborough
in 1962 and to Southport in 1963. We met briefly at the World Congress in London
where she was serving as a simultaneous translator. Denise also served on the
Spiritual Assembly of Cambridge before our departure for Swansea in 1964. A year
later I had obtained my teacher's diploma, and Swansea had become a goal town of
the Nine Year Plan. The National Assembly asked us to stay on as pioneers. Swansea
became one of the first Local Assemblies to be formed during that plan. Our first
daughter, Nickie, was born in Swansea in 1964, followed by our son, Jago, in 1966.
He died twenty months later after an accident and is buried near the Guardian's
grave in London.
In 1968, in consultation with the Pioneer Committee, I obtained a choice
of teaching posts, one in Ghana and the other on the Isle of Mull in the Inner
Hebrides. Denise had a preference for the Hebrides, and so we went there thinking
it would be for three years. We stayed for twelve. Rhiannon, our second daughter,
was born there in 1972, and the first Spiritual Assembly of Mull was formed in
1975· As a member of the Scottish Teaching Committee, Denise became known as my
peripatetic wife. From 1978 she worked as a district nurse and midwife, probably the
happiest time of her life, despite the poor health she suffered.
Conscious of her French origins and that we were both French speaking, we
consulted with the British and French National Assemblies and set off in October
1980 for the Basque region with our two daughters and a tent. Flooded out of the
camp site we hastily found our first flat in Saint Jean de Luz. One year later, and a
lot poorer, Denise found a grueling, sixty hours a week night-duty job in a sanatorium
in Cambo-les-Bains. Fortunately some while later a new law reduced the
shift to thirty-nine hours while maintaining the same salary. From this time on her
health deteriorated steadily until she died of cancer on July 1, 1996.
The funeral was a little short of a miracle, taking place as it did in the village
of Sare, one of the bastions of traditional Basque culture and where, so recently, we
encountered opposition to the presence of a "foreign" faith or sect, and the mayor
forbade the participation of the Baha'is at a book exhibition where we had regularly
had a stand over the past five years. Our main difficulty was to find suitable
premises for the funeral ceremony. The local curate would not let us use the lovely
chapel in our part of the village, and in the end the mayor lent us the youth hall, which
was not obviously suitable, bur the only real possibility, and Nickie and Rhiannon
transformed it beyond recognition. Over one hundred people were crowded into that
inadequate hall, and without any direct explanation of the Faith, its depth
and beauty were evident and felt by all in a way no formal or intellectual presentation
could ever have done. Each person received a copy of the program. Never has Denise
taught so many, so well, as the day she left us! It was the climax to a life of teaching
by example.
Jeremy Fox
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buried in the village of Sare, France in the Basque region
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