MALONE, Rev. Dr. David
MALONE, EVANS, AUDOS, WARNER, LAIRD, STIBOLT, KINGATPM
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/10/2013 at 12:23:39
Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
October 06, 1995Obituary - Rev. Dr. Alfred R. Malone
June 30, 1924 ~ September 30, 1995FALMOUTH, Mass. - The Rev. Dr. Alfred R. Malone, 70, of Fallmouth, Mass., died Saturday (Sept. 30, 1995) at his home.
There will be a memorial service at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, at the Church of the Messiah Woods Hole. Chapman, Cole, and Gleason Funeral Home, Falmouth, Mass., is in charge of arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Cape Cod Council of Churches, the Falmouth Service Center, the Samaritans, Oxfam, or the Church of the Messiah.
A Massachusetts native [born June 30, 1924, Ashland, MA], he held undergraduate and graduate degrees from Boston University and Andover Newton Theological School.
An Episcopal priest, he served several churhes in the Midwest, the last one being St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bettendorf, Iowa, where he was the rector for 10 years.
He was rector at St. John's Episcopal Church, Mason City, Iowa, from 1952 to 1963. He was instrumental in organizing the Mason City Council of Churches. He was also a psychotherapist and had practiced in Falmouth since 1973.
He served as interim rector of the Church of Messiah in 1989 and was a frequent guest preacher in various churches in the community.
His great concern always was for people in need, and he devoted much of his life to causes which might alleviate their suffering.
During the racial struggle in the 1960s, he helped take supplies to the blacks in Selma.
He helped found and was past president of the Samaritans and the Falmouth Service Center. He served on the Falmouth Human Services Committee.
He was a strong believer in the larger religious community and served on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, the Ecumenical Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, the Falmouth Clergy Association and the Board of Directors of the Cape Cod Council of Churches of which he was also a past president.
In addition to his wife, Courtney, he leaves his daughters, Donna Evans, Kathleen Audis, and Sherri Warner of Humboldt, Ariz., and Bettendorf, Iowa; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. He also leaves his stepchildren, Courtney Laird, Richard Stibolt, and Katherine Kingston of Los Altos, Calif., San Francisco, Calif. and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and four stepgrandchildren; and two brothers, Robert and Maurice Malone.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013
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