Obituaries - Methodist Conference

Obituaries - Presbyters who have died 2012/2013Cottage Hospital and the Isle of Wight Boys’ Brigade. He married Winifred and they wereproud of their two daughters Susan and Janet. He rejoiced at their respective marriagesto Colin and Bill and delighted in his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In 1972Douglas married Margaret; he was indebted to her in so many ways, especially for thesupport she gave him in his service to Methodism. He had many interests, was a memberof the Wesley Historical society, the Methodist Sacramental Fellowship, the Fellowshipof the Kingdom, was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a life member of theRoyal Institute of Philosophy. Douglas was most proud of the designation “Methodistpreacher”. He died on the 16 August 2012, in the eighty-sixth year of his age and thetwenty-eighth year of his ministry.Ivy Su-Teng Chou: Born in Fuzhou, China, on 2 March 1917. Ivy was the eldest child andher father, a Professor and a Christian, determined that contrary to Chinese culture sheshould have all the chances normally given to a boy. Ivy was given a good education andgraduated in science and became a teacher and later principal of the girls’ school inFuzhou, until the Japanese occupation. In 1946 she went to the USA and graduated witha Master of Education degree in Nashville, continuing her studies at Columbia Universityin New York. Ivy returned to China in 1948 and was principal of a girls’ college in Fuzhoufor two years. As a leading Christian, Ivy was a woman marked out by the Communistregime. She fled from China around 1953, leaving via Hong Kong on a flight to the USA,paid for by a donor whose identity she never discovered. Returning to Columbia Universityshe gained a Doctorate in Education, specialising in planning the leadership programmefor the Methodist Church in Sarawak. In 1955 she became principal of the MethodistTheological School at Sebring, a town in Sarawak. She was ordained in 1958 as an elderin the Malaysian Methodist Church. In 1960, Ivy gained a Master of Divinity degree inNew York and then became a lecturer at Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham. Followingthis she served as an associate minister at Wesley Methodist Church, Singapore. In1972 Ivy became an executive director of the World Council of Churches TheologicalEducation Fund. In 1977 she retired and transferred to the Methodist Church in Britain,settling in Anlaby, Hull, with her friend and retired missionary Doris Webb. Ivy studiedfor an MA in Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and in 1980commenced teaching Chinese culture and language at Hull University, continuing until1992. Throughout this period Ivy preached in the Hull (West) Circuit. In 1986 she broughther beloved niece Helen, aged ten, to the UK to live with herself and Doris and to give hera British education. She died on 27 August 2012, in the ninety-sixth year of her age andthe fifty-fourth year of her ministry.Frederick Stuart Clarke: Born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire on 2 September 1930,Frederick moved to Chesterfield at the age of four and was educated at Littlemoor Churchof England School and Chesterfield Grammar School. After national service in the Royal AirForce, he read History at Worcester College, Oxford. On graduating, he candidated for theMethodist ministry, was accepted for training at Wesley House, Cambridge, and ordained inMethodist Conference Agenda 2013 9