Obit of Chase, Don (c200) - Unknown County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 18 Aug 2004 Return to Unknown County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okstate.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== DON CHASE Published on February 7, 1998 The Santa Rosa Press Democratt Don Chase retired from the Methodist ministry in 1972, but he never stopped working to improve the lives of the world's downtrodden. "He always said we need to practice love in all our relationships -- to the poor and oppressed as well as to our friends," said his wife, Florence Juvinall Chase. Chase died Jan. 27 at a Santa Rosa convalescent hospital after succumbing to Alzheimer's disease. He was 94. Born in Oklahoma, he came to California at age 16 when his father moved his family of 11 to Atascadero. He worked his way through Stanford University, graduating in 1926 and marrying his first wife, the late Doris Chase, in the Stanford Chapel. He graduated from Union Seminary in New York in 1929, and returned to California. During his career as a minister, he worked at United Methodist churches in San Francisco, Redding, San Bruno, Colusa, Crescent City, Sacramento, Jackson, Sutter Creek and Colfax. After retiring to Santa Rosa, he was instrumental in helping start Christ Church United Methodist on Yulupa Avenue. Chase was a tireless social activist, and in 1988 he won the Methodist Federation for Social Action's highest award for "60 years of working for peace and justice." A student of Central American culture and politics, he traveled extensively in the region and during the 1980s was a vociferous opponent of President Ronald Reagan's policy of supporting the contras in their attempt to overthrow the revolutionary government of Nicaragua. In 1985, at age 81, he was arrested for blocking the entrance to an Army recruiting center as a protest of the U.S. trade embargo of Nicaragua. He married Florence Juvinall, the widow of his longtime friend and colleague Andrew Juvinall, in 1988. Chase is survived by his son, Eugene Chase of Roseville; his sisters, Mildred Cattaneo of San Luis Obispo and Rose Sundown of Campbell; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a niece. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Christ Church United Methodist. Contributions may be made to the Methodist Federation for Social Action. Daniels Chapel of the Roses is handling arrangements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Unknown County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okstate.html