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Priest Serves
Gresham Church
On M LK Jr. Blvd.
From K illingsw orth to Burnside
All are Invited to Pray For A11 Life:
Father C harles W ood, w ho for­ arts. As an older teen, he becam e
merly served Holy Redeem er and active in the Catholic C harism atic
Sacred Heart C hurches in Portland, Renew al m ovem ent. H is under­
has returned to the metro area and graduate studies in econom ics and
is now serving as the parochial governm ent, and graduate studies
v ic a r at St. H en ry C h u rc h in in theology took place at the U ni­
versity o f Notre Dame.
Gresham.
W ood had careers in new spaper
W ood is a priest o f the Portland
Archdiocese and a m em ber of the reporting, m agazine w riting and
Brotherhood o f the People o f Praise, m arketing before his studies and
an international, primarily lay com ­ form ation for the priesthood. He
munity with members who belong to w orked for the C atholic N ew s Ser­
many different Christian churches. vice in W ashington, D.C. and for
The Brotherhood is a group o f men the new spaper o f the A rchdiocese
in the People o f Praise who sense a o f W ashington. His w ork also ap ­
call to permanent celibacy, sim plic­ peared in U.S. C atholic, O u r Sun­
ity and a com m on life of prayer, ser­ day V isitor and the daily new spa­
per o f South Bend, Indiana, where Fr. Charles Wood is the parochial vicar at St. Henry church in
vice and apostolic activity.
Gresham.
Born in W ashington, D .C ., Fa­ he lived for 15 years.
A fter h is o rd in atio n in July ferred to as a sso cia te p asto r) at through last July, he w as on as-
ther W ood especially sees the in­
fluence o f the nation’s capitol in his 2000, F ath er W ood w as the p a ro ­ H oly R ed eem er C h u rch and Sa- sig n m en t for th e P eo p le o f P raise
strong interests in politics and the chial v icar (m o re co m m o n ly re- c re d H eart. F rom su m m er 2002 in M in n eap o lis/S t. Paul.
In Loving Memory o f
Funeral services were held Thurs­
day, Oct. 25 in Inglewood, Calif., for
Sandra Ann Penney-Olia, a former
Portland resident.
She was bom April 22, 1945 in
Birmingham, Ala., and later moved to
Portland where she was married and
had four sons; Avery, Dewayne,
Gregory, and Darryl Penney. She
moved to San Francisco and later to
Los Angeles, where she had two
daughters; Nicole Penney and Stacie
Olia.
She advanced her education whi le
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