Fife, Alana (1982-2003) - Revision history

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	Fife was cremated in Semarang before her ashes and Showaker's body were flown back to Manitoba and Pennsylvania, accompanied by MCC workers.		Fife was cremated in Semarang before her ashes and Showaker's body were flown back to Manitoba and Pennsylvania, accompanied by MCC workers.


			''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 2003 Feb 17 p. 6

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			<center><font size="+1">Special memorial planned for Fife, Showaker</font></center>

			<h3><span style="font-variant : small-caps">By Robert Rhodes</span></h3>
			<font size="1">Mennonite Weekly Review</font>

			The father of a Mennonite Central Committee worker killed in Indonesia wants to help the people his daughter served, as a testament to her life and dedication to Christian mission.

			Darryl Fife of Calgary, Alta., plans to travel to Indonesia in the next two months to look at options for establishing a permanent memorial there. He will meet with leaders in two Javanese communities where his daughter, Alana Fife of Winnipeg, Man., and Hannah Showaker of Newville, Pa., worked through MCC's Serving and Learning Together program.

			The two young women were killed Jan. 22 in a flash flood while hiking near a waterfall in the Telemoyo mountain area of Java.

			Fife, 21, a student at the University of Winnipeg, taught in a grade school in the city of Solo, Java. Showaker, 24, a 2002 graduate of Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., taught in an elementary school in Java's Banyutowo Village.

			Darryl Fife said he would like to explore several possibilities for helping the children in those communities. An orphanage, school expansion or even a homeless shelter are among the prospects. The chief requirement is that they benefit children in those areas, he said.

			Fife said he would leave it to community leaders on Java to determine the project and its location.

			"I've been saying why give a tractor to a farmer who can't afford to buy any gas?" Fife said. Letting the communities determine what they need most, he believes, would be the best memorial for his daughter and Showaker.

			As of Feb. 5, Fife said about $15,000 Canadian had been raised for the memorial fund, which is being handled by Calvary Temple in Winnipeg, a Pentecostal church where Alana Fife was an active member. About half the amount was raised at Fife's funeral at the church Jan. 31`. The Fife family is matching that total.

			The fund will be left open, fife said, so that donations can be ongoing and supplemented by the family as needed.

			Fife said he is consulting with MCC officials in Alberta, and with Showaker's mother, Joan, to plan the memorial. Showaker's church, Carlisle (Pa.) Brethren in Christ, established its own fund in Showaker's memory, to give financial help to short-term missionaries from the congregation.

			Fife met with MCC executive director Ron Mathies in Calgary Feb. 8 to discuss the project.

			"We want to be supportive . . . because Alana was an MCCer and we want to see if we can help facilitate this," Mathies said.

			<blockquote>Donations to the fund may be sent to:<br>
			Alana Fife memorial Fund<br>
			c/0 Calvary Temple, 400 Hargrave St.<br>
			Winnipeg, MB R3B 3A8CANADA</blockquote>


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			text of obituary:

			<center><font size="+2">'''Mourning, support in wake of two MCC deaths'''</font></center>

			<font size="+1">Memorial services help Indonesian churches, families express sorrow</font>

			<span style="font-variant : small-caps:><h3>By Maria Linder-Hess</h3></span>
			<font size="1">MCC News Service</font>

			''[Transcriber's note: The same two photos published on page one of the 27 Jan 2003 ''Mennonite Weekly Review'' were repeated here.]''

			AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee workers in Indonesia have felt an outpouring of support from Indonesian Mennonite churches following the Jan. 22 deaths of Alana Fife and Hannah Showaker.

			The two MCC workers were visiting a scenic waterfall near Salatiga, Java, along with fellow MCC worker Daniel Warren and Thomas Sarhana Hadi, an Indonesian friend, when a flash flood swept the two women away.

			As news of the tragedy spread, Indonesian Mennonites joined the search for Fife, 21, and Showaker, 24.

			The two women, part of the Serving and learning Together program, were living with Indonesian host families while teaching English to primary school students.

			Through the SALT program, "these young people belong not only to MCC but also belong very clearly to the families and churches that host them," said Jeanne Jantzi, MCC Indonesia country co-representative. "Their host families and churches shared deeply in the tragedy and the grieving that followed."

			While MCC workers mourned and worked on the logistics of sending the women's remains home, Indonesian Mennonites supported them in many ways.

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			<h3>I talked with my parents over those days and tried to explain that I was by no means alone in my grieving.</h3>

			<p style="text-align:right">— Daniel Warren</p>

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			"Dozens of people, especially church members, just dropped everything for the whole week and came to share the suffering with us," Jantzi said.

			The churches provided emotional support not only to MCC workers but also to the Indonesian host families, who also were deeply stricken by the deaths. Fife, of Winnipeg, Man., lived with Pak Paulus and Ibu Ruth Hartono in Solo, Java. Showaker, of Newville, Pa., lived with Pak Saptojoadi and Ibu Darmini in Banyutowo village, Java.

			Paulus Hartono and Saptojoadi are both Mennonite pastors, and Saptojoadi participated in MCC's International Visitor Exchange Program, a reciprocal program to SALT, in 1973.

			Warren, of Shoreline, Wash., who was photographing Fife and Showaker when the flood struck, also found himself surrounded by support.

			"I talked with my parents over those days and tried to explain that I was by no means alone in my grieving," Warren said. "More than 40 people from my church alone in Sukodono made the three-plus hour trip at various times to visit with me and attend memorial services."

			More than 300 people attended a Jan. 25 memorial service in Salatiga, including MCC workers, Indonesian host families, members of host churches, friends, university students, co-workers, language teachers and church leaders. Some traveled hours to attend.

			"And a steady stream of people traveled to Semarang, where the bodies were kept in a funeral home, to lay their hands on the caskets and say goodbye," Jantzi said.

			Altogether, five memorial services took place in Indonesia.

			Fife was cremated in Semarang before her ashes and Showaker's body were flown back to Manitoba and Pennsylvania, accompanied by MCC workers.


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	Hannah Showaker, 24, of Newville, Pa., and Alana Fife, 21, of Winnipeg, Man., were killed when a wall of water rushed over the falls and swept them downstream.		Hannah Showaker, 24, of Newville, Pa., and Alana Fife, 21, of Winnipeg, Man., were killed when a wall of water rushed over the falls and swept them downstream.

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