Feb 5, 2018
Karen Ridout, Senior Partner and Owner at Global Learning Partners, Inc. passed away on February 1, 2018. Additional information regarding the funeral and obituary will be posted here when it is available. Please feel free to leave any comments for the GLP community and family in the comments section.
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From Peter Noteboom, President, Global Learning Partners:
It is with a great deal of respect, love, and sadness that Global Learning Partners celebrates the life of Karen Ridout, a beloved and close friend, partner, teacher and mentor. May her spirit rest in peace, and dance forever with the Spirit.
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From Jane Vella, Founder of Global Learning Partners:
My friend Karen Ridout is, and always will be, my inspiration. The one word I think of when I think of Karen is FIDELITY. Her fidelity to her son David and her daughter Kacey, and to her four beautiful granddaughters and their dad (Kacey’s husband, Bill), and to her own two brothers, Jim and Bill, to her friends and colleagues, to her church family and to all whom she served! Fidelity!
I met Karen at our Church of the Nativity when I joined in 1984. Karen came to dialogue in her teaching as a fish to water: it was “arriving where she started, knowing the place for the first time!” (T.S. Eliot)
Her wonderful phrase: learning at the cellular level describes what Karen offered to everyone she taught or served or, in fact, met! Karen is already desperately missed, and she will never be gone from Global Learning Partners worldwide, or from her family and friends or from the Church of the Nativity.
OBITUARY:
Raleigh, NC – Karen Gunlicks Ridout, 74, died unexpectedly after a short illness at Rex Hospital on Thursday, February 1, 2018.
Miss Ridout was a senior partner with Global Learning Partners, teaching adults globally about Dialogue Education. She was passionate about promoting interpersonal understanding and acceptance through education.
She was also a founding member of the Church of the Nativity in Raleigh, NC. She was instrumental in shaping the church through dialogue education and leading it in the direction of becoming a No Waste Church.
Funeral services will be at 3:00pm, Sunday February 11, 2018 at Church of the Nativity in Raleigh, NC with the Rev. Stephanie Allen officiating. There will also be a prayer service on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at First United Methodist Church, Rockingham, NC at 6:30 pm, the Rev. Allen Bingham officiating.
She is survived by two children: David Ridout of Raleigh, NC and Kacey Matheson (Bill) of Rockingham, NC, and two brothers: Bill Gunlicks (Pam) of Chicago, Il., and Jim Gunlicks (Lois) of Fairfax Va., and four grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to The Church of the Nativity, 8849 Ray Road, Raleigh, NC 27613.
“We will miss you Karen”