Janet Bloomfield
10 October 1953 - 2 April 2007


Janet in Paris, May 2003

Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Dear Friends,

Firstly, may we say a deep thank you for all the messages of love and support that we have received. We’re sure that you’ll understand that we would like to respond to them all, but have been coping with the many facets that accompany such a sudden death.

As the Easter holidays are now over, we have been able to finalise the arrangements for Janet’s funeral. It will be held on Thursday, 19 April in Saffron Walden.

There will be a Funeral Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends (Quakers) at 2.30 pm in Saffron Walden Friends Meeting House. All who wish to attend are welcome. The funeral will be followed by the burial at Brinkley Woodland Cemetery, attended by family and close friends. Flowers are being arranged by the Friends Meeting.

It is the tradition of Friends to hold a Memorial Meeting a few weeks after the Funeral as “Testimony to the Grace of God in the Life of Our Friend, Janet Bloomfield.” We are arranging such a Memorial Meeting for Janet to celebrate and give thanks for her loving and generous life. We are planning for it to take place on the afternoon of Saturday 12 May 2007 in Saffron Walden. This Meeting will also be an opportunity for any of you who are unable to attend the funeral to pay your respects. (Another memorial ceremony for Janet will take place in California in the summer.)

It would be really helpful, although by no means necessary, if you could let us know if you are coming to either the funeral or the Memorial Meeting or both. Please let us know by sending an email to rsvp@atomicmirror.org If you have questions about practical arrangements, please phone Helen Gibbs at the Saffron Walden Friends Meeting House on +44 (0) 1799 521832. A map of Saffron Walden can be found here.

We will be organizing the website, www.janetbloomfield.com to become a tribute to Janet’s life and work, and to allow all who wish to contribute to it. In the meantime, we will post practical details there. We will also be arranging a fund for contributions to support some special aspects of the work that Janet was so committed to.

We invite you to pass this message on to anyone you know, and who we may have forgotten. We deeply appreciate your support, both near and far, as we walk through this landscape of grief and mourning. Look forward to seeing you all soon.

Yours,

Richard, Lucie, Robin and Pamela

6 April 2007

Dear Friends,

We are all in deep shock and mourning at the sudden death of Janet Bloomfield, our beloved UK Director and Celtic guiding spirit of the Atomic Mirror, on Monday, 2 April 2007 in Hereford, England. The Atomic Mirror is in mourning.

We ask you to “hold in the Light,” in the words and spirit of the Quaker tradition, her husband, Richard, her children, Lucie and Robin, and all those in an ever expanding circle who loved her.

Janet loved the whole world, and the outpouring of phone calls, letters, emails, messages that keep coming in from all over England, Australia, Sweden, France, Austria, Geneva, California, New York, India, Japan, Florida and many other places show us that the whole world loved her back.

Thank you to everyone for your love and support, your prayers, your heartfelt messages. Please bear with us as we struggle to make the necessary plans after Janet’s sudden and tragic death. We will tell these plans to you as they emerge, so that we can share together our grief at her death and celebrate our joy in her life.

We invite you to check back here for details about the funeral and memorial services. The funeral is planned for the third week of April at the Quaker Meeting House in Saffron Walden, Janet’s home. In the Quaker tradition, a memorial meeting will take place within three months time, which will celebrate and honor Janet’s life in all its aspects. We are also planning to hold a ceremony in California sometime in the summer.

We are creating a separate website to honor Janet. Janet’s son, Robin, our gifted webmaster, is working on it, and we will announce it here as soon as it is up.

Please continue to send your cards to Richard, Lucie and Robin Bloomfield at 25 Farmadine, Saffron Walden, England CB11 3HR. The phone here is +44 179 951 6189. Please send any emails to Pamela at pmeidell@gmail.com. We appreciate more than we can ever express your walking with us through this time of great shock and grief.

With love,

Pamela Meidell
Director
In Saffron Walden

Monika Szymurska
Assistant Director
In Oxnard