SAINTS

Nat Lauriat (d)

Jim Adams (d)

Dick Fewkes

Charles Magistro

Duncan Howlett (d)

Leslie Pennington (d)

Frank Holmes (d)

Mary Harrington

Fred Gillis

Frank Hall

Nat had a long and fruitful career as a Unitarian Universalist minister, and is remembered with great affection by all of the congregations he served.

Nat graduated from Harvard University with a BA in 1943. He received his Bachelor of Divinity from Meadville Theological School in 1945 and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Meadville-Lombard in 1972.

He served the First Unitarian Church of San Jose, California from 1945 to 1951; the Unitarian Church of Northampton, Massachusetts from 1951 to 1956; the Church of Our Father, Unitarian, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1956 to 1963; the Unitarian Church of Hartford, Connecticut from 1963 to 1985; and the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Sun Cities from 1985 to 1995. He served briefly as interim minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Flagstaff in 1999 and was a regular in that pulpit in recent years.

At his retirement from the Sun Cities church, the congregation made him their Minister Emeritus, as had the Hartford church in 1987. Retirement for Nat meant regular preaching in a variety of pulpits. He remained active both mentally and physically, enjoying writing, his commitments for social action, volunteering at the Sedona Library and visiting his daughters and friends until just weeks before his death.

Born March 22, 1922 in Newton, Massachusetts, Nat had been an Arizona resident since 1985. A life-long Yankee, he grew to love the desert.

SOURCE: From Nat's Memorial Service (UUA Archives)

WHAT MAKES A PERSON A SAINT? The description is found in Article 2 of our Disciplines:

 All founding members of Greenfield Group are “saints” which confers upon them all the privileges but none of the obligations of membership. In addition, the Group may vote to confer the status of Saint upon any member who has been retired from the Group for a least one convocation. Sainthood is meant to reflect our high esteem for the retired member due to service in the Greenfield Group and the longevity of the membership of the retired member.