Chronology: Date 1970-09-26

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1970 26 Sep 197-	The passing of Florence Evaline (Lorol) Schopflocher (b.1886 in Montreal. QC) in the Green Acre area. She was buried at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Eliot, Maine [Find a grave] Wife of Hand of the Cause of God Siegfried Schopflocher. For his "In Memoriam" see BW7p664. She circled the globe nine times on travel teaching tours and visited some 86 countries, many of them multiple times. She travelled to Iran twice visiting parts not previously visited by Western Bahá'ís. She visited the Guardian 11 times. She had several audiences with King Feisal in Iraq and discussed the question of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád with him. Favourite themes for her public talks were the World Order letters of Shoghi Effendi and the emancipation and education of women. A radiant star went from the West to the East. [BW15p488-489] See Bahá'í Chronicles. See her account of her travels in her autobiographical book Sunburst. See a brief biography in The Bahá'í Community of the British Isles 1844-1963 p464-465.	- Births and deaths; - In Memoriam; Biography; Canada; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Lorol Schopflocher; Montreal, QC; Quebec, Canada; Siegfried Schopflocher


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