Baha'u'llah

Born in Germany in 1882 with a German father and English mother she grew
up with an insatiable love for travel. In the United States she married an
Englishman. It is not certain when she accepted the Faith but she was on
pilgrimage in 1930 and stayed for a month as companion to Effie Baker. She
was later a great help to the friends in Berlin and Leipzig and gave much
support to Adam Benke who pioneered to Sofia. After suffering many
privations during the war in Germany she wrote to the Guardian in 1947 and
he encouraged her suggestion to pioneer to England. She arrived in early
1948 and settled in her first pioneer post in Nottingham. Within nine
months she was again on the move in response to pioneer calls. Belfast,
Edinburgh, St. Ives, Brighton, and Bournemouth, making six moves in just
over two years by a lady in her late sixties. In 1953 she responded
immediately and was enrolled as a Knight of Baha'u'llah for Malta where,
after numerous vicissitudes and a small but painful accident which
affected her for many months, she was able, some twenty years later, to
witness the formation of the first Spiritual Assembly in Malta. She passed
away, after twenty-seven years of dedicated pioneering which covered four
territories, in May 1974, when the Universal House of Justice cabled:
"PASSING NOBLE SOUL OLGA MILLS GRIEVOUS LOSS BRITISH BAHA'I COMMUNITY. HER
LONG STEADFAST DEVOTION BAHA'U'LLAH SHEDS LUSTRE ANNALS FAITH THAT
COMMUNITY. ISLAND MALTA HISTORICALLY FAMOUS CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ISLAMIC
ERAS RECIPIENT NEW SPIRITUAL POTENTIALITIES THROUGH HEROIC SERVICE KNIGHT
BAHA'U'LLAH DEDICATED BAND PIONEERS. EXPRESS FRIENDS RELATIVES LOVING
SYMPATHY ASSURE ARDENT PRAYERS PROGRESS SOUL." ("Baha'i World", Vol. XVI,
p. 531.)

ALFRED AND EDITH LUCY SUGAR

After hearing of the Faith from her brother, E. T. Hall, Lucy Sugar
accepted the Faith on 28 November 1921, but Alfred remained agnostic until
about 1925. He became well known for his depth of knowledge of the Faith
and for his cogent argument. He was a teacher of the highest order and was
largely responsible for the development of the Faith around Lancashire and
over the Pennines into Bradford and Leeds. Lucy was a member of the
National Assembly in 1929 and Alfred was a member during eight of the
following thirteen years.

Alfred died in December 1961 at the age of 92 (or 93) and was followed in
March 1966 by Lucy aged 90.

CHARLES WILLIAM DUNNING,