{"id":3811,"date":"2019-02-13T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:45:23","slug":"deacon-jimmie-flewellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"IPS Saddened by Deacon Jimmie Flewellen Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IPS<\/strong><\/a> community is saddened to learn of the recent passing of one of our Advisory Council members, Deacon Jimmie Flewellen<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rev. Jimmie Flewellen passed away on January 31, 2019.\u00a0 He was 92 years old.<\/p>\n

Rev. Jimmie received a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies<\/em><\/a> degree from IPS in 1983 and was honored with a Damen Award<\/a> from IPS at Loyola University Chicago<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n

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A video tribute<\/a> honoring Rev. Jimmie Flewellen was presented at the Founders’ Dinner on Saturday, June 8, 2013.<\/p>\n

Rev. Jimmie was the first African-American Catholic chaplain for the United States Justice Department, along with being one of the first deacons in the Archdiocese of Chicago.\u00a0 He remained an active member of the IPS community for years, serving as a member of the IPS Advisory Council.<\/span><\/p>\n

To view the 2013 video tribute to Rev. Jimmie<\/span>, click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Courtesy of A.A. Rayner & Sons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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To learn more about IPS, go to https:\/\/www.luc.edu\/ips\/<\/a>.\u00a0 For those interested in applying to IPS, go to https:\/\/gpem.luc.edu\/apply\/<\/a>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The IPS community is saddened to learn of the recent passing of one of our Advisory Council members, Deacon Jimmie Flewellen. Rev. Jimmie Flewellen passed away on January 31, 2019.\u00a0 He was 92 years old. Rev. Jimmie received a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies degree from IPS in 1983 and was honored with a read more <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,13,14,15,17,19,21,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaith","category-ips","category-ips-alumni","category-ips-events","category-ips-photos","category-ips-students","category-jesuit-university","category-loyola-university","category-social-justice-community-development","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}