It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of our beloved member and friend, Allan Yeager. Allan joined our community in 2006, served two terms as a trustee, and later became a volunteer member of our staff team as the Communications Officer, a title he happily claimed for himself. His pride and joy was the Center’s website, which he designed, maintained, and generously funded.
Among the many blessings he leaves us are his wisdom, elegance, loyalty, humor, and generosity. In the wider Sonoma County community, he is remembered for his excellence as a teacher, often named as a favorite by his students.
Allan, we love you and bless you on your forward journey. Thank you for walking with us on this spiritual path.
A memorial will be held at the Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa, 2075 Occidental Road, on Saturday, January 10, at 2 pm. The family invites attendees to bring cookies and finger food.
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I miss his lively and big-hearted self. Can’t imagine the Center without him.
Kathy Galvin
On the day we were evacuated from our home during the firestorm of Oct. 2017, we had no idea where to go. We had two vehicles packed with our belongings and no where to stay. Within an hour and a few texts/calls from friends at the Center, Allan had offered to let us stay at his AirBnB next door to his home in Guerneville. We were welcomed warmly by him and made to feel at home. Over the next two weeks, Allan cared for us lovingly like we were his family and made a very scary time into an adventure in his home town, with lunches out and places to explore. When we left to return to our fire-safe home, we felt a deep gratefulness that Spirit had provided Allan to care for us. Every year on the anniversary of the fire, I wrote a thank you note to him for his gracious care and love. Blessing to him on his journey - we will not forget him.
With love and gratitude,
Sherrie, Paul and Alex Corbett
Allan was enthusiastically present, and so generous with his time and ideas.
He was epitomized living the science of mind in a real way. I loved him!
HUGS
Venus
I worked at the Center many years ago and served for 35 years as a congregant and Practitioner. Allan was consistently gracious, supportive, accepting, helpful and a friend always. At times I would experience feelings of overwhelm, in need of help and support or even a friendly and warm conversation while in the copy room. Allan always lifted me up, made me feel valuable and opened my heart. He was a jewel in the crown of this community.
Love and blessings, Maggie Cole
Ah, there is much to say about Allan. I still refer to his Style Sheet which he made for us to use when editing the website. He was a stickler for making the language consistent across the pages. He was so proud of that website that he kept current for many years. I have a copy of Allan's Favorites which was his Foundations class project, Summer 2006. A lover of fonts, like me, we valued those rules of writing and style.
hugs, Bette
Dear Uncle Buddy was a member of the Stepping Stones bookstore team that traveled to Asilomar the final 2 years of the encampment. We rented houses instead of staying on campus and our little band ran a much praised and highly successful bookstore at the conference center. Uncle Buddy was calm, competent, charming, and completely enjoyable as a house and business partner. We stayed friends and mutual admirers from then on. I had the blessing of visiting him in his home after his diagnosis. When I knocked on his door he called out my nickname from Asilomar and let me know he was ready to get going on his next adventure. His calmness and willingness transformed me into being okay with letting him go on. What a blessing to witness such a gentle soul on his gentle journey.
Jennifer Mann,
Every time I ever interacted Allan he said the same sweet phrase to me: “I’ve got my eye on you! “ It warmed my heart every single time.
Thank you for the invitation, Edward. I will certainly be there. He was a very special man.
Love, Karen
I first met Allan in the mid 1980s when were both living in Guerneville and volunteering for Face to Face AIDS Support Network as caregivers. We had both already lost many freinds to AIDS and it would only get more tragic. We had rare contact for several years after I moved.
Sometime in the early 2000s we saw each other here at the Center. Our eyes locked. "Om My God!! I KNOW YOU!!" BIG HUGS and we picked up where we left off, but closer. We eventually became Staff confidants the way you really need that one person in even a very high functioning work environment. Not to diss the staff, NO, but to share frustrations about volunteering, member experiences and such.
Allan was my best support when I went through the the drawn out illness and death of my mother. He lit me up with both warm greetings and sad reflections, whichever was going on for him that day. Giving me permission to do the same. All of me, messy me was loved.
I'll see you soon Uncle Buddy! Make us a warm welcome in only the way the hostess with the mostest can! Missing you to pieces until then.
Martha McCabe
When I first started Zooming as a new, covid graduated practitioner at our center, I didn't know a lot of folks. Allan always made me feel so welcomed and included when I logged on as he boomed out, "Look, it's Sheri Pool! Hi Sheri!" I've been forever warmed by his generous and thoughtful nature.
Love, Sheri
