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Adventist Amateur Radio Association International
An International Fraternity of SDA Amateur Radio Operators The Adventist Amateur Radio Association International (AARAI) is a worldwide fraternity of ham radio operators who belong to, or are friends of, the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The AARAI runs several nets throughout the week at various times for fellowship and information. Officers are elected every five years. If you are not yet a member, please consider joining—we'd be glad to have you! Silent Key! 
Emerald L. Oxley, WB8QJI
October 23, 1915 - June 24, 2008
Emerald L. Oxley, 92, formerly of Berrien Springs, died Tuesday afternoon, June 24, 2008, at the home of his daughter in West Melbourne, Florida.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, in the Castelbuono Youth Chapel of Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University, Berrien Springs. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Friends are invited to visit with the family from 6 - 8 p.m. Monday, July 7, at Allred Funeral Home in Berrien Springs, and to leave messages online at www.allredfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Emerald’s name may be made to It Is Written, 3 ABN, or Your Story Hour. Emerald was born October 23, 1915, in College View, Nebraska, the son of Roy E. and Clara (Twing) Oxley. In 1918, at age 3, Emerald's family moved to Brookfield, Illinois. He grew up in the Brookfield, LaGrange, and Old Broadview, Illinois, area, and graduated from Old Broadview Academy in 1934. Emerald then attended Emmanuel Missionary College (now Andrews University) for four years.
In July of 1939, Emerald married Dorothy Spohr, of LaGrange. After their marriage, Emerald worked on a farm as a farm-hand, and also worked as a cabinet maker for the College Wood Products at the old Broadview College in Broadview. In 1955 the family moved to Berrien Springs, and he began his career as a pressman at Patterson Printing Company in Benton Harbor, working there for 29 years until his retirement. His first wife, Dorothy, passed away in 1982, and Emerald married Marian Rueckert in 1984. He had been a licensed Ham radio operator for 40 years, and was a member of the Blossomland Amateur Radio Association. He was a loyal Chicago Cubs fan for most of his life. A lifelong Seventh-day Adventist, Emerald’s church membership was at Pioneer Memorial Church.
Surviving are his daughter, Lynda (Jerry) Teter of West Melbourne, Florida; five sons--Sherwood “Woody” (Dianna) Oxley of South Bend, Richard “Dick” (Roberta) Oxley of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Ronald (Vivien) Oxley of Benton Harbor, Lawrence Oxley of Berrien Springs, and Roger Oxley of Redlands, California; stepchildren Carol Rideout of Bridgman and Keith Rueckert of Ellijay, Georgia; 22 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild; sister Ruth Wilson of Colorado Springs; and brother Cloyde Oxley of Trout Creek, Montana.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Dorothy, in 1982, and his second wife, Marian, in 2007.
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