February 23, 1948 - September 11, 2025

Dear friends, 

Sydney Russell, a beloved member of the Amsterdam Center of the Fellowship of Friends, completed her task on September 11,  2025, from complications due to kidney failure.

Sydney was born on February 23, 1948. She was 77 years old on her last birthday. She joined the Fellowship on October 12, 1973. She supported many centers over the 52 years, including Apollo, Atlanta, London, New York, Paris, and San Francisco. Her last decades were spent in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Sydney was devoted to the school and the Teacher. She was known for her ability to help her friends in many ways along their spiritual journey. She inspired many in the years she spent transforming the suffering of her physical body.

Sydney loved poetry, theater, and literature, and her zest for life was a keynote of her being.

She will be missed.

On behalf of all who knew you, we give thanks. 

The Elysian Society

For this is thy hour, O soul,

thy free flight into the wordless.

– Walt Whitman