Meet Our Staff
Lois Kaarre, Director of Music
Lois Kaarre played her first church service at the age of 12 at St. John Lutheran Church in West Branch, Michigan, and has played nearly every Sunday since then. She has served as Music Director at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Ann Arbor, University Lutheran Chapel in Ann Arbor, Concord Lutheran Church in Rochester, NY, and now has served All Saints’ since 2003. Ms. Kaarre has taught piano and at Oakland University since 2002, where she also accompanies faculty and student performances and the OU choirs. She had previously done the same at Eastern Michigan University for many years.
She left EMU in 2000 to work on a doctorate in Chamber Music and Accompanying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY for two years, returning to southeast Michigan to work at Oakland. Her master’s degree in piano performance is from Eastern Michigan University, and her bachelor’s degree in piano, church music, and religion, is from Concordia College in Ann Arbor. She has maintained an active performance schedule, largely as a collaborative pianist, having played frequent recitals at OU, EMU, and on the All Saints’ Recital Series, as well as the University of Michigan, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (where she chaired the piano department for many years), Michigan Opera Theatre, the Ohio Light Opera, Marshall University, and a recital at Carnegie Hall with a competition-winning soprano. To combat idleness she regularly teaches a full complement of private students of all ages and abilities, and enjoys a bit of travel as time permits.
Norma Warner, Parish Administrator
Our parish administrator, Norma Warner, although having lived in Michigan since 1979, will always be a New Englander. Born and raised in Rhode Island, her then huband’s job relocated them to Manchester, New Hampshire, then Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. She was then brought “kicking and screaming” to Detroit. She married Gary Warner in 1984 and instantly became the mother of three children. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1985. Two grandchildren were added to the family in the spring of 2006 (Mason William Benedict and Ella Josephine Warner); two more grandsons arrived in 2007 (Brooks Timothy Warner and Carson James Benedict).
On her arrival to Michigan, her background in the legal profession landed her a job at a large law firm in Southfield, and she stayed in this field until 1995, moving among different law firms and spending some time as administrative assistant to Charles Levin, then a Michigan Supreme Court Justice. For the last thirteen years of her law career, she ended up at the law firm where she started in 1979, holding the position of Employee Benefits paralegal. In the spring of 1995 her father was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. When her daughter got out of school for summer break, they went to Florida to stay with him until he passed six weeks later. Coming off that experience caused her to look closely at life and make some huge changes. She quit her law firm job and started working at a non-profit supported employment agency as a job coach. Within a short time a promotion to office administrator then led to the position of program director for the agency. With eight years experience she then decided to open her own supported placement agency working with people with disabilities. Gary is now taking over that company as Norma spends her days here with us at All Saints’.
Rosie Glispie, Housekeeper
Rosie was born in Hollendale, Mississippi. She has three sisters (one of which is her identical twin) and two brothers. At the age of 12 she moved to Chicago where she met her husband Augusta. All of her five children were born in Chicago. Rosa, 22, is studying to be a special education teacher at Delta College in Mississippi; Augusta, 21, and Antonio, 20 live here with Rosie, as does Jasmine, 16, and Shedrick, 15. Jasmine is a junior at Pontiac Central where she plays varsity basketball. Shedrick is a sophomore at Northern High School. Rosie moved back to Mississippi after her husband died in 1994 to take care of her sister who had just undergone heart surgery. However, in order to provide a better life with more opportunities for employment, she decided to join her brother in Michigan and came to Pontiac in 1999. She has worked at the Rising Star Day Care and also was a cook at Bound Together before taking the position at All Saints.' You can always count on Rosie to greet you with a smile and an uplifting, positive attitude. We are lucky to have her with us.
She left EMU in 2000 to work on a doctorate in Chamber Music and Accompanying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY for two years, returning to southeast Michigan to work at Oakland. Her master’s degree in piano performance is from Eastern Michigan University, and her bachelor’s degree in piano, church music, and religion, is from Concordia College in Ann Arbor. She has maintained an active performance schedule, largely as a collaborative pianist, having played frequent recitals at OU, EMU, and on the All Saints’ Recital Series, as well as the University of Michigan, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (where she chaired the piano department for many years), Michigan Opera Theatre, the Ohio Light Opera, Marshall University, and a recital at Carnegie Hall with a competition-winning soprano. To combat idleness she regularly teaches a full complement of private students of all ages and abilities, and enjoys a bit of travel as time permits.
Norma Warner, Parish Administrator
Our parish administrator, Norma Warner, although having lived in Michigan since 1979, will always be a New Englander. Born and raised in Rhode Island, her then huband’s job relocated them to Manchester, New Hampshire, then Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. She was then brought “kicking and screaming” to Detroit. She married Gary Warner in 1984 and instantly became the mother of three children. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1985. Two grandchildren were added to the family in the spring of 2006 (Mason William Benedict and Ella Josephine Warner); two more grandsons arrived in 2007 (Brooks Timothy Warner and Carson James Benedict).
On her arrival to Michigan, her background in the legal profession landed her a job at a large law firm in Southfield, and she stayed in this field until 1995, moving among different law firms and spending some time as administrative assistant to Charles Levin, then a Michigan Supreme Court Justice. For the last thirteen years of her law career, she ended up at the law firm where she started in 1979, holding the position of Employee Benefits paralegal. In the spring of 1995 her father was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. When her daughter got out of school for summer break, they went to Florida to stay with him until he passed six weeks later. Coming off that experience caused her to look closely at life and make some huge changes. She quit her law firm job and started working at a non-profit supported employment agency as a job coach. Within a short time a promotion to office administrator then led to the position of program director for the agency. With eight years experience she then decided to open her own supported placement agency working with people with disabilities. Gary is now taking over that company as Norma spends her days here with us at All Saints’.
Rosie Glispie, Housekeeper
Rosie was born in Hollendale, Mississippi. She has three sisters (one of which is her identical twin) and two brothers. At the age of 12 she moved to Chicago where she met her husband Augusta. All of her five children were born in Chicago. Rosa, 22, is studying to be a special education teacher at Delta College in Mississippi; Augusta, 21, and Antonio, 20 live here with Rosie, as does Jasmine, 16, and Shedrick, 15. Jasmine is a junior at Pontiac Central where she plays varsity basketball. Shedrick is a sophomore at Northern High School. Rosie moved back to Mississippi after her husband died in 1994 to take care of her sister who had just undergone heart surgery. However, in order to provide a better life with more opportunities for employment, she decided to join her brother in Michigan and came to Pontiac in 1999. She has worked at the Rising Star Day Care and also was a cook at Bound Together before taking the position at All Saints.' You can always count on Rosie to greet you with a smile and an uplifting, positive attitude. We are lucky to have her with us.