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Obituaries 2011
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Thursday January 13, 2011 05:09 by R.I.P.
This thread marks the passing in 2011 of folks who have spent their lives struggling for peace and justice (and others). Nun who fought nuclear testing dies from injuries suffered in accident
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Franciscan Sister Rosemary Lynch, who prayerfully
called for the end of nuclear weapons testing in the Nevada desert for
more than 33 years, died Jan. 9, four days after being hit by a car
during an early morning walk. She was 93.
The accident occurred as she and a friend, Franciscan Sister Klaryta
Antoszewska, were nearing the end of their daily walk through their
central Las Vegas neighborhood. Police said the nun was hit by a car
backing out of a driveway. She was knocked to the ground and struck
her head on the pavement.
She had been in a coma after the accident and was moved from a local
hospital to a hospice center, where she died.
As of Jan. 11, Las Vegas police were continuing their investigation of
the accident.
Sister Rosemary, who co-founded Pace e Bene, an international network
focusing on education in justice, social change and nonviolence, began
visiting the Nevada National Security Site, formerly the Nevada Test
Site, in 1977 after moving to Las Vegas. She continued to visit the
site until the accident that caused her death, friends said.
"Sister Rosemary was the symbol of the resistance to nuclear testing,"
said Sister Megan Rice, a member of the Sisters of the Holy Child and
a fellow staff member of the Nevada Desert Experience, which
coordinates prayerful witnesses at the test site.
"That initial contemplative stance she took, being out there and
contemplating the desert and being aware of the very real atom bomb
being exploded, caught on and people came eventually in the
thousands," Sister Megan told Catholic News Service.
Sister Rosemary's awareness of what she considered the dangers of
nuclear testing began to grow after a long career of teaching and
service to her religious congregation, the Sisters of St. Francis of
Penance and Christian Charity.
She took final vows in 1934 and spent 26 years as a teacher and
administrator in Catholic schools in Los Angeles and Havre, Mont. In
1960, she was sent to Rome by her congregation where she was elected
to the central leadership team. She worked for the congregation for 15
years and stayed in Rome until 1977 working for an international
education association.
Her role with the congregation required that she visit some of the
order's provinces around the world. During the visits, she came
face-to-face with people living in destitute poverty, suffering from
leprosy and experiencing severe hunger. Sister Rosemary's experience
influenced how she viewed the affluence of Western culture and led to
her commitment to work for social change.
Returning to the United States in 1977, Sister Rosemary settled in Las
Vegas, where she joined the staff of the Franciscan Center. Her work
on ending nuclear weapons testing began when she and a group of
Franciscans and other peace activists visited the test site to
remember the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the 20th anniversary
of a peaceful demonstration by Quakers calling for the end of nuclear
testing in 1957.
Sister Rosemary returned to the site for several years and eventually
made friends with test site workers. In 1981, she began meeting with a
group of Franciscans to plan the observance of the 800th anniversary
of the birth of St. Francis of Assisi. They organized what became
known as the Lenten Desert Experience, a 40-day retreat at the test
site to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons and to begin to
reverse social injustice.
The effort led to the formation of the Nevada Desert Experience. The
group continues nonviolent, prayerful vigils during Lent and at other
times of the year.
Funeral arrangements were pending Jan. 11.
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Jump To Comment: 1Jocotepec, Mexico -- Joe lived awhile down the lake. We would visit him of an afternoon, Vi and I, and find him, a bear of a man, bearded mountain Buddha, writing on the porch of his one-room place in Ajijic. Always he wore his old fishing vest, in which I suspect he was born, and sometimes he carried a small laptop in one of its pockets. Usually we adjourned to the living room, which was also the bedroom, dining room, and salon. He would fetch bottles of local red, or make the jalapeño martinis he invented -- there was a bit of mad chemist in him -- and we would talk for hours of art, music, the news, politics, and people. Especially people. Sometimes he grabbed one of the guitars from the wall and sang blues, at which he was good. I guess growing up dirt poor in West Virginia puts that kind of music in you.
Joe could fool you. He talked slow and Southern, lacked pretensions, and you could talk to him for weeks without realizing how very damned smart he was. One day we dropped in and he said he had just found that he had cancer. It went fast. He died Saturday.
Most who have heard of him have done so through his books, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, and Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir. Deer Hunting is a curious work, a sleeper, that you can read the first time without noticing that it deserves a high place in American letters. He tells of that huge class of unnoticed people in America, the white underclass of a thousand small towns and countryscapes, of Winchester, Virginia where he lived and by implication to Waldorf, Maryland and King George, Virginia and, well, all over the Carolinas and the Cumberland Plateau and … everywhere. America thinks it is a middle-class country. It isn’t. Joe knew.
Coninued.....
http://www.joebageant.com/