dead Sister Wendys' Odyssey

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Possibly a contender for Last Word 

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Very sad, a really nice person it seemed. She almost died a couple of times lately, as she was on oxygen full time (in a different way from everyone else).

 

Still, I hope it's not going to be the third non-obit that Spade and I share. Spade would go to the DDP top if a QO arrives.

Wybourne was in her 60s.

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While we await a QO for Cathy, mildly interesting factoid: she wrote a book with Cary Elwes' great-uncle, who was a monk himself.

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A Vermont nun who served as a college president, worked in Washington to ban land mines and served as a deputy commissioner of the state Department of Corrections has died.

Sister Janice Ryan died at a residential care facility in Winooski on March 30. She was 85.

From 1979 to 1996, Ryan served as president of Burlington's Trinity College, which closed in 2000 after financial difficulties. After leaving Trinity, Ryan became Project Director of the Catholic Campaign to Ban Landmines in Washington.

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Sister Kathleen Osbelt, who founded Francis House in Syracuse over three decades ago, died Wednesday, according to a remembrance posted on the organization’s website.

Osbelt died after a “courageous battle with cancer,” the organization announced Wednesday. She was 71.

In 1991, Osbelt founded Francis House, which provides a home and extended family for people with terminal illnesses. She had seen a need for a place outside of hospitals for people to spend their final days.

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Just been reading about the exploits of Sister Madonna Buder, known as the Iron Nun and still running in triathlons at the age of 92.