[Magdalen] List sibs departed from this life

[Jon Egger]

My mother called me Weasel or Skeezics when I was growing up.  My dad
called me Texas Jon. (Wha?) My sister is known to everyone she knows as
Jeannie.  I call her Jean. My folks called her Gina.

Go figure!

Grace and peace,
brud

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:

> I continue to mourn her loss too. She was a great inspiration to me in work
> with homeless people, and she (and her administrative assistant) were shot
> in the church office of St. Peter's, Ellicott City, Maryland by a homeless
> insane man who felt that the St. Peter's food pantry had given him less
> than he normally received. It was devastating for the church. I went to a
> one-year memorial service for her at St. Peter's, and asked Bishop Sutton
> and her sisters and brother for permission to start something called the
> Mother Mary Marguerite Kohn Initiative to develop special approaches to
> keeping guns out of the hands of people with recorded psychological
> problems. The Bishop was receptive to the idea, but the family said that
> her life was so much more than the way she died, and they did not want her
> name to be remembered for her death.
>
> Priests all over the Maryland/Virginia/West Virginia region were devastated
> by her death, and it was a reminder to those of us who work with food
> pantries and homeless people that such work is not without danger.
>
> May she rest in peace, and rise in glory.
>
> Georgia+
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:52 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mary Marguerite agreed to be my spiritual director while I was in
> > chaplaincy (I was required to have one then, and I couldn't believe my
> luck
> > that she agreed to take me). We were very close for a time, then she left
> > Boston for a church job in NY State, then on to Vermont, then Maryland,
> > where she was killed. I continue to mourn her loss.
> >
> > On Monday, October 26, 2015, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > She was shot in her church office by a homeless man.
> > > -M
> > >
> > >
> >
>