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Not So Far Afield Vol 21 No 1 – March/April 2012
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- Created on 29 February 2012
- Last Updated on 12 July 2012
- Published on 29 February 2012
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- Not So Far Afield Vol 21 No 1 – March/April 2012
- My Brothers
- MAC 2014 Coordinator
- Affiliate Funding Thermometer Shows a Warming Trend
- God is Gracious
- Reaching Out to Everyone
- Reviving, Refreshing and Restoring
- Maryknoll’s Renaissance Man
- Walking Humbly With God
- Affiliates in Haiti
- M—O—P
- Medical Mission says “You are not forgotten. You matter.”
- You Can’t Come In Here
- Themes for Not So Far Afield 2012
- Rosa Nery Fuentes Suárez
- Maria Ursone Stewart
- New Members of the Maryknoll Affiliate Family
- News from the Knoll
- All Pages
Maria Ursone Stewart
Maria Stuart teaching Buddhist monks in Thailand
Maria Ursone Stewart of Lakewood, NJ, died on December 6th, 2011 after an extensive illness. Her family is especially thankful to VanDyke Hospice for their loving care. The daughter of the late Frank D. Ursone, M.D. and Clementina (D’Angelo) Ursone, she was born and raised in Norfolk, CT. Maria graduated from Tufts University in 1956. After raising her children, she then worked in the Financial Aid field at several institutions of higher learning. She volunteered with CONTACT, Al Anon, a variety of hotlines. Maria had been a Maryknoll Affiliate with the New Jersey Chapter and for the past ten years volunteered in Africa, Thailand and Bangladesh with Maryknoll. She is predeceased by a son, Norman Thomas Stewart, Jr. and is survived by one brother, John Ursone, three daughters, Maria Stewart Moscaritolo, Tracey Stewart and Lisa Stewart Glen, one son, John Stewart, and fourteen grandchildren. A Memorial Mass was celebrated on December 17, 2011, at the Lady Chapel, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.
Father Bill McIntire MM and other Maryknoll Missioner remembered Maria at masses in Bangladesh. Father McIntire wrote, “Our dear Maria came and taught three terms at the ‘Bacha’ School.”
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