Marie Kent, one of the founding members of LC/NA, dies
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It is with sadness tempered by our shared faith and the comfort of resurrection hope in Jesus Christ that we report to you the death of Marie Kent at the Mifflin Care Center in Mansfield, Ohio, on Friday morning, December 11. She died in her sleep, ending a long and difficult battle with cancer.

Marie was one of the six original founders of Lutherans Concerned / North America and a driving force in Iowa for LGBT equality. We will remember her passion and determination as we continue on the path toward full inclusion in the church for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities that she helped set us on in 1974.

A visitation for Marie's family and friends will be held on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 from 5–8 pm at the Wise Funeral Home in Bucyrus, Ohio. A service celebrating her life and eternal life will take place at the funeral home on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 10:30 am, Rev. Matthew Wheeler of First Lutheran Church, Galion, Ohio, officiating. Interment will follow at the Nevada Cemetery in Nevada, Ohio.

Following the committal, friends and family will gather for a luncheon at the congregation Marie attended early in life, St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Bucyrus.

Please keep her family in your prayers as they mourn Marie's death.

We will include an article about Marie's life and contributions in the Spring edition of the Concord, the Winter edition being past the point where that is possible.