Dolores Kay Beesley
May 8, 1939 ~ November 17, 2020
Our dear mother, Dolores Kay Beesley, joined the angels in heaven after struggling with Alzheimer’s, on November 17, 2020 in the comfort of her home. This beautiful soul leaves a giant hole in our hearts and in our lives. Kay was born in Boise, Idaho on May 8, 1939. During her high school years she met Jerry P. Beesley, whom she later married and they had six children.
Kay enjoyed many things in life: art, music, nature, animals and especially family. Kay was a devout Catholic, which helped her stay grounded and gave her guidance throughout her life. In her later years, she was blessed with the gift of grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom she loved dearly.
The Esther Crumbly Fund Helps 450 Families
By Rick Loy - Staff Writer | Dec 23, 2020
Esther Crumbly food giveaway held at the Catholic Church in New Martinsville.
The Esther Crumbly Fund Board of Directors held a food and gift giveaway for nearly 450 families on Friday, December 18, 2020 at the Catholic Church Klug Hall in New Martinsville from 9 am -12 pm. Chairman Ephram Wade said, “We’ve been doing this since 1980 and it grows bigger every year with donations from churches, parishioners, individuals, businesses, and professional communities. We could not offer this every year without all the volunteers. So many people are willing to volunteer their time to help our families in the community. Co-chairman Carolyn Yoho, Community Resources Coordinator Lisa Gonzales and Co-coordinator Denise Klug, Nancy Yoho from the Salvation Army (Angel Tree), Diana Vell with Catholic charities (Secret Santa), and many others are so instrumental in making it all possible”.
December 23, 2020
(BEDFORD) – Bruce Ervin of First Christian Church in Bedford is now the chairman of the board at the Men’s Warming Center.
The shelter began as a ministry of St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church and the Salvation Army, with Father Rick of St. Vincent providing much of the vision, leadership, and heavy lifting.
“In my 40 years of ministry I have worked extensively with men and women experiencing homelessness. When one of our homeless neighbors began sleeping out in my churches parking lot in 2018, I knew I had to join Father Rick in moving our ministry with homeless men to a deeper level,” said Ervin. That led to the hiring of shelter staff that fall to the formation of the Stone City Alliance for Recovery and Hope (SARAH). Ervin serves on the Board of Directors.
Mrs. BaCote
As a student at Virginia Union University, Mamye Edmondson BaCote took part in the lunch counter sit-ins led by VUU students to end whites-only, sit-down service at restaurants and lunch counters in Downtown.
Later in life, she would help make the laws impacting peopleâs lives during her 12 years representing Newport News in the Virginia General Assembly.
âShe really believed in public service and wanted to make a difference,â said her son, Theodore BaCote III.
âShe devoted her life to our community,â Congressman Robert C. âBobbyâ Scott of Newport News stated. âShe was able to bring about real change.â
Local View: Add racism to church s sex-abuse scandals
“Too often the Catholic Church uses Native American communities to hide pedophile priests,” Phoenix attorney Robert Pastor said.
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David McGrath
Environmental racism was a term coined to describe historical tendencies in the U.S. to store toxic waste on Native American reservations or build pollution-spewing incinerators in Latino or African-American neighborhoods.
An analogous term may now be required for the Catholic Church’s systematic dumping of sexually abusive priests into minority communities: Racist diocesan exile? Clergy abuse racism?
That’s because, as more information has been extracted through recent lawsuits against dioceses and investigations of abusive priests, it has become clear that the church often banished sex offenders to minority parishes as a way of burying them.