[Aztlan] Kathryn Josserand

[ewray39362 at aol.com]

Hello Listeros.  The following is a very sad message from Kathryn's brother: 
I am sending this to you because I believe that you would want to know 
about this situation and would be concerned.  Possibly you received 
this news already.  Kathryn died last night in Palenque Mexico.  She 
evidently suffered a brain hemorrhage and passed quickly.  She was 64.  
She will be buried in the Hopkins family plot at a church in Virginia. 
Details of the burial and a service in Louisiana are still undetermined 
but expected to not happen for some time since she must be returned 
from Mexico and the immediate family are so far away and in different 
locations.  I am departing in the morning to go to Mother's.  Merry 
will arrive there on the weekend.  I will return on Monday and Merry 
will stay with Mother.  Mother is 89 and this must be the hardest thing 
that a mother has to deal with.  There are many family members living 
near her and they are helping her now as they always do.

Kathryn and Nick were doing their typical career activities of taking 
grad students into the Indian villages of Mexico to set them up to do 
their grad work.  They arrived in Mexico about five weeks ago on June 
11 and were scheduled to return home next Wednesday.  Kathryn was doing 
what she loved.  I had an email from her just a few days ago that was 
very positive and she was proud that she was being given co-authorship 
on a paper to be presented by a colleague.  Also recently she had been 
awarded a Fulbright fellowship to do field work in Guatemala beginning 
in January of 2007.  They had plans to rent a three-bedroom home in 
Antigua so that there would be room for visits from family and friends 
while they lived there for six months or more.  I was looking forward 
to a visit.  I last saw Kathryn in March when she and Nick stayed with 
me while they attended the Maya meetings at UT.  We had talked on the 
phone just before she left for Mexico and she sent me several emails 
from Mexico.  I sent her an email just this past Sunday night.  I hope 
she saw it.  I will greatly miss her presence in my life.

Bud
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