Judith A. O'Connell

O'Connell, Judith Ann passed away on 01/13/12 She was born in Ogdensburg, NY to William Bernard and Ann Peters O'Connell and had one sister, Peggy. A graduate of St.Mary's Academy and of LeMoyne College, she did graduate work at Marquette University. She worked for many years in Human Resources. She had two daughters and a grandson from her 1st marriage: Peggy (Margaret Ann of Portland, OR) and Shannon Marie and Dolan Harrington of Richmond. She later married her college sweetheart, H. Peter Pudner and they celebrated 25 years of marriage. Peter would become her care-partner (Alzheimers), maintaining to the end that she was "the best thing that ever happened to" him. She had numerous kin by marriage into the Pudner family. There will be a mass, and , on February 11th, a memorial gathering in Richmond (804-513-5117)). Judy was an Oblate of Mount Saviour Monastery, Pine City, NY 14871 and would have welcomed any donations to that community in memoriam.

"Death is not extinguishing the light

but putting out the lamp

because the dawn has come"

Rabindranath Tagore