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John Joseph Lucey
1953 - 1985
He was surrounded with friends, family and a remarkable care-partner. His younger brother summed up John's gift when he spoke at John's funeral:
"Tonight I want to thank John for two lessons. Before he was twenty, John adopted a gay life-style. Every family can accept, superficially, the sociological challenges of their generation. John taught us superficially is not good enough. Divorce, Pro-Life, Equality - these are issues we tend to don and discard like changing fashions. As long as we are at arms length from these issues we needn't give them more serious consideration than the latest movie releases. But John made us, his friends and family, take one issue - homosexuality. He made us examine it closely and made us come to a real emotional agreement with that one issue. Not simply a rational understanding, but a personal one. Our education, an education that has taken over ten years, was a gift from John."
John was a constant reminder that we live our lives in a very narrow range of the spectrum available to us. His physical traveling reminded us of the need to move and grow emotionally and spiritually.
This is a picture of John and his partner, Mike. John's mother, Rose, is shown sitting under a tree near where John is burried, on the land he loved so much.
"see ya, John...."
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