AGNES ELIZABETH “BUNNY” WALDRON
Bunny Waldron, age 74, passed peacefully from this earth on August 8, 2014 in Centerville, Mass. after a remarkably courageous battle against cancer. Her unfailing Catholic faith kept her optimistic to the end and prepared to meet her Lord. Christened Agnes Elizabeth Waldron, Bunny was born in Boston, Mass. on September 24, 1939, the daughter and first child of Albert Leo Waldron Jr. and Agnes J. (Cuddy) Waldron. Her parents, raised in Boston and Dedham, moved to the country and Bunny was raised in Medfield, Mass. A child of the outdoors, she enjoyed running along the banks of the brook in the “Dingle Dell,” the early settlers’ name of her home in Medfield, with her dog Rusty, and she especially loved chasing turtles and snakes by threading a rowboat through the lily pads at Boggestowe Brook in Millis. An athlete in field hockey and basketball, she graduated from Medfield High School and went to study at Bridgewater Teachers College. After completing her degree in Physical Education, she briefly entered the convent of the Sisters of Charity in Burlington, Vermont, but decided to pursue her devotion to the Lord as a layperson; she was forever after closely allied with the order, and she had a special devotion to Mary, Mother of Christ. She taught physical education in Middletown, Connecticut and earned a master’s in theology. In search of medical treatments for a chronic condition, she made her home in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1971 and stayed for more than 30 years, where she was a faithful praticant in the charismatic movement. Estranged at times from her birth family, and despite a life filled with many challenges, she created a family within her church and lived her last few years on Cape Cod, the scene of many happy childhood memories, when she walked the beaches of Truro and Wellfleet pulling shells from the strand and chased blue-claw crabs in the brackish water pools on Mishaum Point. She was preceded in death by her loving mother, Agnes Josephine Cuddy Waldron Johnson, in 2013; her father, Albert Leo Waldron Jr. in 1980; and her stepfather, Carl Herbert Johnson, in 2004. She is survived by her only sibling, Joy Waldron of Santa Fe, New Mexico; two nieces, April Prewitt of Concord, Mass. and Ellen McBride of Rocklin, California; and one nephew, Logan Roots of Georgetown, Texas. Deepest gratitude to Father George Harrison of Corpus Christi Parish in Sandwich, who visited her daily to bring the Holy Sacrament and guided her spiritually through her long struggle. Thanks to her dear friends Wende, Sheila, Denise, Jane and many others on Cape Cod who visited her faithfully. Thanks to her Edmonton friends who prayed with her by phone and letter to the end. The family is grateful to the compassionate and caring physicians, nurses and staff at both McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich and Cape Regency Rehab Center in Centerville. A private ceremony will be held at Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield at the family plot where she will be interred alongside her parents. Bunny now rests in the arms of the angels.