June 27, 2012
“In loving memory of Katherine Sobun Thanas, Roshi”

Adam Tebbe at Sweeping Zen offers a thoughtful obituary for Katherine Thanas:

Kind. Considerate. Radiant. Playful. These are words people used to describe Katherine Sobun Thanas when I told them I’d be doing this piece on her. Katherine passed away at 9:45 this morning at the ripe age of 85, this after being hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz (having slipped in to a coma stemming from a serious head injury earlier in the week).

via Sweeping Zen: “In loving memory of Katherine Sobun Thanas, Roshi”

 

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