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Obituary for Anne G. Keidel

Anne G.  Keidel
Anne Gordon Keidel passed away Monday, July 4th, at her home in West Newton, Massachusetts. She was 72 and died peacefully after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. At the time of her death she had retired from a theological research affiliation with Boston College. She had recently finished her manuscript for a book on a fourth-century Christian priest important for mainstream Catholic Christianity’s foundational teachings.
Anne was born to Justine Lewis Keidel and Albert Keidel, Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland, where she graduated from the Calvert School and Garrison Forest School. She graduated from Centenary College, where she was on the varsity field hockey team and during which time she converted to Catholicism from her baptismal membership in the Episcopal Church.
Anne finished her undergraduate education with a BA in history from Boston University before earning a registered nursing degree from Vanderbilt University. She practiced nursing for a year in Philadelphia before shifting her career to follow her strong interest in Catholic theology, with a side interest in Japanese Buddhism.
After studying Japanese and visiting Japan, Anne moved to the ancient city of Kamakura, Japan, where she lived in a group facility with Jesuit priests, whom she joined in their study and meditation training with a Buddhist master priest. Returning to the United States after five years, she completed two masters’ degrees in theology, one in San Antonio, Texas and one in Toronto. Her 1984 Toronto Master of Philosophy Thesis was entitled: “The De instituto christiano [Gregory of Nyssa] and its ascetical teaching”.
She then moved to the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany to prepare for her Ph.D., which she received in 1997. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled “Discerning the path of life: discernment according to Basil of Caesarea and Ignatius of Loyola with a comparison of their teaching.”
Returning to the United States, she settled in West Newton, where she began working on a book focused more on Basil of Caesarea than was possible for her Ph.D. dissertation. At her death the book manuscript was with Liturgical Press at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Its title is: Basil of Caesarea and the Path of Life: A Theology of Discernment.
In addition to her research, she was also active in her local Catholic parish – organizing and leading a theology book study group. She also collected Japanese prints and was especially fond of prints by the early 20th century artist Hiroshi Yoshida. She used her Japanese language skills and her knowledge of Japanese prints to work as a volunteer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, helping catalogue and research their Japanese print collection.
Anne was full of energy and intellectual curiosity, with a special love of foreign travel and summer vacations on the Penobscot Bay in Maine, where she indulged her hobby collecting oil and water color paintings of Maine coastal settings and related nautical subjects. She is survived by her brother Christian Keidel and his wife Franny Keyes Keidel of Devon, Pennsylvania and by her brother Albert Keidel of Bethesda, Maryland, as well as by nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held Tuesday, July 12 at 10AM, in St. John the Evangelist Church, 9 Glen Rd. Wellesley. Visiting hours Monday from 4-7PM at the Henry J. Burke & Sons Funeral Home, 56 Washington St. Wellesley. Interment will be private.

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