May 13
Monsignor William A. Kerr Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 23:24 · 119 words · print
Monsignor William A. Kerr, a leading human rights figure whom serial killer Ted Bundy sought out to be his spiritual counselor on death row, died Wednesday. He was 68.
Kerr was hospitalized May 3 after suffering a stroke as he concluded celebrating a Mass.
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Kerr in 1978 administered last rites to a woman bludgeoned to death in her sorority house near the Florida State campus by Bundy, who later turned to the priest for spiritual counseling. Kerr last spoke with Bundy two days before the condemned man died in Florida's electric chair in January 1989.
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A funeral is tentatively scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the St. Thomas More Co-Cathedral, where the Monsignor fell ill earlier this month.
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